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Caesarstone to hold job fair Monday
Caesarstone Job Fair
The flyer announcing Caesarstone's job fair.
Jeff Whitte
Bryan County News
Updated: Oct 16, 2014, 5:33 PM
Published: Oct 16, 2014, 5:38 PM

Caesarstone Technology is having a job fair for management positions from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday at the Georgia Department of Labor’s Savannah Career Center at 5520 White Bluff Road.

The company expects to begin production as early as January.

This is the first of two scheduled job fairs for the company, which also has one scheduled for Nov. 18 at the Richmond Hill City Center, according to Beth Nelson, human resources manager for the company’s Richmond Hill Facility.

The job fair set for Monday is to fill about a dozen manager and team leader positions, Nelson said. Experience in industry and manufacturing is required for some management positions, but the company is also looking for those with leadership experience for team leader roles. Veterans and military are encouraged to apply for team leader positions, said Nelson, who is retired military and lives in Richmond Hill.

Pay for the jobs will be commensurate with experience, education and certification, she said.

All applicants should come dressed to interview and have resumes, references, certifications and their supporting documents in hand and also be prepared to fill out applications.

“This isn’t just a drop off your resume job fair,” Nelson said. “Come prepared. We’re searching local rea for all the talent and trying to make sure we try to fill positions with the local population before we have to go out further.”

Candidates at Monday’s job fair will be screened first by Georgia DOL staffers to make sure they have the qualifications. Those who do will meet Nelson and her staff, who will take applications and set up interviews with Caesarstone Technology President Jacob Dory and the company’s global vice president of human resources, Lilach GIlboa.

The company’s second job fair from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Nov. 18 at the Richmond Hill City Center is to fill the remainder of the company’s jobs by the end of the year, Nelson said, and in all the company will employ about 180 workers.

Caesarstone is based in Israel. The company broke ground on its $120 million investment at the Belfast Commerce Centre in Richmond Hill in November 2013. It is the first manufacturing facility to go into the new industrial park off Belfast Siding Road.

Nelson said the company plans to begin production in January.

Below is the company’s announcement of its job fair.

Caesarstone Technology is thrilled to announce that we will be conducting a job fair in search for candidates with the qualifications and skills to fill our Manager and Team Leader positions.   Caesarstone Technology is manufacturing facility who was an early pioneer of quartz surfaces in Israel who now have products worldwide and a company value on NASDAQ at $2.1 billion.  We have invested over $120 million to develop a manufacturing facility with the latest in technology in Bryan County.  We look forward to meeting the talent in the surrounding areas at our first Job Fair.

What-Job Fair

When-October 20

Time- 9am – 3pm

Where-Savannah Career Center, Georgia Department of Labor, at 5520 White Bluff Road

 

We will be hiring for various management positions such as: Production Manager, IT Interface & Control, Mold & Polish Department Managers, Quality Assurance Manager, Mold & Polish Team Leader, Raw Material Team Leader, Quality Control Team Leader, Laboratory Team Leader and Feed System Team Leader. Due to U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations, applicants must be at least 18 years old.

Applicants should bring resumes, be prepared to interview, and dress appropriately to improve their opportunities for employment.

For more information, visit www.gdol.ga.gov and click on the tabs for “Online Services,” “Job Search,” then search by the job numbers shown above. Information is also available by visiting any GDOL career center and using the job reference numbers.

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Ted O'Neil
Updated: May 23, 2018, 6:03 PM
Published: May 23, 2018, 6:05 PM

This is among the last pieces I’ll ever write for the Bryan County News.

Friday is my last day with the paper, and come June 1 I’m headed back to my native Michigan.

I moved here in 2015 from the Great Lake State due to my wife’s job. It’s amicable, but she has since moved on to a different life in a different state, and it’s time for me to do the same.

My son Thomas, an RHHS grad as of Saturday, also is headed back to Michigan to play basketball for a small school near Ann Arbor called Concordia University. My daughter, Erin, is in law school at University of Toledo. She had already begun her college volleyball career at Lourdes University in Ohio when we moved down here and had no desire to leave the Midwest.

With both of them and the rest of my family up north, there’s no reason for me to stay here. I haven’t missed winter one bit, but I’m sure I won’t miss the sand gnats, either.

Shortly after we arrived here in 2015, I got a job in communications with a certain art school in Savannah for a few short months. It was both personally and professionally toxic and I’ll leave it at that.

In March 2016 I signed on with the Bryan County News as assistant editor and I’ve loved every minute of it. My “first” newspaper career, in the late 80s and early 90s, was great. But when I left it to work in politics and later with a free-market think tank, I never pictured myself as an ink-stained wretch again.

Like they say, never say never.

During my time here at the News, I’ve covered everything that came along. That’s one big difference between working for a weekly as opposed to a daily paper. Reporters at a daily paper have a “beat” to cover. At a weekly paper like this, you cover … life. Sports, features, government meetings, crime, fundraisers, parades, festivals, successes, failures and everything in between. Oh, and hurricanes. Two of them. I’ll take a winter blizzard over that any day.

Along the way I’ve met a lot of great people. Volunteers, business owners, pastors, students, athletes, teachers, coaches, co-workers, first responders, veterans, soldiers and yes, even some politicians.

And I learned that the same adrenalin rush from covering “breaking news” that I experienced right out of college is still just as exciting nearly 30 years later.

With as much as I’ve written about the population increase and traffic problems, at least for a few short minutes my departure means there will be one less vehicle clogging up local roads. At least until I pass three or four moving vans headed this way as I get on northbound I-95.

The hub-bub over growth here can be humorous, unintentional and ironic all at once. We often get comments on our Facebook page that go something like this: “I’ve lived here for (usually less than five years) and the growth is out of control! We need a moratorium on new construction.”

It’s like people who move into phase I of “Walden Woods” subdivision after all the trees are cleared out and then complain about trees being cut down for phase II.

Bryan County will always hold a special place in my heart and I definitely plan on visiting again someday. My hope is that my boss, Jeff Whitten (one of the best I’ve ever had), will let me continue to be part of the Pembroke Mafia Football League from afar. If the Corleone family could expand to Vegas, there’s no reason the PMFL can’t expand to Michigan.

But the main reason I want to return someday is about that traffic issue. After all, I’ll need to see it with my own eyes before I’ll believe that Highway 144 actually got widened.

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