Yancey Engineered Solutions to Open Cordele, Georgia Plant, Creating 300 Jobs

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp announced on June 25 that Yancey Engineered Solutions will invest $5.7 million in a new manufacturing facility in Cordele, creating 300 new jobs over the next several years in Crisp County.

Reviving the Big Tex plant

The facility will be located at 502 South Midway Road, where the company will refurbish the former Big Tex manufacturing plant. Yancey plans to hire welders, quality control technicians, assembly workers and drivers.

Power generation packaging

Founded in 2004, Yancey Engineered Solutions provides power generation packaging systems and is a division of Yancey Bros. Co., the authorized Caterpillar dealer for Georgia.

Trey Googe, CEO of Yancey said:

“We are excited to be able to add new teammates from the Cordele/Crisp community and to manufacture products here that help fill a need in a growing and important market we serve.”

Cordele Mayor Wesley Rainey said:

“Cordele is very excited by Yancey’s decision to redevelop the Big Tex facility and to hopefully rehire many of the former employees of Big Tex.”