Engineering Jobs Pittsburgh Expanded by Seegrid
One company is helping to increase the number of engineering jobs Pittsburgh has to offer.
Seegrid Corporation recently announced its plans to expand and move the company's headquarters from Pittsburgh to a facility near Pittsburgh International Airport. The expansion, which will create jobs during 2010 and in the future, is meant to better prepare the company for an increase in demand and orders.
Seegrid robots are used to perform put-away and long-haul tasks in warehouses, as well as parts delivery and end-of-line product movement in manufacturing facilities. The company's new facility will include its design and engineering, sales, assembly and implementation divisions.
Denver Engineer Jobs Created by Sierra Nevada Corp.
One Nevada-based aerospace company is planning to create Denver engineer jobs at the company's Colorado operations.
Sierra Nevada Corporation recently announced its plans to create an additional 200 jobs in Colorado at the company's facility in Centennial, which is located just outside Denver. The added jobs are the result of the company's efforts to expand and increase capital investment.
The company also is taking advantage of the Job Growth Incentive fund, a new state tax law designed to encourage business expansion. That law provides a credit on payroll taxes for each new job companies create, which is applied each year and is equivalent to 3.8 percent of the employee's salary.
Tucson Engineering Jobs Training
Several entities are working together to prepare students for future Tucson engineering jobs.
Science Foundation Arizona recently awarded a competitive Math or Science Achievement Grant funded by the Arizona State Board of Education to a partnership between the Tucson Unified School District and the University of Arizona College of Engineering.
Such grants will be used to implement a new program meant to increase the number of engineering graduates throughout Arizona. The overall concept uses an innovative approach involving high schools and higher education institutions as partners in order to increase the pipeline of qualified engineers in the state.