Jun 18 2010
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs Keep Coming To Charlotte
16% of Charlotte’s employers expect to hire more workers during the third quarter according to a recent Manpower, Inc. survey–a 4% improvement over the same period last year. At the same time, we have also seen some great new job announcements in the Charlotte area in recent weeks:
- The American Red Cross plans to hire 450 new employees in their new call center.
- Citco Fund Services plans to create 258 jobs over the next five years at an average salary of $78,000.
- Morgan Stanley plans to hire 50 new people on top of the 35 already here in Charlotte for its private banking operation.
- Supermetal, a Canadian metal fabricator, plans to open a plant in York County, SC with up to 200 new jobs in the next five years. They will
- Jo-Mar Spinning plans to startup a spinning and twisting operation in Belmont which will generate some 100 new jobs.
- Advanced Textile Solutions plans to hire 127 people when it opens a manufacturing facility in Caldwell County to produce bullet-proof vests for the military and upholstery for airline seats.
- General Mills plans to establish a lab operation at the North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis.
- Magna Composites (a Canadian auto-parts company) plans to create 327 new jobs in the coming four years at three Charlotte-area plants with an average pay of over $33,000 + benefits.
- Clearwater Paper plans to build a new factory in Shelby that will create some 250 jobs over five years.
- Ally Bank, NACA, Zenta Mortgage Services and Citgo have announced a plan to create 2,400 new jobs in the next five years.
- Intelagrid, a smart-grid technology start-up copany in Virginia, has decided to put its software development division in Charlotte, beginning with a five person office and hoping to grow to a 12 person office within the next two years.
Chief Executive Magazine’s annual Best & Worst States survey, which measures business conditions in all 50 states ranked North Carolina as #2 in their list of top five states in which to do business. (North Carolina has improved its ranking from third and fourth place in 2008 and 2007 respectively.)
With Charlotte well-positioned for a strong comeback in terms of employment, housing in Charlotte’s metro area can’t but be positively impacted by all this great news!
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