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Briggs gets Quick Start for new hires
Plant adding 100-plus employees for V-Twin production
Briggs-Quick Start 02.28.18
At Briggs & Strattons Statesboro plant, left to right, state Assistant Commissioner for Quick Start Jackie Rohosky, Plant Manager James Suchovsky and Ogeechee Technical College President Lori Durden sign the training agreement. - photo by AL HACKLE/Staff
Officials of Briggs & Stratton, the Quick Start program and Ogeechee Technical College signed an agreement Tuesday for training more than 100 new employees Briggs’ Stateboro plant will hire as it begins building Vanguard V-Twin engines. Briggs & Stratton Corporation, headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, announced in October that it will bring production of the two-cylinder engines home to its plants here and in Auburn, Alabama. Previously, these engines were assembled in Japan in a joint venture with Daihatsu.
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