SHANNON, Miss. (AP) — Raybern Foods is looking to fill 200 jobs as soon as possible at its newest production facility in Mississippi.

The Hayword, California-based company announced in January it was transferring production of its deli sandwich line to the former Sara Lee building in the Tupelo Lee Industrial Park in Shannon.

Company officials said Thursday that the hiring process has started. The facility is being renovated, and equipment will be moved into it next month.

“We’re doing all the recruiting between now and the middle of June, then we’ll train the workforce and we’ll plan to be up and running in the beginning of July,” said Matt Amigh, Raybern’s chief operating officer.

Amigh told the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal (http://bit.ly/1Gf8khd) the company will likely ramp up to 250 employees to start, with the addition of contract workers. The remaining 200 will be full-time employees.

Raybern is investing $10 million, and the move will give the company much-needed capacity to grow.

“We have a very aggressive growth agenda,” Amigh said. “We’re looking into expanding into different channels and into new innovative items. . we’re looking at significant growth, and with that comes jobs. If you look at the facility we have here, it’s about 50 percent larger than what we have in California, so we can double our capacity.”

Raybern already is in Wal-Marts, Sam’s Clubs and Costco stores across the country.

The company didn’t have the capacity to expand any more in California and had to start looking elsewhere to grow.

The company will produce about 700,000 sandwiches a week – about 35 million a year.