Hyundai Metaplant Employees

On September 4, 2025, American law enforcement conducted an immigration raid at the Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America, an electric vehicle (EV) production site in Ellabell, Bryan County, Georgia, United States, detaining approximately 475 workers. [1][2] The raid was described as the largest immigration enforcement operation carried out at a single location by the United States Department. Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America (HMGMA) is Hyundai Motor Group's first dedicated mass-production Electrified Vehicle plant.

The all-new manufacturing facility located just outside of Savannah, Georgia is a highly-connected, automated, and flexible manufacturing system where all processes of production-order collection, procurement. The Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America, one of seven companies listed together in the Metaplant economic agreement, pay their production workers a base salary of $22.40 an hour - or around $46,592 a year - while maintenance positions start at $30.70 an hour. The innovative manufacturing system is being designed to create a human-centered work environment with robots assisting human workers to build more than 300,000 vehicles per year including Hyundai's luxury brand Genesis.

At HMGMA, we refer to our facility as the Metaplant and we refer to our employees as Meta Pros. Hyundai wants 12,500 employees working at the facility, dubbed "Metaplant America," by 2031, as it plans to produce up to 500,000 vehicles there annually. At the Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America (HMGMA) Grand Opening on March 26, President and Chief Executive Officer of Hyundai Motor Company José Muñoz shared that Hyundai planned to.

See what employees say it's like to work at Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America. Salaries, reviews, and more. At a Glance Hyundai's Metaplant employs 8,500 people on-site and contributes another 6,900 supplier jobs off-site The under-construction $4.3B battery plant would build 30 gigawatt-hours of batteries, enough for 300,000 EVs The raid was the result of a "monthslong" investigation based on local information.

Hyundai's Metaplant and its co-located supplier network cover 2,900 acres, and at $7.6 billion, represent the largest single economic development in Georgia's history. The plant employs 1,200. Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America (HMGMA) is an electric vehicle (EV) production site operated by Hyundai and located in Ellabell, Bryan County, Georgia, United States.