Thu, Dec 01, 2011
North Carolina Plants Say Hiring Will Continue Into 2012
A flurry of orders announced during the Paris and Dubai Airshows
this year is bringing an uptick in employment at some GE Aviation
Facilities in the US. Cathay Pacific, Air China, Republic Airways,
LAN, Garuda Indonesia, Lufthansa, Emirates and Cargolux all had
deals with GE announced over just three days of the Dubai show, and
the manufacturer will be hiring through 2012.
In North Carolina, GE Aviation spokesman Rick Kennedy tells Star
News Online the company has already added about 20 workers at its
Castle Hayne plant in the last six months, and plans 10 to 15 more
after the first of the year. Part of the reason the growth is
expected to continue is a deal with Emirates Airlines to provide
GE90 engines for 50 more Boeing 777s. GE said at the time, "The
engine order list price and service agreement is valued at
approximately $6 billion (USD) over the life of the contract."
The Castle Hayne plant builds parts for the GE90, and also for
the GEnx powering the 787 Dreamliner, and the CFM56 used on the
737.
Just up the road in Durham, NC, Ge Aviation's plant manager
there, Michael Wagner, says his facility has also seen job growth
keeping up with demand for parts for engines used in the Boeing 787
and 747-8. He tells the Durham Herald-Sun that building five GEnx
engines a week "is significant just because a few years ago, we
weren’t shipping anything. An engine of that size for a wide
body, at that rate, is a tremendous challenge for extended global
supply.”
Wagner says his location has hired 70 technicians in the last
year-and-a-half, and will look at hiring more in 2012.
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