Area plumbing company vigorously tackles industry labor shortage

Finding employees is a common challenge for many businesses, especially companies in the trades. Naples-based Pro-Tec Plumbing decided to take a proactive approach to the problem, in launching its Technician Apprenticeship Program.

“The plumbing labor pool is pretty shallow,” says Brian Finger, the general manager of Pro-Tec Plumbing. “There just aren’t a lot of plumbers out there. So we came to the conclusion that one of the best ways to do this is to grow our own workforce, and in order to do that, we really needed to have an exhaustive, fully comprehensive program.”