The Megafactories Are Coming. Will the Workers Show Up?

COLUMBUS, Ohio—Huge factories are sprouting up outside this capital city. Now comes the hard part: finding people to work on it.

Manufacturing jobs are hard to fill around Columbus, which has one of the lowest unemployment rates in Ohio and a thriving logistics industry that competes for the same employees. Factories in the region have thousands of vacant positions, a shortage that is causing managers to reach their employees on the production line.