Lafayette's GE jet plant hiring, production start on schedule for January start

“The building is complete,” he said Wednesday. “We finished training last week. We moved in Monday.”

Twenty-one employees, including Matteson, spent the past six months at GE’s plant in Durham, North Carolina, learning to work as a self-directed team and assemble the fuel-efficient LEAP engine.

The team’s next step is to install workstations and prepare for production in the facility in Park 350 at U.S. 52 South and Veterans Memorial Parkway, he said.