UPS in Jacksonville expands, brings more full-time jobs

UPS plans to expand in Jacksonville and expected to bring in more jobs to the city.

The package-delivering company will invest $196 million to expand its Jacksonville ground package hub and add more than 260,000 square feet to the building and advanced technology and operations automation.

“Jacksonville is one of the larger U.S. ground processing facilities and an important transit point to connect road and rail in the UPS network,” Kim Wyant, president of UPS’s Florida District, said. “We appreciate the state and local community support for the new technology and jobs that give UPS flexibility to meet growing needs of our customers.”

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By fall of 2019, capacity will increase to more than 80,000 packages processed per hour.

The company said it will bring in new full-time jobs and more employee parking as part of the plan.

Onsite liquefied natural gas fueling remains on the property to power the growing UPS fleet of alternative fueled tractors.

Changes in the building footprint provide a larger trailer staging area. Another 46 familiar brown package car positions will meet the needs for growing local delivery operations.

The Jacksonville facility will include the latest UPS sorting and processing technology with advanced automation to increase the building’s response to customer needs.

Six-sided decode tunnels will replace traditional scanning to rapidly capture package information from address labels.

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Small, lightweight packages typical of e-commerce will flow through new systems that maintain UPS reliability in loads built for destinations throughout Florida.

The Jacksonville project joins a multi-year UPS investment plan to expand and modernize its global network operations and capacity.

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