Logistics giant UPS is hiring up to 200
The company said it would hire about 95,000 seasonal employees this year, including about 3,400 in Louisville. E-commerce is booming, and UPS expects shipping volume this holiday season to increase 5 percent from last year.
The company’s operations at the Louisville airport on a recent Friday took care of about one million packages. On weekdays the campus, which covers 90 football fields, handles about 1.6 million packages — but that will spike to 2.4 million toward the end of the year and to about four million around Christmas.
“We’re pretty close to capacity at that point,” said Kevin Harley, a full-time supervisor for Wing C.
His team is keeping busy hiring and training people to prepare for the holiday rush — but it still has to take care of incoming and outgoing planes.
On that recent Friday, workers at one of the 70 aircraft docks used a lifting mechanism to remove from a parked plane 4,000-pound containers and lower them onto a floor. Rollers in the floor allowed employees to pull the containers by hand into the building, where they placed them next to a conveyor belt. Employees inside Wing C opened the containers, grabbed packages and placed them, label side up, onto the conveyors.
