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Kinze Manufacturing Re-Hiring Laid Off Workers
USAgNet - 02/19/2018
An Iowa agriculture-equipment manufacturer is hiring factory workers as sales continue to improve. Kinze Manufacturing in Williamsburg, which makes planters for row-crop production and grain auger carts, is looking for assemblers, fork truck drivers, CNC
operators, machine operators, powder coat painters, robot welders and welders, reports the Cedar Rapids Gazette.
"We had a very successful job fair Saturday," said Mike Medhurst, Kinze director of human resources. "We have 100 shop floor openings to fill. I think the job fair will fill 25 percent or 30 percent of the positions. We also have a number of people who have
applied online and we are starting to go through those applications. It's not too late for people to continue to apply."
Kinze laid off 121 employees in June 2016, citing sharply reduced orders for equipment as low grain prices prompted farmers to delay purchasing new planters and grain carts.
Medhurst said the company has been able to rehire many of the laid off workers in recent months as business conditions have improved.
Employers contacted for the January Creighton University Mid-America Business Conditions Index cited difficulty in finding and hiring qualified workers as the greatest challenge to their business growth in 2018.
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