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Procter & Gamble’s new plant up and running in WV Eastern Panhandle; 330 workers on job

By JIM MCCONVILLE

MARTINSBURG, W.Va.  — It’s not your father’s manufacturing plant anymore.At Procter & Gamble’s new Tabler Station plant, technicians overseeing assembly line machinery have a somewhat different skill set than their factory forebears.“They’re not putting tops on a bottle, or dryer sheets into a box,” said Ryan Moore, Human Resource Department leader for P&G, at the Martinsburg-Berkeley County Chamber of Commerce breakfast at the Martinsburg Holiday Inn Friday. “They’re operating high-tech, autonomous equipment. It creates a different skill set or work force needs.”

Case in point: P&G is currently advertising to hire a microbiologist and a chemist, Moore said.

To date, the plant employs an estimated 330 workers, and will add 220 more by year end, Moore said.

With the flip of a switch, P&G’s new Tabler Station plant started making its dryer sheet Bounce product on Feb.14. It’s the first personal or home care products to be made at the facility. P&G will add one new product per month over the next 34 months to its manufacturing line, Moore said. When fully operational by the end of 2019, the factory will operate 39 product lines.

Still in its quality control production phase, P&G will start shipping finished products in March.

To date, P&G has hired 164 factory technicians and 59 managers, and will add 220 more workers by year end, Moore said. By fall 2019, the plant will have 900 employees …

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