Brycon To Seek 200 for Project

An Arizona project has Rio Rancho-based Brycon Construction planning a major hiring drive in late September.

Brycon plans to recruit 200 workers for a clean-room project at Intel’s fabrication plant in Chandler, near Phoenix. The company has already transferred one of its top managers to Arizona and offered jobs on the Chandler project to 40 of its New Mexico workers, said Phil Casaus, Brycon’s chief financial officer.

He expects the Chandler project to last about 18 months.

Brycon was founded in Rio Rancho in 1990 and has had a presence in Arizona for many years. The company also opened an office off Jefferson NE, north of Paseo del Norte in Albuquerque, a few months ago.

Although the majority of its workload has shifted to Arizona, Brycon will keep its headquarters in Rio Rancho, Casaus said.

Brycon currently has 130 employees in New Mexico. The addition of the new employees will bring its Arizona workforce up to 600.

Through work the company did at the Rio Rancho Intel plant, Brycon developed expertise in construction of clean rooms, which are environments that must be maintained free of contaminants, such as dust or bacteria, used in laboratory work and in the production of precision parts for electronic or aerospace equipment.

In New Mexico, Brycon is currently working on a $15 million expansion project at a hospital in Española, projects at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center in Santa Fe, at Sandia National Laboratories and at the Intel plant in Rio Rancho.