Intel Starts Hiring Workers For New Plant

Intel Corp. is holding a job fair in Tacoma next week for people interested in computer assembly jobs at its new plant in DuPont.

The company will open the manufacturing-and-research facility July 7. Hundreds of assembly workers are needed to build the rectangular part of a computer that holds all the circuitry that runs the machine.

Applicants for the $18,000- to $23,000-a-year manufacturing jobs can drop off their resumes and chat with recruiters at a job fair Intel is sponsoring May 16-17 in Tacoma.

Those hired to fill the assembly jobs, officially called “manufacturing techs,” will be the first of up to 7,900 people who may end up working at the DuPont manufacturing and research complex by 2003.