The facility also has 14 administrative support people, and Quickel said he plans to hire seven more assembly workers. I like the team-based environment. In a similar production cell set-up with three shifts, the Danville plant will perform different tasks using the formed sheet metal produced in Lynchburg and Staunton, which will hire 75 people. Diebold's largest plant, in Newark, Ohio, will perform final assembly on the parts, Quickel said. Jobs at Diebold are desirable, according to Foster, who received 600 job applications in Lynchburg during a recent two week period.
Diebold officials say the semi-skilled positions pay slightly better than textile jobs.
Already, Foster said she is receiving inquiries about jobs at the Danville plant, scheduled for an April or May start-up. At about 75,000 square feet, both the Danville and Staunton factories will be larger than the Lynchburg plant, which opened in 1990 and boasts 60,000 square feet, Quickel said. Diebold is able to fill an average order within five days while the competition's turnaround is typically up to 45 days, Quickel added. In the spacious, cement floored production area, where tasks flow logically from the front of the building to the rear shipping center, employees maximize their time while computer controlled machines are running to set up other jobs or assemble parts. The Lynchburg plant makes 2,000 different parts, Quickel said.