The Limbach Company LLC plans to create 75 jobs over the next three years by expanding their fabrication facilities and regional office in Maryland. The Pittsburgh-based mechanical construction and service firm is moving effective March 1 from Lanham, Maryland to a 40,000-square-foot space in the Brick Yard Business Park in Beltsville. To assist with the cost [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 25, 2010
The U.S. Census Bureau is hiring 10,000 workers in the Maryland and District of Columbia areas. There are 9 census offices in Maryland and two in the District of Columbia hiring 400 to 500 workers each. Some employees will begin working today with preliminary groundwork and group quarters advance visits, trips to group living facilities [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, August 15, 2009
CSX Intermodal has broken ground on a Baltimore, Maryland-area rail facility that will create hundreds of new jobs. Construction of the facility, which will complete in 2011, will create 400 temporary jobs. The firm is investing $235 million. CSX Intermodal is an intermodal company with more than 1,000 employees, serving customers from origin to destination with its [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Diagnostic test manufacturer Celera will cut 80 jobs, or 13% of its labor force, in the wake of a drop in revenue in Q2. Rockville, Maryland’s Celera Corporation was formerly a business unit of the Applera Corporation, but was spun off in July 2008 to become an independent publicly traded company. Celera focuses on genetic sequencing [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Maryland’s Democratic Governor Martin O’Malley will cut $280 million from the state’s current budget, laying off 39 state employees and pulling $40 million from higher education. Another 19 vacant positions will be cut. The Old Line State’s fiscal 2010 budget is $700 million in the red. According to the US Census Bureau, Maryland has the highest median [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 9, 2009
Paul Reed Smith Guitars will lay off 30 employees, go to a four-day manufacturing week, and end its nighttime manufacturing shift. After the cuts, the firm will employ 250. PRS recently completed expanding its Maryland factory to produce acoustic guitars and amplifiers. It got a $10 million bond from the Maryland Department of Business & Economic Development. [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 29, 2009
The US Census Bureau will hire 2,500 workers for its data capture center in Baltimore, Maryland, which will process 40% of 2010 Census questionnaires. The center opens this week, but most of the workers will be hired to start in December 2009. The Census Bureau processing center in Jeffersonville, Indiana, will hire 2,000 people for the decennial [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, June 21, 2009
The Frederick County, Maryland NAACP is holding a job fair this week. The firms participating include AT&T, BP Solar International, Frederick Community College, Hagerstown Community College, Giant Food, the FBI, the Frederick Police Department and Lonza. The fair will be held from 11am to 4pm Thursday at the Frederick Church of the Brethren in Frederick. The National Association [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 18, 2009
Atlanta, Georgia’s SunTrust Banks has signed a 10-year deal with Toronto, Ontario’s Symcor, to handle check & payment processing and statement generation. As a result, SunTrust will lose 1,554 positions; but the Canadian firm will take over 1,500 of the workers. Fifty-four workers will lose their jobs. The layoffs and transfers will affect 5% of SunTrust’s [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 8, 2009
Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s Lehigh Phoenix will lay off 54 employees by August, as it consolidates its production and administrative operations. The firm also has plants in Hagerstown, Maryland and Rockaway, New Jersey. Lehigh Phoenix is the principal provider of cover components, overhead transparencies and juvenile book production for the publishing industry in the United States. It previously operated [...]
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
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