Fluor Corp., the engineering and construction company that traded its Aliso Viejo headquarters earlier this year for a Texas home, plans to hire roughly 300 engineers in Orange County in coming months, according to company officials.
The hiring stands to reverse a slide in local jobs at Fluor that started in 2001 when the company had roughly triple the number of OC workers it does today.
Fluor left behind about 1,100 people at its engineering operations in Aliso Viejo and Irvine after shifting its headquarters to Irving, Texas, in April.
Another 400 people stayed at Fluor’s Long Beach facility.
Fluor is seeing a big growth spurt in Southern California, said Luis Martinez, vice president and general manager of Fluor’s Southern California operations.
“With the growth we’re experiencing today, we need to address the volume of work,” he said.
Fluor held a job fair last month in Long Beach where roughly 500 engineers, designers and others were interviewed for the company’s oil and chemical industry work.
“We look to grow by another 300 people here in Orange County,” Martinez said.
The vacancies should be filled by next spring, he said.
For more on this story, see the Oct. 2 edition of the Business Journal.
