Faraday Future employee base grows as innovative car company expands Kings County presence

For starters, the company’s expectations include predictions that the electric vehicle production company – housed in the former Pirelli Tire plant – may evolve into one of Kings County’s largest employers. According to company officials, there are about 200 employees currently working at the Hanford facility, a plant that for the past year has undergone an impressive facelift as it prepares to produce the next wave of electric-based cars.

Recently hired, these employees were welcomed officially by members of the Faraday Future leadership team.

Faraday Future labels itself as a clean-energy intelligent mobility company with its headquarters in Southern California. It boasts that it has brought the leading thinkers and creators together to create an efficient product and the “first” intelligent vehicle to people worldwide.

Dag Reckhorn, a senior vice president of manufacturing, told The Leader that the company expects to employ 300 by the end of 2018 and 1,000 by 2019. “The plan right now is to produce the first car at the end of the year.”

Many of the new hires have been local.

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The company has worked hard to bring the new plant up to speed, and that included revamping what was once a productive tire plant. “It (plant) was in pretty poor shape, and it was abandoned more or less in 2001. That’s when Pirelli moved out, and we actually brought everything up to code. And we did everything the city demanded from us,” said Reckhorn.

Faraday Future continues to hire top talent in all departments within engineering, functional sales, marketing, and manufacturing.

The company, in a display of employee appreciation, showed off a bunch of its new hires on Tuesday, introducing the new employees to the facility and many of its top officials. All newly hired employees will be welcomed. Each group will have completed 40 hours of business and teamwork essentials training organized by the College of the Sequoias and paid for the state’s Employment Training Panel (ETP) program.

Hanford City Manager Darrell Pyle, representing the city, gave a sort of pep talk to the newly-hired workforce as Faraday’s human resources official, Vince Nguyen, looked on and also welcomed the sizeable group of new hires.

Recently, the company unveiled the first pre-production FF91, assembled at the Hanford facility. Until now, FF has been testing a few beta prototype vehicles. Once in production Faraday officials expect the new car to have impressive specs with over 300 miles of range and solid performance. While the company hasn’t released the customer cost for the “ultra-luxury intelligent EV,” it is expected to be pricey.