In a tight market for skills, the best way to source leaders is to grow your own.

When we take people from operations and put them into leadership roles, how do they develop the new skills they need?

Leadership, responsibility, safety, communication, compliance, technology, systems....all these can be taught or fumbled through.

How fast do you want your people up to speed and what is the potential cost of them not knowing what is expected?

Train and mentor your supervisors and engineers to be leaders.