Job Horizons
opened recently in Duffield, Virginia. The $5.9 million facility is expected to create about 140 jobs. Airbus North America, which currently employs 210 engineers, recently announced the addition of 80 new jobs over the next three years in Wichita, Kansas, where the company is expanding its facilities.
Experts predict the country will see positive job creation figures at some point in 2010, as new jobs finally outpace lay- offs. Experts predict that the fields most likely to see growth in 2010 include health care, information technology, govern- ment, financial services, and the field with the best prospects —energy. The push for alternative fuel sources should drive long term job growth in the energy sector. Unemployment, however, is expected to remain relatively high this year be- cause millions of Americans who abandoned their job searches are not counted among the unemployed until they reenter the labor pool.
Several professions have managed to stabilize or even show modest growth. In its annual survey on recruiting trends, Michigan State University projects that engineering and tech- nology jobs will remain at or around current levels throughout 2010. Tech placement experts project strong demand for network administrators, security managers, systems engineers, software architects, project managers and SAP consultants. Unfortunately, IT suffered massive job cuts in 2009, and along with systems administration positions, remain endangered.
Demand for cloud-oriented tech experts, however, has in- creased dramatically.
In January, the outlook for energy jobs markedly improved when President Obama announced that 183 companies would receive tax breaks totaling $2.3 billion for clean-energy manufacturing projects. The tax breaks were expected to generate approximately 17,000 new jobs that the president said would “pay well and can’t be outsourced.” One of the companies likely to benefit from the tax credits is Iowa wind turbine manufacturer TPI Composites, Inc., which will now be able to add 200 new jobs and a new facility in Nebraska. The administration hopes to expand the tax credits later this year by an additional $5 billion.
As part of the government’s strategy to stimulate green jobs, Siemens Energy will use $3,450,900 in tax credits funded by Recovery Act Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credits to build a new manufacturing plant, which will assemble wind turbine nacelles and hubs, in Fort Madison, Iowa. Similar tax breaks totaling $30 million, will fund six solar-power equip- ment factories in the Phoenix, Arizona area.
Hopes are high that government investments in transportation projects will fuel growth in that industry. The Defense ap- propriations bill that the president signed at the end of 2009, allows state governments to distribute $30 billion of federal funds through the end of February.
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