New UPS 273,000 Square Foot Package Delivery Facility Opens In Lockport, IL
September 27 2017 - 9:30AM
- Nearly 700 new jobs to be created to support package
distribution locations in Chicago area
- UPS expands package operations network to better serve
customers
- Saturday ground pick-up and delivery services now available
across metro Chicago
UPS (NYSE:UPS) today announced the opening of a new
package distribution facility in Lockport, IL, one of Chicago’s
growing suburbs. The company’s $40 million dollar investment in the
new building brings more than 273,000 square feet of new capacity
to UPS operations serving customers in the area. In March,
UPS also completed a significant upgrade to the Addison, IL
location. Together, these UPS infrastructure projects add almost
700 new jobs to support expanding customer needs in greater
Chicago.
“The Chicago metro area is one of the country’s largest and most
diversified economies. With its tremendous access to transportation
as a hub for air, rail, interstate trucking and even commercial
cargo shipping, Chicagoland is a strategic location for UPS,” said
Rich Moore, president of UPS’s Illinois District. “The new building
in Lockport and the Addison operations modernization are part of an
ongoing plan to grow the UPS smart logistics network across the
country and globally.”
Advanced package scanning and sortation equipment installed in
both facilities allow dynamic changes to be made to the flow of
packages being processed, increasing flexibility for routing
through the UPS network. Customers will benefit from speed and
accuracy in scaling to meet daily volume fluctuations or shifting
in response to weather contingencies. The new operations technology
also helps power the rollout of the UPS® Saturday ground
delivery and pickup service that began in late April. With
increasing retail fulfillment demands and residential delivery
growth in the area, metropolitan Chicago has been an early market
for the new service.
Today, almost 21,000 employees in Illinois provide package
delivery, ground freight, air gateway operations, healthcare
logistics, freight forwarding and contract logistics services.
Chicago is home to the 2 million square foot CACH (Chicago Area
Consolidation Hub), the second largest package processing facility
in the global UPS operations network, as well as the headquarters
for Coyote Logistics, a UPS company.
Since early 2016 through August 2017, UPS has announced plans to
construct eight new U.S. facilities that will create more than 5.9
million square feet of additional facility space for increasing
package processing capacity. In addition to the new facilities, UPS
has begun expanding and upgrading five U.S. locations during the
same period, installing advanced package scanning and sortation
technology that increases processing speed, accuracy and
efficiency, as well as enables package routing flexibility to meet
growing customer shipping demands. These 14 new and expanded U.S.
facilities will create more than 7,250 new, good-paying full- and
part-time positions when fully operational.
UPS is recruiting for a variety of part-time package handler
positions in the greater Chicago area, as well as for seasonal
help during the busy holiday season. Interested jobseekers can
begin the application process at upsjobs.com, which has a
fully mobile version of the job application site. Many
opportunities are available with eligibility for benefits,
including tuition assistance.
About UPS
UPS (NYSE: UPS) is a global leader in logistics, offering a
broad range of solutions including transporting packages and
freight; facilitating international trade, and deploying advanced
technology to more efficiently manage the world of business.
Headquartered in Atlanta, UPS serves more than 220 countries and
territories worldwide. The company can be found on the web
at ups.com or pressroom.ups.com and its
corporate blog can be found at longitudes.ups.com. To
get UPS news direct, follow @UPS_News on
Twitter.
Kim Krebs
404-828-4404
kkrebs@ups.com
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