Spotlight New Mexico—employment changes across the state

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2003-August
Text Box: Santa Fe- Eclipse Aviation laid off 12 workers in its manufacturing department. The layoff was part of a restructuring of effort to enlarge the design team by hiring more engineers to support the redesign of the Eclipse 500 aircraft. Text Box: Clovis- The former Heilig-Meyers store on North Prince Street is being remodeled to accommodate a new tenant, Dollar Tree, the nation’s largest one-dollar discount variety store. The new store will open in August and employ between 30 to 50 full- and part-time employees. Text Box: Carlsbad- The slumping agricultural economy was cited as the reason for Mississippi Chemical’s temporary shutdown of its potash mines near Carlsbad. The company furloughed 378 of its 450 workers for a period. Construction of the Cascades Water Park will begin in September, thanks in part to a $2 million loan from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The water park is part of the economic development and revitalization of Carlsbad’s Text Box: Espanola- HYTEC, a Los Alamos based digital imaging company, would like to locate a subsidiary operation in Espanola. The company hopes to lease a 12,000-square-foot building and open HYTEC Scanning Ser-vices Inc. (HSSI). The new operation would provide scanning ser-vices for dental and orthodontic manufacturers to facilitate a stream-lined manufacturing process. About 100 people could be employed at the HSSI facility if real estate negotiations are successful. New Mexico’s last working sawmill closed on June 6, after several failed attempts to find a buyer for Rio Grande Forest Product's Espanola sawmill. The mill’s tools and equipment were auctioned off piecemeal in late June. The closure cost about 80 workers their jobs. Text Box: Rio Rancho- A November opening is planned for Intersections Inc.’s new Rio Rancho call center. The state’s Industrial Development Training Board awarded $675,000 in Inplant-training funds to train 110 workers. New employees will start at about $11 an hour. Text Box: Moriarty- The Connection plans to more than double its workforce by the beginning of August. The inbound call center wants to hire an additional 200 temporary workers to supplement its current workforce of 162. The company is offering to start customer service workers at $6.50 per hour with a raise to $7.25 after 90 days.

Employment Stats

Locale

Employment

Change

NM

93.4%

 

Albuquerque

94.1%

 

Santa Fe

96.2%

 

Las Cruces

92.9%