WARSAW — New high-paying jobs are coming to our area. A Warsaw orthopedics company announced Tuesday it is adding 100 positions over the next few years. But finding qualified workers may be an issue.

The governor says it's a growing concern for a number of high-paying companies in the state. The jobs are there, but the workers aren't.

“I think we hit a home run here,” said OrthoPediatrics CEO Nick Deeter.

Deeter established OrthoPediatrics just two years ago. It designs orthopedic devices for children.

“As we got into the marketplace, it's actually growing faster than we ever planned,” he told WSBT News.

It now operates out of a small building and is already running out of space. So it plans to build a new $5 million facility in downtown Warsaw and add about a hundred jobs.

“We have a number of scientists that we're going to need, engineers, managers, along with a number of folks just as an operating entity,” Deeter said.

Gov. Mitch Daniels says the state is doing a better job holding on to those workers.

“That's still a concern, but increasingly the concern of companies like this is, ‘I've got the jobs, I’ve got high-paying jobs, I’m having trouble finding workers, young or maybe not so young, who are prepared,’” Daniels said.

So the governor says there needs to be an increased emphasis on math and science in public schools.

And he says other workers will need more training in the future to take advantage of opportunities such as the ones at OrthoPediatrics.

“We need to reach more of today's workers and say, ‘Come on back to Ivy Tech or IU-South Bend for the kind of training that will help you step up in income and in life,’” Daniels said.

OrthoPediatrics hopes to have the new facility completed in the next 18 months. It will likely ask the city council for a tax phase-in to help offset costs. But the mayor says the city should get that money back and then some once the facility is completed.