A major Kia Motors supplier has signed a deal with Georgia’s Quick Start training program to prepare hundreds of production workers.
Korea's Sewon, state and local officials attended the agreement ceremony which will train upwards of 600 workers for their Lagrange plant.
Sean McMillan, director of Quick Start's western operations says the signing is a positive step in a gloomy jobs market:
"In the times that we're living in now, with the economy being front and center, and a lot of negativity that's being heard by the public, [it's] a great, great ray of hope for many people in this community to have an opportunity to go back to work."The firm plans to open the 420,000 square-foot factory in April. The plant will make chassis and body parts for the Kia car plant, in nearby West Point.
Trainees will learn the necessary production line skills at West Georgia Technical College.
The Kia plant is slated to begin production this fall.
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