The Allied Crystal sugar refinery, the biggest employer in Leonard County and in all of Ambrosia, will hire 350 seasonal workers for a harvest that runs until May: truck and tractor drivers, mill hands, mechanics and lab technicians.
Leonard County and the State reemployment program are holding two hiring days in Cane Ridge. Applicants can meet the refinery’s recruiters, sign up for training and ask about reemployment benefits on the spot.
Hiring days
- Thursday, November 12, and Friday, November 13, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- Leonard County Courthouse, 2 Main Street, Cane Ridge
- Bring an ID and, for driving jobs, your commercial driver license
- Free forklift and heavy-truck training for people receiving reemployment assistance
The harvest has kept this county going for more than a century. If you want to work this winter, the jobs are here, and so is the training.
Harvest also means more trucks on the farm roads and smoke from burning fields at dusk. Drive with your low beams on, give cane trucks room on Refinery Road, and check the daily burn notices before you head out.
