General Electric is ramping up its hiring at its Van Buren Township facility, hiring more than 160 people so far this year, and 660 since the fall of 2009, to staff its new Advanced Manufacturing & Technology Center.
"We could not be more thrilled with the quality of talent we have been able to bring in house," says Deia Campenelli, a spokeswoman for
General Electric.
GE took over the former Visteon Village campus in Van Buren Township as part of a state tax incentive deal to create 1,100 IT jobs by the end of 2011. These new workers are conducting intensive IT work for a broad range of divisions of GE.
"They're covering the gamut of IT," Campenelli says.
The
Michigan Economic Development Corp originally helped woo GE to invest $100 million into the largely vacant site originally built for Ford automotive supplier Visteon. The MEDC provided $60 million in tax incentives over 12 years to make the deal happen.
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