{"id":355002,"date":"2025-11-04T12:48:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T12:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/355002\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T12:48:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T12:48:29","slug":"jcb-looks-to-hire-locals-for-southside-plants-2026-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/355002\/","title":{"rendered":"JCB looks to hire locals for Southside plant’s 2026 opening"},"content":{"rendered":"

JCB\u2019s South Side factory will start producing heavy construction equipment by this time next year.<\/p>\n

That means the company is trying to attract local workers for its 1,500 jobs, 500 of which it hopes to have filled by 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Friday\u2019s episode of the podcast bigcitysmalltown<\/a>, David Carver, JCB Texas\u2019 operations manager, talked about what those jobs will look like.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cGenerally, for JCB as a business, for every job that we employ, there tends to be six jobs in the supply chain,\u201d Carver said.<\/p>\n

The company will need forklift drivers, welders, assemblers, painters, office staff and other workers once its two buildings open \u2014 an assembly building, as well as a paint and manufacturing building.<\/p>\n

JCB\u2019s jobs provide opportunity for upward mobility, Carver added. He started working on the floor at a JCB facility and now is responsible for building and running a factory.<\/p>\n

\u201cJCB is really looking for a wide range of people. Anybody that\u2019s looking for a long range career with a great attitude,\u201d Carver said. \u201cI started in JCB at the shop level and worked my way up through the business. That\u2019s not unusual.\u201d<\/p>\n

JCB currently employs 24 people in the San Antonio area, Carver said. Currently, the company\u2019s website lists one open job within 15 miles of San Antonio: a manufacturing engineer position.<\/p>\n

During an October interview<\/a>, Carver said JCB will ramp up hiring as it gets closer to its factory\u2019s opening date in 2026. Carver said wages will be competitive. The company is surrounded by other manufacturing employers, like Toyota, and committed to paying at least $20.54 per hour when it selected San Antonio for its plant.<\/p>\n

Carver said San Antonio has felt welcoming and collaborative every step of the way, though, even with other manufacturers hiring in the area.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll be advertising for jobs at the same time, it will create a natural competition, but it doesn\u2019t feel like competition,\u201d he said. \u201cIt really feels like a team working together to make a total number of jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that the company will emphasize local hiring. \u201cWe\u2019re looking for people from San Antonio to work in San Antonio,\u201d Carver said.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s part of a broader effort to find suppliers in Texas.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur strategy, since we\u2019ve started, is really to do everything local, to really start in San Antonio and then push outwards,\u201d Carver said. \u201cWe\u2019re looking for local suppliers. We\u2019re looking for people who are local first and then pushing that out across the rest of the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that JCB is looking at Toyota\u2019s model for bringing in suppliers. When the Japanese car manufacturer started building its South Side facility in 2003, it brought suppliers along with it. Those companies set up shop in the area and hired their own workers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got existing suppliers already that are looking to relocate to San Antonio to stay with JCB and provide a local service. We\u2019ve met with some of those great local suppliers of Toyota,\u201d Carver said. \u201cThe way that they set up their businesses is great. We\u2019re learning what they did with Toyota and how that model was formed. We have that opportunity on the site.\u201d<\/p>\n

He noted that JCB is only using 84 acres for its plant \u2014 roughly 20% of its 400-acre Southside site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JCB\u2019s South Side factory will start producing heavy construction equipment by this time next year. That means the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":355003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,11884,116413,156378,156379,173360,420,748,7202,7203,13561,127626,358,1103,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,7819],"class_list":{"0":"post-355002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-bigcitysmalltown","10":"tag-bob-rivard","11":"tag-david-carver","12":"tag-jcb","13":"tag-jcb-texas","14":"tag-jobs","15":"tag-manufacturing","16":"tag-san-antonio","17":"tag-sanantonio","18":"tag-south-side","19":"tag-suppliers","20":"tag-texas","21":"tag-toyota","22":"tag-tx","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-united-states-of-america","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-usa","29":"tag-wc-500-750"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115491510936619675","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355002","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=355002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}