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Quick Start for Great Dane
Ogeechee Tech, state to help train plants 400 workers
W DANIEL EUGENE RIGGS
Ogeechee Technical College representatives Barry Turner, Jeff Davis, President Dawn Cartee, and Lori Durden, left to right, exit the massive Great Dane facility after signing a Partners in Workforce Training agreement with the manufacturer during a ceremony and press conference Tuesday.
Bulloch County’s newest manufacturing business Great Dane Trailers, along with the Georgia Quick Start program and Ogeechee Technical College, announced plans Tuesday to help train the company’s projected 400 new employees. Great Dane is nearing completion of its 450,000-square-foot facility on a 118-acre site in Statesboro’s Gateway Industrial Park off Highway 301. In its first phase, the plant will have the capacity to produce more than 5,000 trailers annually, employing more than 400 workers.
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