Americus: American Home Shield is hiring 80 people at its new customer contact center for home warranties and repair.

Athens: Carrier Transicold, which makes truck and bus refrigeration systems, is expanding operations and creating 65 jobs.

Bremen: SynchroNet is receiving Quick Start training for its fiber optic network business.

Chestnut Mountain: Crystal Farms, an eggs and poultry products company, is expanding operations and adding 25 jobs.

Columbus: MUTEC is implementing new technology at its battery-making plant and will receive Quick Start training for some of its 400 employees.

Columbus: Tom’s Foods will receive Quick Start training on new lines added to its snack foods operation.

Dublin: Parker Aerospace is hiring an additional 28 employees at its facility, which makes hydraulic, pneumatic and fuel components for aircraft and missile control systems.

Flowery Branch: Avery Dennison, a California-based firm that makes pressure-sensitive labels, is creating 30 jobs with an expansion.

Macon: Rock-Tenn is receiving Quick Start training for its plant, which makes laminated board containers for asphalt.

Nahunta: TE Consolidated is creating 50 new jobs at its mining operation for titanium and other ores.

Pendergrass: Jefferson Blanking is adding 20 jobs in an expansion of its steel blanking operation.

Rome: F&P America is adding 50 positions as it expands its automotive-suspensions manufacturing plant.

Tifton: Alliance Carpet, a division of Mohawk, has been launched to make foam carpet padding and will hire 65 people.

Toccoa: American Heritage Furniture is expanding and will add 20 jobs to help make custom hand-crafted furniture.

Trenton: MedSource Technologies, which produces catheter tubing and other medical products, is adding 60 jobs to accommodate its expansion.

Tucker: MicroPore Plastics is expanding operations and adding 23 jobs at its facility, which makes porous plastic products such as Magic Marker tips, wicks, diffusers and filters.

Waycross: Stewart Distribution, a warehouse and distribution firm originally founded in 1922 as a candy-maker, is restarting the peppermint candy operation and adding 15 employees.