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10-14-2014, 10:35 AM
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Pickup trucks tend not to advance at quite the same pace as the rest of the industry. That's what makes the new Ford F-150 (http://www.autoblog.com/ford/f-150/) so remarkable, jettisoning its old steel construction in favor of aluminum. It's a game changer that Ford (http://www.autoblog.com/ford/) is betting big on, and in anticipation of surging demand, the Blue Oval automaker is adding 850 new jobs to put the thing together.
Those 850 new employees will be centered at Ford's Rouge complex in Michigan - with 300 at Dearborn Stamping, 50 more at Dearborn Diversified and 500 at the Dearborn Truck facility, the latter of which has already kicked off what Ford describes as "the largest manufacturing transformation in decades." Old manufacturing equipment is being replaced with the latest technologies, and even the Ford Rouge Factory Tour is undergoing a complete overhaul.
The new jobs come as part of the commitments Ford made to the UAW in 2011 (http://www.autoblog.com/2011/10/19/uaw-finally-ratifies-new-ford-contract-more-details-revealed/) to create 12,000 hourly jobs in the United States by 2015 - a number which Ford has already exceeded at 14,000. Over 4,000 of those are centered in southeastern Michigan.Continue reading Ford adds 850 jobs to build 2015 F-150 (http://www.autoblog.com/2014/10/14/2015-ford-f150-850-jobs-official/)
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Pickup trucks tend not to advance at quite the same pace as the rest of the industry. That's what makes the new Ford F-150 (http://www.autoblog.com/ford/f-150/) so remarkable, jettisoning its old steel construction in favor of aluminum. It's a game changer that Ford (http://www.autoblog.com/ford/) is betting big on, and in anticipation of surging demand, the Blue Oval automaker is adding 850 new jobs to put the thing together.
Those 850 new employees will be centered at Ford's Rouge complex in Michigan - with 300 at Dearborn Stamping, 50 more at Dearborn Diversified and 500 at the Dearborn Truck facility, the latter of which has already kicked off what Ford describes as "the largest manufacturing transformation in decades." Old manufacturing equipment is being replaced with the latest technologies, and even the Ford Rouge Factory Tour is undergoing a complete overhaul.
The new jobs come as part of the commitments Ford made to the UAW in 2011 (http://www.autoblog.com/2011/10/19/uaw-finally-ratifies-new-ford-contract-more-details-revealed/) to create 12,000 hourly jobs in the United States by 2015 - a number which Ford has already exceeded at 14,000. Over 4,000 of those are centered in southeastern Michigan.Continue reading Ford adds 850 jobs to build 2015 F-150 (http://www.autoblog.com/2014/10/14/2015-ford-f150-850-jobs-official/)
Ford adds 850 jobs to build 2015 F-150 (http://www.autoblog.com/2014/10/14/2015-ford-f150-850-jobs-official/) originally appeared on Autoblog (http://www.autoblog.com) on Tue, 14 Oct 2014 11:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.mnfords.com/rss-term-of-use/).
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