LAFAYETTE, Georgia – As people spend more time at home during the coronavirus pandemic, officials at GE Appliances’ Roper plant are seeing a boom in its production of stoves and ovens.
“Everyone’s buying appliances, ” said Lois Crandell, the plant manager, on Tuesday. “We can’t hire enough people.”
Crandell said that Roper, which already employs more than 2,000 people at its 1.4 million-square-foot factory, is looking to hire 100 more workers to meet demand for its products.
She expects the factory to make more units in 2020 than last year, despite the disruption created by the virus to the supply chain and the plant even closing for a week early this year.
“It’s been hard,” added Crandell, who hosted Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan during a 90-minute visit to the sprawling plant.