GE Aviation to Grow Dayton Workforce

The Cincinnati-based maker of jet aircraft engines recently held a local career fair to help fill 15 open positions at the Vandalia plant and it expects the workforce to continue to grow at the facility where it invested $3 million in the past year, said Michael Mancini, the company’s Vandalia site leader.

The company and UD also are investing $51 million in the Electrical Power Integrated Systems Research and Development Center (EPISCENTER) off South Patterson Boulevard on the UD campus. The new center is scheduled to open in June and will complement, not replace, other Dayton-area operations, Mancini and others said.

One of 80 GE Aviation supply chain sites worldwide, the Vandalia site serves Boeing and the U.S. Navy, producing electric power generation systems. A full 98% of its business goes to the military, and since the Navy in particular will take everything the facility will produce, the site is trying to produce more, Mancini says. That means the company needs qualified workers.

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