For the first time in what feels like a long time, manufacturing jobs are coming into the Bronx instead of leaving it:  Smith Electric, a Missouri-based company which makes electric trucks, will be opening a facility in Port Morris.

Buoyed by a $6 million package of tax breaks, Smith Electric plans to renovate the  Murray Fleiss building, a former lamp warehouse at 275 Locust Ave., according to a press release. The site should be up and running by 2012 and will create 100 jobs, a statement said.

“This project is a win-win for the Bronx and the entire State, and continues to show not only our commitment to bringing new jobs to the Bronx but to growing the green economy here in our borough,” Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr., said in a statement.

According to Smith Electric’s website, the company makes zero-emission commercial electric vehicles to use an alternative to traditional diesel trucks. It’s customers include big-names like the Coca-Cola Company and Frito-Lay.