{"id":309360,"date":"2025-10-17T00:18:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T00:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/309360\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T00:18:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T00:18:14","slug":"jcb-looking-for-workers-as-facility-rises-on-the-south-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/309360\/","title":{"rendered":"JCB looking for workers as facility rises on the South Side"},"content":{"rendered":"

With just more than <\/strong>a year until construction equipment starts rolling out of its new South Side factory, JCB is kicking its hiring and its construction into a higher gear.<\/p>\n

The Great Britain-based manufacturer has plants around the world, but its largest <\/strong>\u2014 a one million-square-foot factory<\/a> \u2014 will be in San Antonio.<\/p>\n

Now the company is hiring so it can have 500 workers ready when the facility opens at the end of 2026. JCB will add another 1,000 workers over the next five years, said David Carver, the operations director for JCB Texas<\/a>, to meet its plans for 1,500 workers by 2030 or 2031.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a full map of the 1,500 people, and when we believe we will hire people. That includes that training piece built in,\u201d Carver said. \u201cNext year, we\u2019ll get close to 500 people and then, as the next products come on board, some of the access equipment, then that will start to grow.\u201d<\/p>\n

JCB leaders shared details about their hiring plans and construction Thursday, showcasing the equipment that will be produced at the site and the skeleton of a new manufacturing facility rising near Palo Alto Road. <\/p>\n

\"JCBJCB 32-foot and 42-foot scissor lifts, a straight boom and a telescopic forklift sit at the JCB manufacturing plant site near Palo Alto Road on Oct. 16, 2025. Credit: Jasper Kenzo Sundeen \/ San Antonio Report<\/p>\n

The facility will first produce telescopic forklifts, also known as telehandlers, and lifts for construction workers, at first. Richard Fox-Marrs, who heads JCB\u2019s operations in the U.S., said demand for those products has increased.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cJCB is growing globally, but nowhere faster than North America,\u201d he said. \u201cDemand has never been higher.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new San Antonio location <\/strong>is important due to Texas\u2019 status as the country\u2019s largest construction equipment market, and has easier access to other North American customers. <\/p>\n

Carver said JCB has begun to fill out its staff to meet that demand.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s 24 people with us today, on site today. As we start to ramp up, we\u2019ve built a training pathway for each one of those <\/strong>[planned] roles,\u201d Carver said. \u201cPeople will have to be onboarded early to make sure they have the correct training.\u201d<\/p>\n

Training and preparing workers is one of Carver\u2019s focuses. He\u2019s working with local schools and technical programs<\/a> to make sure San Antonio workers are ready to take on the welding, assembling or technician jobs JCB is hiring for. JCB has also opened a small apprenticeship program, paying for some workers\u2019 education to prepare them for a role at the new facility.<\/p>\n

In Savannah, Georgia, that program involved 30 to 40 workers a year.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, JCB shared where it plans to hire workers from. Around 5%, or 75 workers, will be hired through local organizations like Haven for Hope, Goodwill, Greater:SATX and other nonprofits. More than 200 hires will be focused on veterans and military spouses, 450 will be hired from local technical schools and programs and about half of the 1,500 workers will be hired through direct advertising or recruitment services.<\/p>\n

Carver said JCB arrived at those estimates by hearing about recruiting from other local manufacturers in the Southside area near the plant.<\/p>\n

Carver added that JCB has already built a list of more than 700 prospective employees, but was still looking to add interested workers.<\/p>\n

JCB committed to pay a $20.54 hourly minimum wage<\/a> when it came to San Antonio, and has plans to add other amenities to entice workers to join the team.<\/p>\n

The new factory space will have 120 skylights to bring natural light to the factory floor. A 50,000-square-foot office space will include a cafeteria and gym.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to be an employer of choice,\u201d Carver said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With just more than a year until construction equipment starts rolling out of its new South Side factory,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":309361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,9886,156377,156378,7414,156379,156380,156381,7202,7203,13561,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,7819],"class_list":{"0":"post-309360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-construction","10":"tag-construction-equipment","11":"tag-david-carver","12":"tag-hiring","13":"tag-jcb","14":"tag-manufacturing-facility","15":"tag-richard-fox-marrs","16":"tag-san-antonio","17":"tag-sanantonio","18":"tag-south-side","19":"tag-texas","20":"tag-tx","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa","27":"tag-wc-500-750"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115386640726481837","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}