Volkswagen Chattanooga is joining with a new staffing company to help hire many of the 1,000 more employees it needs in the next year as the plant readies for electric vehicles.
“We’re hiring for production, logistics, paint and body shops,” said Gray Nelson, the branch manager at The Onin Group.
Onin is seeking assembly production workers with pay rates that start at $15.50 per hour and can range up to $19.72 per hour with VW’s bonus program that rewards employee attendance and the ability to follow through on assignments, according to the staffing contractor.
“We screen them when they come in and put them in one of those departments,” Nelson said.
VW also offers a paid training program for the first three weeks that allows workers to acclimate themselves to the production line. VW typically will later convert workers to become employees of the automaker.