CHARLESTON, Tenn.-Wacker Chemical’s first 70 job openings for its planned polysilicon factory here drew about 4,000 applicants, officials said Friday.
Starting to ramp up its hiring efforts, the company aims to have nearly all its 650 workers on board when production begins in early 2014, said Ingomar Kovar, the company’s North American president.
“We’re already starting to hire engineers, human resource people … corporate communication people,” he said as the German manufacturer officially broke ground on the new plant that will serve the solar energy industry.
Also, when factory construction is fully in gear, the 550-acre site will swarm with about 1,000 people, officials said.
Speaking at a ceremony at the plant site where officials used a Cleveland State Community College sound system powered by solar energy, government officials termed the day historic for Bradley County.