Charlie Creech, president of North State Aviation, said the positions for the new aircraft center will mostly be mechanics and technicians who will work on aviation repair, maintenance and overhaul services at a one-bay hangar with more than 20,000 square feet. Workers will also be needed in the stock and tool rooms.
He said the more than 400 jobs located in Winston-Salem will remain at the Smith Reynolds Airport, where North State Aviation is the largest tenant and has a total of six bays that are 17,000 square feet each.
“Nobody is going down there from here; we’re going to be hiring locally down there,” he said of the new park jobs.
Creech said members of the senior management team, including himself, will remain in Winston-Salem, where the company was founded in 2010.
The new North State Aviation salaries will vary by position, but the average will be $39,688 per year. That’s higher than the average annual wage in Lenoir County of $32,164.
The company will also invest $900,000 mostly in upfits to the hangar, Creech said.
Creech said the N.C. Global TransPark hangar can hold a plane as large as a Boeing 737-900, which is the largest aircraft that North State works on at its Smith Reynolds Airport facility in Winston-Salem.
North State Aviation eyed facilities in South Carolina, but determined that the Kinston facility was “perfect for us” due to a variety of factors including nearby community colleges that both have aviation programs as well as military installations that the company can recruit from, Creech said. The 2,500-acre industrial park has access to an airport, rail and highways such as Interstate 95 and Interstate 40.
He said the park is also home to a “magnificent” airport with a 2-mile runway.
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