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GE has helped Michigan workers and companies open jobs, grow their skills, and win new business. The company employs 3,000 workers in the state. Since June 2009, GE has hired over 850 employees at its AMSTC research center, 90 percent of them from Michigan, and has invested $163 million in the Detroit region.

In May of last year, Experienced Commercial Leadership Program (ECLP) member Dottie never would have imagined that she’d step foot in a “yard” handling construction equipment. Granted, she had experience driving a tractor before, but she did not have a lot of experience with the “heavy stuff”…. until she got her first assignment in GE’s ECLP. Dottie found out her first eight-month stint would be in sales with the Equipment Finance team and she would be moving to Dallas, Texas.

Forbes and the job aggregator site Indeed.com teamed up to find the 25 technology companies that are hiring the most right now for jobs that pay $60,000 a year, or more. The picture they offer does not reflect a precise number of available jobs, since an opening can be listed in more than one place and can remain online for a time after it’s filled. Nevertheless, the numbers do offer a strong, broad gauge of which tech companies are expanding and taking on the most new workers. GE ranked 7th.

Bob Britt’s two-year associate’s degree program in manufacturing technology is a collaboration between the college – which furnishes faculty for classroom work – and General Electric. GE needs highly trained machinists to replace the large number of employees nearing retirement at its River Works aircraft engine plant in Lynn, which has been chugging along while recovering from the 1980s recession. GE pays the students while they learn and covers the costs of their academic courses in advanced manufacturing. That’s a high-growth field, one in which Britt is virtually assured a job after graduation that pays an average of $62,400, with ample opportunity for advancement.

When Brayden came out crying and breathing on his own, Mike Mills and his wife rejoiced. But Brayden weighed just 4 pounds and 12 ounces, little more than half the weight of the average newborn. The nurses quickly laid Brayden inside a baby warmer, wheeled him into the NICU, and placed him inside an incubator. When Mike saw the hospital equipment sustaining his son, he started to worry less. He is an 11-year GE veteran and Brayden’s Panda Warmer and Giraffe OmniBed incubator were both manufactured by GE workers in Laurel, Maryland, the very factory where he serves as plant manager.