Fargo Assembly will be adding new employees to its work force in Bethany to meet increasing demands for electrical harnesses for Harley-Davidson motorcycles.
Jeremy VanMeter, manager of the plant, said Fargo will be adding about 30 new workers to bring its overall employment to about 100 by the end of the year.
“It is part of our original planned expansion,” VanMeter said in an interview on Thursday.
Fargo opened its Bethany facility earlier in the year and quickly grew to 70 employees following the conversion of the former Lambert Manufacturing Company building on the east outer road of I-35. The company is using only about half of the floor space available at the former cap factory.
The work force will be expanding to meet production requirements following the changeover of the model year at the Harley-Davidson plant.
The local Fargo employees also are doing more of the splicing work that had previously been performed at Fargo’s Atchison, Kan., plant.
Ten more employees were scheduled to begin work at the Bethany plant on Monday morning and an additional 10 employees will be added every two weeks until the production force reaches 100, VanMeter said. The plant currently is taking applications for the first and second shifts.
VanMeter said the Fargo employees have quickly picked up the job skills in assembling harnesses.
“We have a good group of people out here,” he said.