Calhoun-based Mohawk Industries is expanding the company’s manufacturing operations in Chattooga County, creating 500 jobs over the next five years. Quick Start is providing training support for the new Summerville jobs producing the company’s bulk filament fibers.
"Quick Start is excited to be a part of the growth and success of our longtime partner Mohawk Industries,” said Jackie Rohosky, Technical College System of Georgia assistant commissioner for economic development programs and head of Quick Start. “We’re excited to help create these quality jobs in Georgia.”
Mohawk employs thousands of people in Georgia and across the nation. The company’s line of flooring products including carpet, rugs, ceramic tile, stone, wood, laminate and vinyl. Mohawk provides sustainable manufacturing through its transformation of recycled materials into fashionable flooring products, a process that ranks the company among the leading recyclers of plastic bottles in North America.
Quick Start is developing and delivering job-specific training for Mohawk’s new employees in such areas as plant safety, product quality, new equipment operation, raw material processing, threading, and Mohawk manufacturing procedures. Georgia Northwestern Technical College is the third partner in the training agreement, available to assist Mohawk with ongoing training programs after the Quick Start training is completed.