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Caterpillar Told Athens-Clarke County And Oconee County Authorities It Had 658 Full-Time Jobs During Average Month In 2014
The most common type of job at the plant has been product assembler, with 197 of the 932 jobs created by the end of 2014 so classified.
The number of full-time jobs at the Caterpillar plant on the Athens-Clarke County and Oconee County line during the average month in 2014 was 658, up from a monthly average of 214 a year ago.
A total number of 932 full-time jobs were created at the facility by the end of 2014, or 568 more than the 364 that had been created by the end of 2013, the first year of operation of the plant.
The most common type of job at the plant has been product assembler, with 197 of the 932 jobs created by the end of 2014 so classified. A year ago only 40 of the jobs that had been created were classified as product assembler.
These jobs data come from the 2014 annual report Caterpillar is obligated to file with the Development Authority of the Unified Government of Athens-Clarke County and with the Oconee County Industrial Development Authority.
As part of the memorandum of understanding the two authorities signed with Caterpillar in 2012, the company must provide annually a community jobs report and a community investment report.
For details on the types of jobs created by Caterpillar, go to Oconee County Observations.