Wed Feb 08 2012
Up to 1,000 job seekers are expected to apply for several open positions Tuesday during Mountain Valley Recycling’s job fair, a company official says.
The fair, scheduled for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., will be at the recycling company’s facility at 2001 U.S. 421 South, formerly Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems.
Available jobs include shirt supervisor, lab technician, production supervisor, shipping/receiving clerk, material forecast planner, warehouse/forklift operator, sorter/prep worker, machine operator and material handler, according to an advertisement from the company.
Jill Salansky, manager of customer service for Mountain Valley Recycling, said the company expects to hire 350 new employees by the end of the year. She didn’t say how many would be immediately hired after the fair.
President and CEO Ron Whaley told The State Journal in a June interview that hiring would start small, likely around 100 employees.
Salansky says the company will be hiring during the next few months, with some jobs filled within two weeks.
Mountain Valley Recycling will offer a competitive salary with benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage and a 401K account, the advertisement says.
Unskilled labor starts at $12 per hour plus benefits, Salansky said.
Potential applicants should go to selfreg.ky.gov to begin the application process and bring a resume to the job fair, according to Salansky.
Job seekers will fill out applications at the job fair. If an applicant meets qualifications, they will be asked for a follow up interview later on in the week.
A similar job fair was held March 6 in Lexington, when R.J. Corman, with railroad through Frankfort, had an open call for 100 short-term jobs improving railroads in Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia.
R.J. Corman had applications for the first 500 job seekers, and 2,600 showed up, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported. The third person in line for applications, 31-year-old Allen Bryant of Cynthiana, staked his place at 4 p.m. the previous day, according to the story.
Salansky expects between 750 and 1,000 to show up Tuesday, and there’s no cut-off number.
Franklin County’s unemployment rate was an estimated 8.7 percent in June, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s below the statewide 10 percent unemployment rate, according to the bureau’s numbers.
Mountain Valley Recycling is coming here after the city received a $1 million Community Development Block Grant from the state Department for Local Government.
Kim Smith, an administrative assistant with the Capital Community Economic/Industrial Development Authority, told The State Journal Monday that the city received preliminary notification of the grant’s acceptance July 13.
CCEIDA will use $970,000 of the grant to buy equipment for the Boca Raton, Fla.-based recycling company, which will pay more than $12,500 per month on a seven-year lease for the equipment, Smith says.
Mountain Valley Recycling also received a $1 million offer in corporate and wage assessment credits from the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority in March, according to an earlier State Journal report.
Whaley, the company’s president, says Mountain Valley Recycling will invest $9.3 million in renovating the 220,000-square-foot facility and use local companies throughout the process.
It will be the second-largest industrial employer in the area if it reaches its target number of hires. Montaplast has 620 employees and Buffalo Trace has 318, according to numbers provided by CCEIDA in June.
The company buys recyclable plastics and processes them into reusable resin pellets, which it sells to manufacturers of plastic goods. The plant here should process about 90 million pounds of plastic pellets per year, which would save an estimated 550,000 barrels of oil.
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