PICAYUNE —
Alliance Consulting Group, LLC, which is holding what the company calls two “public recruiting events” at the Picayune City Hall council chambers, will provide application packets to those who attend, and there will be company personnel on-hand to help those applying to fill out the applications for the approximately 50 jobs available.
The company is constructing a sand-drying facility on 30 acres in South Picayune and is looking for 40 to 50 employees. The company has told local officials it will give a high priority to hiring locally, Mayor Ed Pinero, Jr., said on Thursday. The plant is currently under construction.
The events are scheduled to be held today (Friday) from 4 to 7 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Those having formal resumes should bring them, but the company will supply applications at the event, said Pinero.
City Manager Jim Luke said the events will be “sort of like a jobs fair.”
City Hall is located at 815 N. Beech St.
Pinero said the event will be held in the council chambers, and the company’s management and human resources staff will be on-site. “They will give each applicant a packet and will help them fill it out,” said Pinero.
Picayune City Operations Officer Harvey Miller said the city has been working with the company since August, 2011. “We look forward to working with the company even more, and will help it in any way possible. We need those jobs here.”
Pinero, Luke and Miller said the company will have a big economic impact on the city and county, bringing in, initially, 50 jobs, purchasing natural gas from the city gas department and paying local taxes.
“It’s great news,” said Miller.
Said Pinero, “The company has already had an impact on the local economy. They have tried to hire local contractors and people as much as possible, and they told us they would do that, if possible.”
The company’s offices are in New Orleans.
The plant under construction is on 30 acres between Picayune and Nicholson on the west side of the railroad tracks and Miller said once the company locates here, there might be a chance of an expansion in the future, which would generate more jobs. The plant is partially in the city’s industrial park and a portion of it extends outside the city limits and park into the county.
Collateral impacts on the local economy will be many, said Pinero. “We have a lot of individuals here who make their living hauling, with trucks,” said Pinero. “It will affect Pearl River County from one end to the other.”
The plant will take in sand, heat it, reducing the moisture content, package it and ship it nationwide. The company will produce the sand for the oil drilling industry and ship it by rail and truck.
Available jobs include: Plant manager, laboratory manager, production supervisors, instrumentation-electrical technicians, DCS operators, outside unit operation-mechanics, laboratory technicians, rail-truck loaders, equipment operators, front office secretaries, logistics secretary and laboratory secretary.
Company officials said the facility “is designed to dry, screen, clean, refine, store and ship sand material for the oil industry nationwide.” They said there are no wastes since the initial and end product is sand.
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