The Alexandria-based company decided to upgrade to a more comprehensive and enduring mentorship program. About 40 of the company’s 280 employees are mentors who are assigned up to two new hires for six months.
The property, formerly known as the McKechnie Tooling & Engineering building is located in the industrial park off Prairie Avenue Northwest, near the Staples airport.
Equipment manufacturers are faced with a painful choice this harvest season: Send parts to factories to build new tractors and combines to sell to farmers or redirect those parts into the field to repair broken equipment for existing customers?