Veterans Day: Why the Stone Industry Should Be Hiring Veterans

If you're hiring fabricators in 2026 and you're not actively recruiting veterans, you're missing one of the best talent pipelines in the trade.

Why veterans excel in fabrication

Comfort with heavy equipment. Comfort with safety protocols. Comfort with chain-of-command shop workflows. The skills transfer almost directly.

Where to recruit

Hire Heroes USA, RecruitMilitary, your local VFW. Many states offer hiring tax credits for hiring recently-separated vets.

What to offer

Structured onboarding (the 90-day plan from earlier in the year). Clear advancement. Steady hours. These matter more to veterans than free coffee.

What we've seen

Three of the top-performing shops in our customer base are veteran-owned. Two more have built their fabrication teams primarily from veteran hires. Pattern recognition: it works.

Today's action

Post your next fabricator role on a veteran job board. Cost: $0. Upside: a teammate who shows up on time for a decade.