Companies find Sherman to be an excellent community for the manufacturing industry. Twelve percent of the workforce is employed in the Manufacturing sector. The top manufacturing sectors are semiconductors and support, food and beverage processing, metal fabrication and equipment, and plastics. There are several industry leading companies with operations in Sherman including Texas Instruments, Tyson Foods, Emerson, GlobiTech, Eaton, Alpla, Kaiser Aluminum, Starr Aircraft, Sunny Delight, Consolidated Container, and Finisar. The local workforce offers a variety of skills and is experienced in manufacturing processes. The prevailing wages are competitive.
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Sherman-Denison is a one-county metropolitan statistical area (Grayson County). Grayson County has an immediate workforce of 63,159. The three-county workforce includes 98,186. In the total Sherman labor market, in which the city draws labor from an approx. 60-mile radius, the workforce includes 2,129,142. Sherman employers regularly attract workers from adjacent rural counties, fast growing Dallas suburbs to the south and southern Oklahoma to the north. [Sources: Texas Workforce Commission, Applied Geographic Solutions]
SEDCO actively partners with the Denison Development Alliance, Grayson College, Workforce Solutions Texoma, area Independent School Districts and manufacturers in an effort to develop a talent pipeline of middle-skills workers for Advanced Manufacturing occupations. These efforts include the following:
Learn more about the Career & Technical Education Program at Sherman Independent School District and the Building Bearcats initiative.
[Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, May 2019]
Industrial Engineers
$39.32
General & Operations Managers
$35.68
First-Line Supervisors of Production & Operating Workers
$29.19
Industrial Machinery Mechanics
$23.85
Machinists
$22.72
Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers & Weighers
$17.52
Welders, Cutters, Solderers & Brazers
$17.45
Office & Administrative Support
$16.34
Industrial Truck & Tractor Operators
$15.11
Assemblers & Fabricators
$14.68
Helpers – Production Workers
$14.68
Computer Numerically Controlled Tool Operators
$14.25
Building & Grounds Cleaning & Maintenance
$12.28
Food & Beverage
Semiconductors and Related Industries
Metal Products / Equipment Production
Plastic Products
Back Office Processing
Distribution / Logistics
Healthcare Services
Retail
Tyson
Case Ready Beef & Pork
1,750
Sherman Independent School District
Public Schools
1,137
Texas Instruments
Semiconductors
700
Grayson County
Local Government
560
Wilson N. Jones Regional Medical Center
Hospital
489
City of Sherman
Local Government
486
Alorica
Call Center
452
II-VI
Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers
385
Wal-Mart / Sam’s
Retail
375
Royal Case
Carrying Cases
371
Emerson
Rotary Control Valves
350
Austin College
College
322
Eaton B-Line
Metal Enclosures
270
Heritage Park Surgical Hospital
Hospital
250
Carrus Hospital
Hospital
205
GlobiTech
Silicon-epitaxy Services
200
Presco
Flexible PVC Film
180
Douglass Distributing
Fuel Distribution
174
Capio
Call Center
155
Kaiser Aluminum
Aluminum Extrusions
154
Progress Rail Services
Rail Turnouts & Frogs
136
Plyler Construction
Construction, Steel Fabrication
130
ActiTech
Personal Care Products
130
Modular Power Solutions
Power Skids for Data Centers
108
Starr Aircraft
Commercial Aircraft Interior Products
105
Sunny Delight
Beverages
88
Altium Packaging
Plastic Bottles & Containers
83
Tyson
Case Ready Beef & Pork
1,750
Texas Instruments
Semiconductors
700
II-VI
Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers
385
Royal Case
Carrying Cases
371
Emerson
Rotary Control Valves
350
Eaton B-Line
Metal Enclosures
270
GlobiTech
Silicon-epitaxy Services
200
Presco
Flexible PVC Film
180
Kaiser Aluminum
Aluminum Extrusions
154
Progress Rail Services
Rail Turnouts & Frogs
136
ActiTech
Personal Care Products
130
Modular Power Solutions
Power Skids for Data Centers
108
Starr Aircraft
Commercial Aircraft Interior Products
105
Sunny Delight
Beverages
88
Altium Packaging
Plastic Bottles & Containers
83
Grayson College is the two-year community college serving the Sherman area. It offers degree programs for further advancement, workforce readiness programs and community enrichment classes. Additionally, the Center for Workplace Learning at Grayson College will partner with companies to design customized training programs for new employees at a Sherman facility. Designated Grayson College staff stands ready to work with company personnel and equipment manufacturers to develop and implement curriculum for the specific skills needed in the new facility.
Austin College is a private, residential, co-educational college dedicated to educating undergraduate students in the liberal arts and sciences while also offering select pre-professional programs and a graduate teacher education program. Founded by the Presbyterian Church in 1849, Austin College emphasizes academic excellence, intellectual and personal integrity and participation in community life. Austin College has approximately 1,400 students and is consistently ranked as one of the country’s best small colleges by US News and World Report.