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Employees are afforded competitive wages, comprehensive benefits, skills training, and growth opportunities, from the shop floor to facility management. And these opportunities are driven forward by international automakers’ investments in upskilling and reskilling through workforce development programs.
Delbert Lemley comes to work at Toyota West Virginia three days a week. He badges in at the security gate, walks to his work area, takes a seat at a small grey-top table and begins assembling vacuum regulating valves.
Lemley is meticulous. He selects a valve from a cardboard box, closely inspecting the piece before placing it on the jig in front of him. Once it’s secure, he selects a small hose from a box, dips it in a tiny dish of alcohol and secures it to the valve.
Volkswagen Group of America announced the grand opening of a new port facility at Port Freeport in Texas. The new Gulf Coast hub represents an approximate $114 million investment in the Freeport area and creates more than 110 new direct jobs in addition to indirect jobs in trucking, rail, and vessel operations.
Port Freeport will import and process up to 140,000 vehicles for Volkswagen, Audi, Bentley, Lamborghini, and Porsche, supporting approximately 300 dealers in the Central and Western United States. After consolidating two smaller facilities in Houston and Midlothian, Texas to create the new Freeport location, VWGoA now operates seven ports in the United States, including Baltimore, MD; Benicia, CA; Davisville, RI; Jacksonville, FL; San Diego, CA; and the Volkswagen Assembly Plant in Chattanooga, TN.
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July marked a historic milestone at Kia Georgia’s assembly plant in West Point as team members gathered to celebrate the start of assembly of the all-electric 2025 EV9 three-row SUV, the first saleable electric vehicle assembled in the state of Georgia. The vehicle was introduced by SeungKyu (Sean) Yoon, President and CEO for Kia North America and Kia America, then driven off the assembly line by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and James Watson, Kia Georgia’s Vice President of Production.
“Marty and I were privileged to be part of this monumental accomplishment by the Kia Georgia team,” said Governor Kemp. “This expansion of Kia’s operations in our state and the addition of this incredible new product line to the vehicles already being built in West Point is just the latest example of what comes from state and local partners working with this valued job creator. I want to congratulate the Kia Georgia team members on today’s achievement and thank them for choosing the Peach State yet again as we work to become the e-mobility capital of the nation.”
Mazda Toyota Manufacturing knows that to get people to come to work and to make the decision to do that, they need support. Childcare consistently presents itself as a challenge that doesn’t have easy solutions on both sides of the equation. Together, Mazda Toyota Manufacturing and TOOTRiS are providing employees with a solution that allows women and single parents to reenter the workforce.
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