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Current Opportunities To Join Our Award-Winning Team at GFDA in Great Falls, Montana
Government Contracting Advisor–APEX Accelerator Are you driven, curious, and ready to make a real impact? Do you bring both analytical thinking and strong relationship skills—able to break down complex problems while building trust with business…
GFDA Top Ten for 7/19/26
GFDA has some great Career Opportunities! https://growgreatfallsmontana.org/about/team/careers/
GFDA Wins THREE Impact Awards from NADO
GFDA has been honored with three 2026 Aliceann Wohlbruck Impact Awards from the National Association of Development Organizations (NADO), recognizing innovative projects that strengthen communities, expand economic opportunity, and improve quality of life through regional collaboration.
Livability in Great Falls, Montana
With a strong entrepreneurial spirit and a community that supports new ideas, Great Falls continues to attract people ready to work, live and grow in Montana. See why people are choosing Great Falls! Gain access to entrepreneurial resources and support at GrowGreatFalls.org. Discover careers, lifestyle resources and relocation tools at LiveInGreatFalls.com.
GFDA Upcoming Business Trainings and Events
Questions about our trainings? Contact Jamie! Jamie Rapley [email protected] 1-406-750-4481
GFDA Top Ten for 7/12/26
Day 1! Janicki Industries broke ground on its aerospace manufacturing campus in the Great Falls AgriTech Park. The $800 million investment in 1.6 million square feet of production space will create over 2,000 jobs at full build-out! Hundreds of community members participated in a town hall, the groundbreaking event and a celebration held downtown. Janicki launched a Montana section in their website with information about the project.
See KRTV, KFBB, TheElectric and BusinessWire.
Janicki is expanding to Great Falls, Montana. 2,000+ Jobs
Janicki is a privately owned engineering and manufacturing company with locations in Washington, Utah and, soon, Montana. Founded in 1993, Janicki designs and builds composite and metallic tooling, parts, prototypes and assemblies for customers across aerospace, defense, space, marine and other industries. Janicki is one of the largest privately owned Tier 1 aerospace suppliers in the United States, with more than 2,000 employees company wide.
GFDA Top Ten for 7/5/26
Janicki is hosting a Community Forum at 5:30 PM on Thursday, (7/9) in Heritage Hall at Great Falls College MSU. Please RSVP here so we have enough seats.
Great Falls, Montana Set for Economic Boom with Major Investments and GFDA Leadership
“We just didn’t see a replacement for that economic growth through the ’80s and ’90s,” said Jolene Schalper, executive vice president of the Great Falls Development Alliance. “But we reformulated how we approached our community growth then. We took time in the early 2000s to say, as a community, ‘We need to hone in on the key elements here.’”
GFDA Top Thirteen for 6/21/26
Our team worked with two entrepreneurs who ran out of working capital to manage their business growth. We are helping them calculate their new working capital needs and repackage all their debt to help them succeed into the future. We offer creative financing solutions to help businesses succeed. Financing questions, call Shandi to discuss 1-406-590-9037.