Those who have recently moved to Richmond and are looking for employment will find a lot of exciting opportunities available to them. Richmond is home to several Fortune 500 employers such as Dominion Resources, Owens and Minor, CarMax, Performance Food Group and Genworth Financial (formerly GE). There are more Fortune 500 employers in Richmond than any other city in the state.
You will find a large number of manufacturing jobs available in the city requiring virtually every type of skill and specialization. if you can operate a plasma cutter or automatic banding machine, consider some of the amazing brands and products you could work on. Be sure to consider companies such as MeadWestvaco, a leading international packaging manufacturer that recently relocated to Richmond.
Many of the Fortune 1000 corporations and manufacturers in the city rely on a large and growing economy of suppliers. If you know the difference between Bite Type fittings and catalytic converters, there are frequent openings for purchasing managers and client representatives with Richmond's small and medium sized businesses.
Be sure to also consider the growing retail sector. There are often openings for clerks and managers who can sell supplies for a new baby, sleeping bags to a camper or camera to a photographer.
Richmond has a strong market for IT professionals. There is a growing need for people who can develop anything from a collaborative employee database to a commercial online printing service. Be sure to become familiar with the area's technology sector employers such as Cavalier Telephone and Spruance Plant, a production facility of DuPont.
You will also find that there are a number of great jobs in the sciences available in the city. You working at one of the city's local universities on time and frequency standards or discovering new treatments in the city's thriving biomedical research and development sector. Richmond is home to the new Virgina BioTechnology Research Park which incubates projects for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Located near the Medical College of Virginia Campus of Virginia Commonwealth University
Another large area employer is specialty chemicals manufacturer Altria Group. Altria's company Philip Morris tobacco and Capital One are the two largest employers. Capital One Financial Corporation has its operations center and most employees in the Richmond area. Universal Corporation, who are also in the tobacco business, have a large corporate headquarters in the city. Philip Morris has recently opened a research and development facility in the city that employs over 3,000 city residents.
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