Nucor plans to invest another $105 million in its utility towers and structures operation in Crawfordsville, Indiana, adding 100 jobs as utilities expand and modernize the electric grid.
The company said the positions are expected to pay average annual wages of $87,500. Indiana economic-development officials said the jobs are expected to be created by the end of 2029.
The project will add roughly 125,000 square feet to the Crawfordsville operation, which began production in 2025. Nucor said the added capacity will be used to manufacture utility poles and related products for power transmission and distribution infrastructure.
The expansion is notable because it combines additional manufacturing employment with relatively high advertised average wages. At $87,500 a year, the stated average is well above the pay level associated with many production expansions, although the company has not published a role-by-role wage distribution.
Nucor also said the facility will use advanced manufacturing, automation and hot-dip galvanizing operations. That mix means the hiring demand is likely to extend beyond general production work into maintenance, technical, quality, logistics and supervisory roles.
The investment is tied to a broader infrastructure cycle. Electric utilities are spending heavily on transmission, distribution and grid resilience while electricity demand is being pushed higher by industrial projects and data centers. For labor markets around those projects, the result is a widening need for workers who can operate and maintain increasingly automated manufacturing systems.
