3M is laying off 40 workers from its engineering division. Most of those affected work at the firm’s Maplewood, Minnesota headquarters. 3M is also closing a hearing- and eye-protection products plant in Southbridge, Massachusetts, cutting 200 employees. The firm announced in April it was cutting 1,200 jobs globally, or 1.5% of its workforce. 3M Company, aka Minnesota Mining [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, June 28, 2009
General Electric will build a research center in Van Buren Township, Michigan, creating over 1,100 jobs. The Advanced Manufacturing & Software Technology Center will employ engineers and scientists in Michigan who were laid off by the auto industry. GE will invest $100 million in the site, and receive $60 million in state incentives. The General Electric Company, or [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Non-profit power utility Midwest ISO will hire 69 new employees in Carmel, Indiana. Some of the positions will pay $85,000. Half of the new positions will be for power system engineers; the others are software developers and database administrators. The organization is getting a $1.3 million in grants from the Indiana Economic Development Corporation. The city will [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 29, 2009
GlobalFoundries will launch a major computer chip fabrication plant in Malta, New York. M+W Zander, the architecture and construction firm building the $4.2 billion facility, is filling 40 high-tech design and construction management positions for the project. The University at Albany’s College of Nanoscale Science & Engineering will host a job fair on June 10th, at the [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 16, 2009
Research In Motion, manufacturer of the BlackBerry line of smart phones, will hire 469 North American workers to add to its global workforce of 12,000. It will hire 139 in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and in the Asia-Pacific region. In 2007, RIM employed only 6,000. RIM is adding software developers, engineers and salespeople. Rival Nokia cut 1,700 jobs [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, March 29, 2009
Over 8,000 job-seekers mobbed Honolulu Community College yesterday, to apply for 160 new jobs at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard. Organizers said the turnout was roughly twice as large as last year’s fair at Sand Island. The state’s largest industrial employer expects to fill 120 apprenticeships and 40 engineering and engineering support positions. Apprenticeships are four year work-study [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Mercedes-Benz manufacturer Daimler AG is accepting a state tax break to build a $10 million research center in Washtenaw County to develop hybrid vehicles. The Michigan Economic Growth Authority approved a $7.5 million tax credit for a research & development center near Ann Arbor. The center will employ 223, mostly engineers and technicians. State officials say the [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 12, 2009
Defense and aerospace electronics manufacturer Sensis plans a $44 million project to expand its DeWitt, New York HQ and add 300 jobs over the next three to five years. Empire State Development has awarded the company a $5 million grant for the project, that will also help retain 560 jobs. The newly created jobs have an average [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 5, 2009
Northrop Grumman, the Pentagon’s number three supplier, is cutting up to 750 jobs, mainly administrative positions in Southern California, even as it plans to hire up to 850 engineers and technicians for work on advanced weapons. The layoffs stem chiefly from the consolidation of Northrop’s aircraft-making Integrated Systems unit, headquartered in El Segundo, with the satellite-building [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 13, 2009
AeroVironment, an engineering firm best known for spy planes, solar cars and hybrid cars, is looking to fill over 100 positions. While the company’s biggest line of business is currently unmanned surveillance military aircraft. it also provides engineering services for alternative fuel cars cars and infrastructure for electric vehicles. That work is under the umbrella of [...]
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