PERRYSBURG -- Job cuts could be on the horizon at the Owens-Illinois Perrysburg headquarters.

O-I plans to open a facility in Lurin, Peru, where engineers will be dispatched to O-I sites around the world to fix equipment.  Right now, that's being done by engineers in Perrysburg.  O-I spokeswoman Lauren Dubilzig says, cost and the global nature of the company spurred the decision.

When we asked her if this means job cuts at the Perrysburg facility, Dubilzig said, "Right now, it's too soon to know how the realignment will affect Perrysburg."

But that was before she knew NBC 24 had obtained an internal memo, spelling out how the layoffs will occur.

"Overall, we expect that approximately 65-positions will be phased out of the GMEC facility in Perrysburg over the next 12-to-18 months," the memo states.

To bring Owens Illinois jobs to Perrysburg, the city and county agreed to a $6-million dollar incentive package.   But Perrysburg City Administrator John Alexander doesn't expect these layoffs to affect that package.

"O-I is to make it's best effort to retain that level," Alexander says. "I think the numbers you just informed me of would not put that agreement in material breech."

Right now, 150-people are employed at the engineering center in Perrysburg.O-I Job Cut Memo