Janicki Industries’ 100,000-square-foot manufacturing site in Layton will receive a 70,000-square-foot expansion on the west side of the building. Construction will begin in June. (Courtesy Janicki Industries)
Janicki Industries recently announced a 70,000-square-foot expansion of its facility in Layton that will bring 50 new jobs to the area.
The expansion will be on the west side of the current 100,000-square-foot manufacturing site and construction will begin in June.
Janicki Industries is a privately owned engineering and manufacturing company based in Mount Vernon, Washington. The addition will house two-story office space, milling equipment, warehouse operations and a shipping dock.
“In 2008, Janicki was asked to help machine large composite skins for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program,” said Marketing Manager Erin Hurley. “Within two years, Janicki invested in a stand-alone facility in Layton, Utah, to serve as its dedicated machining services division.”
The aerospace industry is growing significantly, she said. “Most of our customers are commercial space and then just aerospace in general out of our Utah plant, so there’s a lot of demand. Our customers are just coming to us with more challenges, so we need to grow with them.”
Janicki both designs and builds composite metallic tooling that builds parts, said Hurley. “We build fly-away parts for airplanes or rockets or whatever the aerospace application is. That could be like actual composite fly-away parts or detailed machines, metallic parts as well as assembling those structures together so that they could be composites and metallics together.”
Hurley said they really specialize in Utah for large-scale, high-precision type of work. “So we have pretty large mills up to 100 feet long. Machining those parts and assemblies is something that our Utah plant specializes in.”
Janicki will be seeking skilled workers to fill the added jobs, she said. “A lot of these are skilled manufacturing jobs, so they require different degrees depending on what the role is. We don’t have finalized job titles that we’re going to be listing for quite yet, but they are going to be all related to production and manufacturing.”
They’ll be looking for CNC machinists and millwrights, basically for machining and general production, Hurley said. “People definitely need to have some sort of certificate or degree. Occasionally we do hire unskilled workers out of high school, but that’s not as frequent. The HR team in Utah attend some of the career fairs and events at Davis Technical College and Weber State.”
The Layton facility is part of a multi-state growth plan with expanded locations in Washington and Utah totaling more than 270,000 square feet of additional production space, more than 250 jobs and the evaluation of up to 1 million square feet of new manufacturing operations in Idaho and Montana, according to a Janicki release.
“I think it just shows that we’re continuing to invest in all of our facilities, both in Utah and Washington,” Hurley said.