General Motors is putting the finishing touches on its new parts processing center in Burton, Michigan, with plans to open the facility next Monday.
MLive reported Tuesday GM looks to officially open the center on August 5. The facility will handle parts processing for GM Genuine and ACDelco parts and the opening ceremony will see Barry Engle, executive vice president and president, and Tim Turvey, global vice president, customer care and aftersales, attend.
Compared to the old facility that measured 400,000 square feet, the new parts processing center spans 1.1 million square feet. The newly constructed building will give GM room to grow. Potentially, it could hire more employees to staff the location. Right now, there are no job announcements planned. Instead, the 750 some employees from the old facility will transfer to the new building. Total investment for the Burton center is $65 million.
A GM spokeswoman told the website that work began at the new facility this past April, including the start of employee transfers and equipment work. Full details will be disclosed at the opening ceremony on Monday.
The new site will be GM’s largest investment in warehousing and logistics in the past 40 years, the automaker previously said. The Burton center will ship parts to numerous other facilities throughout the U.S. where GM fills customer orders.
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Source: MLive
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Seems like a good place to put a lot of solar panels on the roof….
If they transfer would they have to start at $ 15.78 as Temp employees with no seniority?
Back in the early-’80s, as offshoring/outsourcing became buzzwords (then stark realities) we were advised by parties in-the-know that subcontracting our manufacturing heavy-lifting to overseas entities would leverage wages, here, lower. That is exactly what happened over the course of two generations.
So what have we, collectively, gained for the convenience of importing ‘cheap’ foreign goods? A lowered standard of living. ‘Cheap’ imports come with an onerous backend cost.
1.1 million square feet is huge. The Fisher Body Plant where I started out with GM, well over forty years ago, had approximately that much space under an assembly of several roofs.
Later in my ‘career’ I was privileged to work in an SPO warehouse in southeastern Pennsylvania when the facility was brand new and what a facility it still is. Haven’t been back in several years but the vast air conditioned innards was a “template” at that time with acres of storage. I don’t know one in twenty folks toiling there now but the workforce was evolving as we oldsters aged-out of the game. It is a young person’s game as productivity is the watchword and all time, even the interval between heartbeats, is accounted for.
Our facility’s manager held an open house for employees and the community at the end of our first summer with great food, live entertainment and a GM sponsored racing team on hand. I was proud to show-off the place, along with my co-workers, to family and friends.
In the first months of operations in 2002 as we sought to establish equilibrium in our picking/sorting/shipping procedures we’d work into the wee hours of Saturday mornings to get loose ends tied-up before the new week began on Monday. Our shift’s general supervisor would make coffee and donut run at 1 AM or so which really bucked-up morale and we’d finish with that boost of sugar and caffeine percolating through our bloodstream. Good people, good times and a great job.