A local medical device manufacturer expects to hire 200 employees this year as it grows its new West Carrollton manufacturing site. NuVasive ended 2016 with 49 local employees at the location and is working now to hire another 70, with an additional 100 or so for the balance of the year, said Ruben Perez, NuVasive leader of advanced manufacturing-global operations.The spinal implant manufacturer is investing $45 million into the 180,000-square-foot facility in West Carrollton that formerly housed robotics manufacturer Yaskawa Motoman."While 300 has been the goal over the next two years, based on our projections, we expect to be there in 2017," Perez saidThe company has a location in Fairborn where 100 employees worked before NuVasive bought the West Carrollton location.T h e f a c i l i t y i n c l u d e s a 80,000-square-foot manufacturing floor, home back in the summer to only a few computer-numeric-control machining devices. Today, there are now 25 machines on the floor, with 22 operational."All the machines are coming in early," Perez said. "So we need the people, the engineers, the personnel to run that equipment."He expects all the interior construction at the company's Liberty Lane plant to be completed by April, which is also ahead of schedule."We have big plans for this plant. As a company, we're trying to take care of the base business, if you will, which are the (spinal) implants," Perez said.