Georgia Quick Start broke ground last week for the Hyundai Mobility Training Center of Georgia. The center is located on state property adjacent to Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America (HMGMA) near Ellabell, Ga., in Bryan County. This will be the first training center in Georgia dedicated exclusively to the electric vehicle (EV) market, ensuring future HMGMA team members will be prepared for success. It will be operated by Georgia Quick Start to train employees for HMGMA as well as affiliate companies such as Mobis, Glovis and Transys. HMGMA’s electric vehicle manufacturing facility is currently under construction and is projected to create more than 8,000 jobs in coming years.
Quick Start’s Hyundai Mobility Training Center of Georgia is slated to be completed in late 2025, but Quick Start has already been providing training for HMGMA and supplier companies through its existing Quick Start Advanced Manufacturing Training Center located in Pooler, Ga. Additionally, Quick Start has established temporary training sites at three locations to further support HMGMA and its affiliates.
“This is a historic project,” said Mark Peevy, chief of staff for the Technical College System of Georgia. “Georgia is becoming a global leader in the cleantech sector, and Quick Start’s workforce training at this new training center is a major milestone in our journey.”
HMGMA’s president and CEO Oscar Kwon said, “Today’s groundbreaking is a milestone in our partnership with Georgia Quick Start, the Technical College System of Georgia and the State of Georgia. Our relationship, symbolized by this training center, will ensure our stable operation, continuous improvement, and future success for decades to come.”
Quick Start’s deputy commissioner Scott McMurray emceed the program, which also included speakers Carter Infinger, chairman of the Savannah Harbor-Interstate-16 Corridor Joint Development Authority, and Brent Stubbs, senior manager for learning and development at HMGMA.
“Quick Start’s success relies on partnerships, and today’s groundbreaking and training plan signing couldn’t have happened without all of you here today,” McMurray said.
“A groundbreaking can appear to be the first step,” he added. “But, this milestone has been reached only after months of vigilant, rigorous and creative effort by our team and our partners.”
The Hyundai Mobility Training Center of Georgia is being designed by the SSOE Group and will be built by Choate Construction. Georgia Quick Start, a division within TCSG, will operate the 89,000-square-foot facility.
ABOUT GEORGIA QUICK START
Georgia Quick Start is a program within the Technical College System of Georgia that offers customized workforce training to qualified companies as a discretionary incentive to support investment and job creation in the state. Surveys conducted by industry publications have consistently ranked Quick Start the No. 1 workforce training program in the U.S.
ABOUT HYUNDAI MOTOR GROUP METAPLANT AMERICA
Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America (HMGMA) is Hyundai Motor Group’s first dedicated Electric Vehicle mass-production plant and is in Bryan County, Georgia. The new plant will boast a highly connected, automated, and flexible manufacturing system, which organically connects all elements of the EV ecosystem to realize customer value.
