New Johnstown Jobs

Company representatives announced plans to move their Supply Chain Facility Wednesday morning.  The current center is in Greenville, South Carolina.  With a manufacturing plant already in Johnstown, company officials say it was an easy decision to move the center to Cambria County.  

"To have adjacent to us a parts manufacturing  facility where we can get parts turned around quickly, that we can get repairs and overhauls and get back to our customers quicker, that was really the value proposition for us to move into this area," Marillyn Hewson, Executive Vice President of Global Sustainment said.  

"They manufacture parts, we distribute and warehouse parts.  The synergies between the two organizations is going to bring better value to our customers," said John Carroll, Vice President of Global Supply Chain Services.

The 43,000 square foot facility will supply parts for repairing and overhauling commercial and government aircrafts.  Right now 100 people are employed at the South Carolina facility.  All of those employees have been offered positions at the Johnstown site.  It’s still unclear how many plan to relocate, but the company says they'll be looking for help from the local workforce. 

“If they don't come we're certainly going to be looking throughout the local community to get the full up of jobs that we need," Hewson said.

Congressman John Murtha has long been an driving force in bringing the defense contracting industry to Johnstown.  While he admits he can bring businesses to the region, he says it’s the local economy that keeps them here.

"I think the productivity of the workers, the efficiency of the workers, that's what it's all about.  When somebody comes to town and they find out the other companies are doing well," Murtha said. 

Carroll currently heads the facility in South Carolina.  He'll be moving north in August to direct the new center.  He says he's heard nothing but good things about the region's workforce.

"The folks located right around us, Concurrent Technologies, excellent workforce from what we've heard so far," Carroll said.