330 Car-Seat Jobs Head to Blythewood, South Carolina, With Brose Sitech's New Plant

Car seat maker Brose Sitech will invest $29.5 million and create 330 new jobs in Richland County, South Carolina, at what will be its first US manufacturing facility. The plant sits in the Scout Supplier Park in Blythewood, on the site of Scout Motors' Blythewood electric vehicle assembly plant, and it will supply the new Scout Motors plant with complete car seat sets. Operations are expected to be online in 2027, and the company has already posted its first Blythewood roles on the Brose Sitech job offers page. For Metaintro readers in the Midlands, this guide covers what the plant will make, which roles are open now, what those listings ask for, and how this plant fits into the wider wave of Scout supplier job pledges.

What Exactly Did Brose Sitech Announce in South Carolina?

The plant was made public on 28 October 2026 in a South Carolina Department of Commerce release.

The site is the Just in Time facility in the Scout Supplier Park, where Brose Sitech will run a 140,000-square-foot facility. The 330 jobs are a hiring pledge for a plant that is not yet running, and the company did not give an average wage or any other details on what it plans to pay employees.

Brose Sitech has not published a hiring timeline, and no state incentive came with the project. Executive Vice President Juan-Carlos Kieler called the U.S. a significant automotive market with strong opportunities for future growth and said the plant lays the foundation for Brose Sitech's long-term development in North America.

Who Is Brose Sitech, and Who Owns It?

Brose Sitech develops and produces complete seats, structures and other seat components. It has its global headquarters in Poland and 22 locations internationally, including its regional headquarters office in Detroit.

The Brose Sitech Group is a joint venture between Brose and Volkswagen that began operations in 2022, with each partner holding 50 percent of the new joint venture. It grew out of the Volkswagen subsidiary Sitech, which was founded in Polkowice, Poland, in 1998.

Scout Motors, the customer in Blythewood, is the Volkswagen subsidiary whose electric vehicle assembly plant is under construction there, so the seat supplier and the carmaker both have Volkswagen as an owner, since Brose Sitech is a joint venture between Brose and Volkswagen.

On its current About us page, Brose Sitech gives a workforce of more than 8,000 people at sites in Poland, Germany, the Czech Republic, Portugal, Spain, Morocco, India and China. The aim of the joint venture is to expand the seat system business worldwide, double production and establish Brose Sitech as a global player in the seat market.

Establishing our first manufacturing location in Blythewood is an important milestone for Brose Sitech, Executive Vice President Juan-Carlos Kieler said, according to the Commerce announcement.

Which Blythewood Jobs Is Brose Sitech Already Advertising?

The first local roles are already on the Brose Sitech job offers page, which mixes US postings with roles in Poland, Germany and China. The Blythewood listings on the job offers page also include an EHS Manager role and an MP&L Manager role.

Three of the Blythewood roles on the job offers page set out their tasks and requirements in full.

• A Senior Maintenance Technician, listed under Engineers
• A Production Supervisor role, listed under Management
• An ECR Change Coordinator, listed under Specialists

These are skilled and leadership manufacturing jobs. No production operator or assembler role for Blythewood is listed yet on the job offers page, so most of the pledged jobs have not been posted.

What Does the Senior Maintenance Technician Role Ask For?

The Senior Maintenance Technician role requires an Associate Degree, Technical Diploma, or equivalent qualification in Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Industrial Maintenance, Automation Technology, or a related field.

It also wants 5+ years of experience in industrial maintenance within a manufacturing environment, including troubleshooting and repair of automated production equipment, plus strong PLC programming and troubleshooting skills (Siemens preferred), with experience in commissioning and optimizing automated systems. The technician also needs excellent problem-solving, communication, and teamwork skills.

The daily work is hands-on. The technician will be troubleshooting and repairing electrical, mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and PLC-controlled systems and keeping maintenance records in the computerized maintenance management system (CMMS/SAP PM). The role also serves as the technical expert and mentor for the maintenance team.

The last requirement is experience with SAP PM and knowledge of ISO 14001, TS 16949, and OSHA requirements. Workers earlier in a trades career can see how an electrician apprenticeship works before aiming at a senior maintenance role like this one.

What Do the Supervisor and Change Coordinator Roles Require?

The Production Supervisor role requires a technical degree or equivalent hands-on manufacturing experience, with demonstrated success in production leadership or supervisory role. It also wants at least 5 years' experience in a manufacturing environment, ideally with leadership or supervisory responsibilities, along with strong leadership, communication, and team-building skills and strong organizational and problem-solving skills.

That supervisor will be developing and implementing shift schedules and workforce plans and leading improvement work using Lean Manufacturing principles such as 5S, Kaizen, and Standard Work. Knowing the systems helps too, as proficiency in Microsoft Office and production-related systems (e.g., SAP, MES) preferred is on the list.

The ECR Change Coordinator is a launch role. The person will serve as the primary plant coordinator for Engineering Change Requests (ECRs), Engineering Change Orders (ECOs), deviation permits and related work, and will coordinate prototype, first sample, pilot, pre-series, and launch builds.

A degree helps but is not the only route. The ECR Change Coordinator role prefers a Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, Business Administration, or a related field, and adds that equivalent experience in manufacturing, production, logistics, or project coordination will also be considered, alongside a minimum five years' experience in a manufacturing environment, preferably in Engineering, Production, Logistics, Industrialization, Program Management, or Change Management.

The coordinator also needs experience with engineering change management processes, product launches, or manufacturing process changes, strong project coordination, organizational, and problem-solving skills, and experience with ERP/MRP systems (e.g., SAP), MES systems and Microsoft Office applications.

What Benefits Do the Blythewood Listings Offer?

None of the three detailed listings (maintenance, supervisor, change coordinator) gives a salary or hourly rate. The maintenance and supervisor roles carry the same package.

• Paid time off and paid holidays
• A 401(k) plan
• Health, dental and vision plans, with high-quality medical plan options
• A relocation package

The ECR Change Coordinator role offers the same package, and its Benefits at BSG panel adds a performance bonus and an individual raise.

All three listings (maintenance, supervisor, change coordinator) are for Blythewood (USA), and each one offers a relocation package. For a sense of what the Scout campus itself has paid, Scout's 76 early factory hires, who will set up and keep the plant's machinery and robotics running, held jobs that paid between $30 and $37.50 an hour, depending on the worker's experience in February 2026. That is Scout's own rate, not a Brose Sitech offer.

What Is the Scout Supplier Park, and How Many Jobs Is It Meant to Hold?

Scout Motors unveiled the park in September 2025 as an additional investment of $300 million in South Carolina to build a Supplier Park on the site of its Production Center in Blythewood. The park was expected to support approximately 1,000 additional supplier jobs, and it will not come with any new government incentives.

The park spans nearly 200 acres and will feature more than 2.3 million square feet of specialized manufacturing and logistics space across three key centers. One of them is the Just in Time (JIT) Facility dedicated to sequencing parts for final vehicle assembly, and Brose Sitech will be located at the Just in Time facility.

The other two centers are a Battery Assembly Building designed for high-volume battery assembly and an Accessories Building to support upfitting and installation of vehicle accessories.

When we announced we would build an on-site Supplier Park at the Scout Motors Production Center last year, we promised it would lead to even more jobs, investment and economic prosperity in South Carolina, Scout Motors President and CEO Scott Keogh said, according to the Commerce announcement.

How Does This Fit Into Scout's Wider Hiring in South Carolina?

The seat plant is one piece of a much bigger build. Scout's $2 billion assembly plant will employ 4,000 workers and produce 200,000 vehicles annually once operating at full capacity, sometime in 2030 or 2031.

More than 17,000 South Carolinians have submitted their names expressing interest in Scout jobs, Keogh said in April, and every Scout hire will go through hands-on instruction using simulators and mock work stations, whether the person has past manufacturing experience or not.

Suppliers outside Blythewood have pledged jobs too. Seven Upstate parts makers pledged to invest a total of $82 million in their existing facilities across Spartanburg, Duncan and Piedmont and hire 200 South Carolinians, with Spartanburg Steel planning a $40 million expansion that will create 60 jobs.

Further south, a Sodecia and Aapico partnership unveiled in December 2025 plans to open a $120 million factory in Orangeburg and hire 392 people to build vehicle frames. Scout's vehicles are now expected to hit the market in 2028, with testing in phases throughout 2027.

Is Richland County Adding Other Manufacturing Jobs Too?

Yes. On 27 October 2026, steel fabricator SteelFab committed to a $30 million investment that will create 100 new jobs in Richland County, at a facility at 1030 Metso Way in Columbia.

SteelFab's operations are expected to be online by the end of 2026. For SteelFab, the state's Coordinating Council for Economic Development approved job development credits related to the project.

SteelFab's plant will serve the construction industry, not carmakers, so it is a second, separate set of factory jobs coming to the same county for workers who want manufacturing jobs outside the auto supply chain.

How Does Scout Recruit and Train New Workers, and What Is readySC?

In its February 2026 assembly hiring round, Scout took applications online at the Scout Motors hiring site, where applicants are screened by Ready SC, an offshoot of the state technical college system that runs training programs for new companies. Those hired will spend their first two weeks going through general training on company policies and benefits, and after that they branch off into training specific to where in the factory they're working.

readySC, a division of the SC Technical College System, exists to provide customized recruiting and training solutions to companies bringing new jobs to the state through relocation or expansion. It was established in 1961 and works with the 16 technical colleges.

Whether Brose Sitech will use readySC is not yet public, so for now the Brose Sitech job offers page is the place its Blythewood roles appear.

What This Means for Job Seekers in the Midlands, and What Should You Do Next?

Most of the pledged jobs are not open yet. The company expects to begin operations in 2027, and the Blythewood roles on Brose Sitech's current jobs board are for experienced maintenance, supervision and launch staff. The maintenance, supervisor and change coordinator listings each ask for at least five years in manufacturing.

If you have less experience, watch two places at once. Brose Sitech roles appear on its careers page, while Scout human resources head Clarice Henderson said in February 2026 that the assembly hiring round was open to people who have never worked in a factory before. Scout's earlier factory hiring round, by contrast, sought applicants with at least three years of prior manufacturing work experience.

• Match the listed skills. PLC work, Siemens preferred, and Lean tools like 5S, Kaizen, and Standard Work are named directly, so put them high on your resume if you have them.
• Ask about pay early. No wage has been published, so raise pay in the first call.
• Look at the wider supplier map. The Upstate supplier expansions and the Orangeburg frame plant have pledged jobs for the same customer.

Lacey Kaelani, Metaintro's CEO, puts it this way: A new plant hires the people who build the line before the people who run it, so the first postings show which skills the site will value later.

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People Also Asked

Q: How many jobs will Brose Sitech create in Blythewood?

A: Brose Sitech's $29.5 million investment will create 330 new jobs at its plant in the Scout Supplier Park in Blythewood.

Q: When will the Brose Sitech plant open?

A: Operations are expected to be online in 2027.

Q: Where do I apply for Brose Sitech jobs in South Carolina?

A: Blythewood roles are posted on the Brose Sitech job offers page, where the location is listed as Blythewood (USA).

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