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Orion engineers announces move to Baton Rouge
Posted on 10/27/25 at 1:27 pm
Posted on 10/27/25 at 1:27 pm
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BATON ROUGE, La. – Orion Engineers + Constructors announced it will relocate its corporate headquarters from Theodore, Alabama, to Baton Rouge. The move reflects the company’s commitment to growth, innovation and delivering enhanced value to employees and clients nationwide.
The company is expected to create 50 direct new jobs with an average annual salary of $100,000, which is 153% of the average East Baton Rouge Parish wage, while retaining 45 current positions.
Founded in 2001, Orion Engineers + Constructors is a full-service project integrator supporting manufacturing, oil and gas, refining, chemicals, life sciences, energy, government and renewables clients. Relocation of corporate operations will begin immediately, with construction on the new headquarters expected to be complete by June 2030.
This board is always filled with negative news, figured we could use a change of pace.
BATON ROUGE, La. – Orion Engineers + Constructors announced it will relocate its corporate headquarters from Theodore, Alabama, to Baton Rouge. The move reflects the company’s commitment to growth, innovation and delivering enhanced value to employees and clients nationwide.
The company is expected to create 50 direct new jobs with an average annual salary of $100,000, which is 153% of the average East Baton Rouge Parish wage, while retaining 45 current positions.
Founded in 2001, Orion Engineers + Constructors is a full-service project integrator supporting manufacturing, oil and gas, refining, chemicals, life sciences, energy, government and renewables clients. Relocation of corporate operations will begin immediately, with construction on the new headquarters expected to be complete by June 2030.
This board is always filled with negative news, figured we could use a change of pace.
This post was edited on 10/27/25 at 1:29 pm
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Posted on 10/27/25 at 1:30 pm to Swagga
50 more cars on the interstate at rush hour.
Posted on 10/27/25 at 1:31 pm to Jim Rockford
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50 more cars on the interstate at rush hour.
At least they will be legal and insured.
Posted on 10/27/25 at 1:35 pm to Swagga
Would love to see the reasoning behind this move
Mobile is a much better place to live and do business than BR
Mobile is a much better place to live and do business than BR
Posted on 10/27/25 at 1:38 pm to Swagga
Why would any company willingly move to BR?
Posted on 10/27/25 at 1:43 pm to Miglez
I don’t know, but this is much needed. We’ve had a lot of industrial projects announced recently and those places need engineers.
Hopefully we can continue the momentum and start keeping talent at home.
Hopefully we can continue the momentum and start keeping talent at home.
Posted on 10/27/25 at 1:48 pm to Swagga
quote:any idea where in BR? St. George for permanent relocation but prior to that?
Relocation of corporate operations will begin immediately,
This post was edited on 10/27/25 at 1:50 pm
Posted on 10/27/25 at 1:54 pm to Miglez
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To secure the project in Baton Rouge, the state of Louisiana offered Orion Engineers + Constructors a competitive incentives package that includes the Quality Jobs program and a $500,000 performance-based grant.
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Louisiana’s Quality Jobs (QJ) Program promotes economic development by incentivizing eligible companies that create net new jobs in the state. The QJ program is a quasi-statutory program that requires an Advance Notification, application, and approval by Louisiana Economic Development (LED). By creating jobs earning competitive wages in the state, companies can receive cash rebates for up to 10 years in conjunction with a state sales/use tax rebate or a project facility expense rebate.
Always, always, follow the money trail
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The sales/use tax rebate is available on purchases of materials used in the construction of a building, or any addition or improvement thereon, for housing any legitimate business enterprise and machinery and equipment used in that enterprise. In addition to the state rebate, a company can pursue an endorsement resolution from localities to refund their portion of sales/use tax.
The project facility expense rebate is 1.5% of the amount of qualified capital expenditures.
https://info.siteselectiongroup.com/blog/louisiana-quality-jobs-program-overview
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Companies providing jobs that pay 125% of the parish average will receive a grant to cover 18% of each salary. The award goes up to 22% for salaries at 150% of the local level.
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There are no limits in the bill on the number of new jobs a company can add to claim the benefit, though the bill gives state officials the right to update the program’s rules. There is a ceiling of $200,000 per year per job and $125 million in annual grant awards for the entire program.
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Legislative calculations attached to Emerson’s proposal peg the High Impact Job Program’s average cost to the state at $69.4 million annually over the next five years.
https://lailluminator.com/2025/05/11/louisiana-incentive/
This post was edited on 10/27/25 at 2:09 pm
Posted on 10/27/25 at 1:54 pm to Swagga
That's what we need is another consultant to carry out a BR loop study do-over.
Posted on 10/27/25 at 1:55 pm to Miglez
Advocate says St. George
Posted on 10/27/25 at 1:56 pm to W2NOMO
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any idea where in BR?
That back road to CCLA
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Address: 726 Highlandia Dr, Baton Rouge, LA 70810
Posted on 10/27/25 at 2:10 pm to Swagga
Is this the same company trying to buy up all the farmland and cattle pastures between St Francisville and New Roads?
Posted on 10/27/25 at 2:10 pm to Jim Rockford
quote:You mean F250s?
50 more cars on the interstate at rush hour.
Posted on 10/27/25 at 3:15 pm to Miglez
They already have an office in BR. It will just be the main headquarters now and not the Mobile office.
Posted on 10/27/25 at 3:54 pm to Swagga
Good. We could use the jobs.
And I think they said St. George, not Baton Rouge. But I don't know if that's just because they have a remote office in St. George now or because they are eyeing a specific piece of real estate in St. George for the future.
And I think they said St. George, not Baton Rouge. But I don't know if that's just because they have a remote office in St. George now or because they are eyeing a specific piece of real estate in St. George for the future.
This post was edited on 10/27/25 at 3:59 pm
Posted on 10/27/25 at 3:55 pm to lsufan0229
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It will just be the main headquarters now and not the Mobile office.
The Advocate and BR Business report both said that they are building or buying a new HQ building somewhere. My guess is somewhere off Industriplex or Airline with more square footage for the additional employees.
Probably a flex space with an office building out front and some kind of lab/workshop behind it.
This post was edited on 10/27/25 at 3:56 pm
Posted on 10/27/25 at 3:56 pm to glassart
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Is this the same company trying to buy up all the farmland and cattle pastures between St Francisville and New Roads?
Good luck. None of the farmers ever want to sell.
Posted on 10/27/25 at 4:00 pm to Swagga
Moving because CF is one of their biggest clients, and most of CF's output is out of infrastructure in and around Baton Rouge and Donaldsonville.
If I were LED, I'd be asking CF why their corporate office is still outside Chicago and not in Baton Rouge or New Orleans.
That's sort of how we got Placid here. Their refining ops were all in Louisiana....they decided not to keep their fairly small corporate ops by itself in Dallas and moved it to downtown BR.
If I were LED, I'd be asking CF why their corporate office is still outside Chicago and not in Baton Rouge or New Orleans.
That's sort of how we got Placid here. Their refining ops were all in Louisiana....they decided not to keep their fairly small corporate ops by itself in Dallas and moved it to downtown BR.
This post was edited on 10/27/25 at 4:21 pm
Posted on 10/27/25 at 4:04 pm to Shexter
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$500,000 performance-based grant.
When the terms of the grant are fulfilled they’ll move back to Alabama or maybe to another sucker State.
Posted on 10/27/25 at 4:45 pm to Swagga
I worked for them in 2001, different owners now. The original owners were pretty good dudes.
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