The Tulsa Regional Chamber announces nearly 300 new jobs are coming to Tulsa.
That’s a combined number from a handful of companies in industries targeted by the Tulsa’s Future program. The industries it targets are energy, aerospace and aviation, healthcare, transportation and logistics, advanced manufacturing, information technology, and professional services and regional headquarters.
A chamber economist estimates the jobs will support an estimated 738 additional jobs in the area and a total income of more than $90 million.
Richard Havir with aircraft parts maker M&M Manufacturing said the company’s business more than doubled in the last 14 months.
"The industry is very robust, very strong, to the point where you have some of the premier aviation manufacturing jobs in the world — not the country, not the state — in the world right here in northeast Oklahoma," Havir said.
M&M added 25 jobs this year and expects to add another 25 next year.
Another company adding jobs is aircraft parts maker Janeway Machine in Sapulpa. President Tonya Janeway said more work keeps coming in, so she’s looking for CNC machinists now.
"We have won a contract out of New York, so we're bringing work from New York here, and we have won two contracts from two different companies out of California," Janeway said.
Tulsa’s Future launched in 2011. The chamber claims the program has had a hand in more than 27,000 jobs and almost $2 billion in capital investment.
