Future Manufacturing Plant Jobs In Cleveland Tennessee (Knoxville, Chattanooga: appliances, how much)

[LauraC]

Tennessee seems to continue to attract manufacturing plants and with it, future jobs. This corporation is already here but they are going to hire more people when it's finished and, of course, there will be construction jobs to build it.

I'm posting new job info, when the hiring numbers are big, in the general Tennessee forum because so many are out of work across the state. I'm thinking that when future hirings are involved, people might want to either set up a Google news alert on the company or bookmark the company's website so they can check it periodically to see when the hiring will start.

"Whirlpool Corp. will build a 1 million sq ft manufacturing facility in Cleveland, TN, U.S. to produce built-in, premium cooking appliances. Whirlpool will invest $120 million in the new facility and expects to add about 130 new jobs to its 1500 Cleveland employees. Construction is slated to begin in the fourth quarter of 2010."

ApplianceMagazine.com*|*Whirlpool To Build $120 Million Plant in Cleveland, Tennessee

[jabogitlu]

Looks like Southeast Tennessee is the place to be. It's becoming a real economic engine for the entire state.

[hiknapster]

Latest unemployment rates:

Knoxville: 7.7

Cleveland: 9.3

Chattanooga: 8.7

I haven't checked Knox County's latest rate but it is traditionally lower than the city's.

[hiknapster]

Yes. Sure enough. Knox County's unemployment rate for July, the latest numbers, are 7.5 percent, the lowest of all the major metropolitan areas.

July 2010 County Unemployment Rates | TN.gov Newsroom

[jabogitlu]

Hik, Knoxville is definitely a good place in Tennessee for jobs right now. But you gotta admit that Chattanooga's VW plant, Bradley County's Wacker Chemical polycrystalline silicon factory (both over $1 billion investments), and now this Whirlpool plant in Cleveland, just shows how much of a magnet the Chattanooga region is becoming for high-end manufacturing. And in the long term, these projects, especially Volkswagen, will continue to pull in additional industry investment, as well as create a higher standard of life by adding to other areas such as banking and commerce.

[hiknapster]

Originally Posted by jabogitlu

Hik, Knoxville is definitely a good place in Tennessee for jobs right now. But you gotta admit that Chattanooga's VW plant, Bradley County's Wacker Chemical polycrystalline silicon factory (both over $1 billion investments), and now this Whirlpool plant in Cleveland, just shows how much of a magnet the Chattanooga region is becoming for high-end manufacturing. And in the long term, these projects, especially Volkswagen, will continue to pull in additional industry investment, as well as create a higher standard of life by adding to other areas such as banking and commerce.

Oh, I agree. And thank goodness, too. As you probably remember, we originally wanted to move to Chattanooga but didn't due to lack of jobs. That was in 2005. I think that area would have been in huge trouble if it weren't for VW and the jobs that will come along with it. But we still have the lowest unemployment rate of the largest MSAs in the state. It's a good place to be, so far.

[Fortoggie]

Well I'm a late arrival to this site but the good news is the plants you mentioned several years ago are in place and payrolls are being met. As you might expect,all things are not rosie, all these employers make heavy demands on their employees and many either quit or get fired within the first few weeks. Amazon is very pushy and expects 99.9% perfection while at the same time expects very fast work.
From what I hear things would be a lot more comfortable if the system were slowed down just 5 or 10 % and yet Bezos the owner is shown in Forbes magazine to gain in wealth on the average of around 200 million every 24 hours. [ several billion per year ] so yes there is some good news but with the working man or woman, it is only making a living, with most of the profits going upstairs.

[Fortoggie]

Meanwhile a half mile away at the VW plant about 2000 men and women work to turn out a Volkswagen Passat, ever minute, fifty nine seconds. Some of the people I talk to have adjusted their attitudes and their bodies to VW's timetable but quite a few have not been able to and thus leave within the first month.
A whole complex of suppliers have built up around the VW plant, several of them from Germany and others from other states here in the U.S. As you might expect the traffic is somewhat of problem although the state and the federal government have built major roads to accommodate the traffic.
This has been a case where the county, state and the feds have all cooperated with private enterprise to make something happen. The County alone spend 600 million to prepare the site, including installing water mains and sewers and a nearby fire station.

[jchometeam]

Plant work is not for everyone (including myself- I couldn't do it). But those who cannot do it will naturally quit, and as long as Amazon or VW can get a replacement that is willing to do the work with the demands, it is all fair game and the requirements will stay the same. If such a time comes that they cannot get a quality replacement at the salary they offer, demands will go down.

But just because alot of turnover exists doesn't mean anything unethical is going on. And of course most money is going to the executives- they have the education, are marketable enough that they can go elsewhere if they do not get the pay they want, and they have the most responsibility. Sorry, thats just a free market capitalist society.

[Fortoggie]

A little more about Cleveland, Tn [ my hometown ] it has five Church of God headquarters, all of them pentecostal but all having slightly different tenets of faith, tens of thousands of people around the country, think of Cleveland as their Mecca.
Back in the 50's the city was known as having the most millionaires of any city it's size in the south. Now it has two billionaires
and several worth 500 million or so but you want find that very widely spread as the per capita income is only about $ 23,000.00 per year.
In case you might think that the city is run over with Church of God folks; it isn't, Southern Baptist still come in with about 48% of those affiliated with a church and the United Methodist come in second.