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Old 05-08-2009, 12:19 PM
 
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Along those lines, if he does find work that is similar to what he has done before, it would help get a job. Austin is not really a manufacturing town, though. Some of the more industrial sites that I can think of:
Texas Crushed Stone
Lehigh Cement (may have another name now, down in Kyle)
LCRA (power plants and such)
Austin White Lime
Dell
Freescale
Samsung

Gah, I know there are more, I just cant think of them off the top of my head.
I dont know if these companies mfg anything here but:

3M
Tokyo electron
national instruments
Solectron
BAE
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Old 05-08-2009, 02:20 PM
 
Location: Austin
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Was just about to post about BAE. I don't know if they're hiring or not, but they do have jobs in manufacturing engineering and skilled labor.
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Old 05-08-2009, 02:21 PM
 
Location: Jollyville, TX
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Solectron is now Flextronics. I have worked in manufacturing for 30 years and I can tell you that $28-$30 an hour would be really hard to come by here in Austin. You might be able to get that in a chemical plant in Houston, but most of the manufacturing companies here are more along the lines of electronics and they just don't pay that well. Some of the semiconductor companies and places like Applied are going to pay better than most, but they are really prone to being cyclical and part of the reason they pay so well is lack of job security. I'm not saying it's impossible, it's not the norm. I was a production manager for a small electronics company and we paid our operators $12-$16 an hour - slightly more if they had a 2 year technical degree. Chemical operators could possibly make more, but I'm just not aware of those jobs here.
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Old 05-08-2009, 02:47 PM
 
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Even when the local job market turns around, I think manufacturing jobs that pay that much will be really, really hard to come by.
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