If the compensation is good, why are they having trouble finding people? I assume that working in a refinery entails risk, is physically demanding and requires shift work. I would like to see what they actually offer to entice people into the profession.
Not just people, skilled people.
They don’t need bodies. They need people to complete specific tasks. Task that are more than common sense and inherently intuitive.
It’s all that, along with hot, dirty and occasionally hazardous. The candidates most suited to it will tend to be younger, fairly strong, physically fit and able to pass a drug test. Finding people who have all of these characteristics plus a willingness to undertake the risks inherent in working on/around gigantic stills that could blow up at any time is a bit of a challenge. It’s not the type of job that 58-year old Aunt Mavis who used to do the payroll over at Gobsmack Trucking until she got laid off is suited for, as a general proposition.