Foxconn Technology Group officials told the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. this spring that around 550 of the company’s employees in the state qualified for payroll tax credits under the Taiwanese company’s contract with the state. Combined with $280 million in capital investments, Foxconn could be eligible for around $45 million in tax credits for 2019.
An audit required by the state contract with the company and released under open records law in July provides an idea of some of the work done by Foxconn employees. While it stops short of making a judgment on whether Foxconn’s jobs qualify for tax credits, the audit did include a survey of 76 employees with questions about where each worked, job titles, start dates and place of residence.
Below are some of the responses to questions on job responsibilities and current projects:
“Currently working on designing/developing a learning platform to teach users about
Industrial Artificial Intelligence and how it can be used to upgrade the workforce.” – UI/UX designer
“Lead a 6-8 people team to enhance factories’ efficiency, yield rate. R&D machine vision system to reduce defects in final product. Survey, gather equipment list, design fixtures, set up AI systems on the production line.” – Research engineer
“1) Multi-year contracted sale of networking/communications equipment to major N. American mobile operators and enterprise clients. 2) Strategic technology solution partnership with major U.S. mobile operators and technology partners in connection to Foxconn’s Wisconsin operations.” – Director of business development
“… finding new scopes of business and conducting in-depth product research to help Foxconn find new streams of revenue and develop more suitable products/services … (currently working on) industrial AI training courses & manages the sales pipeline associated with these courses…” – Sales/business development lead
“>$600k build out for new tenant at 1 Main St. in Racine. Switchgear project at 1 W. Main in Madison. Mediation of perk structure at Watermark in Green Bay. Leasing spaces in multiple properties. Capital improvement/repairs at 601 Lake in Racine and Watermark in Green Bay.” – Site development project manager
“Manufacturing of printed circuit board assemblies for multiple customers.” – Director of factory operations
“Acquire data from various sensors and systems. Organize and clean data to be passed on to AI engineers and data analysts.” – Data engineer
“I am working with a project that focuses on server production and (provides) finished goods to a top technology company. I track along the financial activity of the project to make sure the progress is financially healthy.” – Accountant
“I am currently working on a (machine learning) project focused on video processing. The main objective in this project is to recognize and to classify the videos.” – Senior engineer machine learning
