I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
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Intel could produce 1,000 to 1,500 new “temporary” construction jobs over the next 18 months, state and company officials said Tuesday.
The California tech giant plans to invest $2.5 billion to help upgrade the manufacturing process at the firm’s Rio Rancho plant and make it more environmentally friendly.
The newer manufacturing process to produce Intel’s silicon chips will require less power than the current process, said Jami Grindatto of Intel’s corporate affairs.
The temporary construction jobs would be added to the 7,000 workers already at the Rio Rancho plant, Grindatto said. Intel’s current workforce in Rio Rancho is composed of roughly half Intel employees and half contract employees.
Tim Hendry, vice president of Intel’s Technology Manufacturing Group, said the construction workers who would land the temporary jobs come with a particular skill set.
“We usually have journeymen and advanced types of construction workers who are able to do the advanced piping as well as electrical,” Hendry said. “Typically the type of construction workers we have on the site are very highly skilled to be able to work in the environment we them ask to.”
Gov. Bill Richardson jumped in to make sure to point out that they would be high-wage jobs.
“Jami, they are high-wage jobs, 40 plus right,” Richardson asked Grindatto following Hendry’s remarks.
“They are absolutely 40 plus,” Grindatto said.
