Hampton Lumber hiring event set for Allendale County sawmill jobs
Hampton Lumber will recruit in Fairfax on July 22 for mill jobs tied to its first East Coast sawmill in Allendale County, expected to start up in early 2027.
A July 22 hiring event in Fairfax will give Allendale County job seekers an early shot at Hampton Lumber’s staffing push for the sawmill the company says it is building for early 2027 start-up. SC Works posted the event on July 13, putting the recruiting effort at the Advanced Manufacturing Innovation Center on Allendale-Fairfax Highway.
The event is set for Wednesday, July 22, from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and is aimed at filling 80 full-time day-shift positions, including machine operators, crane operators and forklift workers. Hampton Lumber’s South Carolina project page says the company is actively building its candidate pipeline now, before the mill is fully online, and says it will also need workers in entry-level production and cleanup, maintenance and electrical trades, equipment operation, supervision, safety and human resources.
Hampton Lumber says the Allendale County project will be its first sawmill on the East Coast and will specialize in high-quality Southern Yellow Pine framing lumber. The company says the mill will eventually provide 125 to 140 new jobs in the area once it is fully operational, a figure that gives the Fairfax hiring event outsized importance for workers looking for stable industrial jobs close to home.
State officials announced the project on June 24, 2025, saying Hampton Lumber had chosen Allendale County for a $225 million investment that would create at least 125 jobs. The planned facility has been described as a 375,000-square-foot mill near Fairfax that is expected to produce framing lumber used in home construction. Hampton Lumber is a fourth-generation, family-owned producer of wood products sourced from sustainably managed forest resources, and state officials have said the mill is part of a broader push for housing-material production and long-term economic growth.
For Allendale County, Fairfax and nearby communities, the hiring event is one of the clearest signs yet that the project is moving beyond site development and into the labor market. The July 22 turnout will show how much of the county’s next wave of industrial work can be filled locally as Hampton Lumber moves toward its 2027 opening.
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