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FedEx Ground looks to hire hundreds for new metro facility

With the recent opening of a new FedEx Ground facility in the Northland, the FedEx Corp. division is planning to double its employee count at the new distribution center and hire 1,300 more at its centers located across the Kansas City metro.

FedEx Ground is looking to add hundreds of new jobs not just at its new Northland facility, but across the Kansas City metro as well.

On both sides of the state line, the FedEx Corp. delivery division has announced that it plans to add 1,300 employees across several different metro facilities. Three hundred are planned to be added to the Northland location.

The Pittsburgh-based delivery division of FedEx Corp. is currently hiring around 300 more workers at the facility, geared toward more efficiently handling the growing volume of large packages e-commerce in the lead-up to the holiday season.

FedEx Ground’s new Kansas city distribution center is one of eight new or expanded large package centers nationwide in which the division has invested to ensure “safe, efficient and reliable” handling of bulkier items, such as TVs, tires and furniture.

These large packages now compose more than 10% of the more than 11 million packages FedEx Ground transports each day.

Beyond its new Northland location, FedEx Ground also plans to hire 1,300 team members in the greater Kansas City area — including existing division stations in Kansas City, Lenexa and Olathe — for the upcoming holiday season, its release says.

These positions will include a mixture of full- and part-time positions, with opportunities for workers seeking more than just seasonal employment to stay.

With more than 160,000 employees and 626 facilities nationwide, FedEx Ground reported $22.7 billion in annual revenue for fiscal year 2020. Its parent company, FedEx Corp., employs 4,100 people in the metro area and more than 400,000 in total.