Energy Components Group aims to hire 250

metromode, 12/10/2009

--This article originally appeared on May 21, 2009

While St. Clair Shores-based Energy Components Group hopes to capitalize on a $20 million investment in alternative energy and create 250 jobs within five years, it knows it's going to open up a new facility and hire about 20-30 by this fall.

"There is a lot of talent in Michigan," says Rich Pirrotta, COO of Energy Components Group. "There are a lot of good things that come from using the automotive talent here."

Pirrotta hopes to hire some of that talent soon thanks to an approximately $2 million tax credit over seven years from the state. The Michigan Economic Development Corp also hopes to provide an employee training grant of up to $250,000 through the Economic Development Job Training program.

That money helped the fledgling start-up choose to stay here instead of moving to another location in New Mexico, closer to its customers. Right now its handful of employees have almost closed on a manufacturing and research and development facility in St. Clair, where it will make precision machine components for alternative energy.

Source: Rich Pirrotta, COO of Energy Components Group
Writer: Jon Zemke