FORT WORTH, Texas - RadioShack plans to hire 300 service technicians after landing a contract to repair wireless phones for ATC Logistics & Electronics, officials said.
The technicians will work at an ATC facility in the Alliance industrial park corridor, where RadioShack will oversee the testing and refurbishing of the phones while ATC employees focus on transportation and logistics.
Fort Worth-based RadioShack already has hired about 100 workers and is accepting applications for the remaining 200 positions, to be filled by March, Chief Executive Len Roberts told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
The job openings follow a wave of layoffs at RadioShack's manufacturing operations, including a sign-making facility in Arlington, a wire and cable plant in Fort Worth and an indoor-antenna plant in North Carolina. Altogether, the company eliminated about 370 manufacturing jobs this year.
Roberts said the payroll changes reflect a decision to exit businesses when it is more efficient to use contractors and to expand businesses in which RadioShack has an edge. The electronics chain for several years has operated a repair facility in Fort Worth, where it fixes Sprint, Motorola and Nokia handsets.
ATC, which handles inventory and distribution for cell phone handset manufacturers, has remodeled part of its 400,000-square-foot Alliance warehouse to accommodate RadioShack's repair team.
Most of the facility is dedicated to distribution services that ATC provides to a variety of wireless communications companies, said Mary Ryan, a spokeswoman for ATC parent company Aftermarket Technology, a publicly traded Chicago-area company. Its other main area of business is refurbishing auto parts.
The arrangement between ATC and RadioShack could lead to more contracts in which RadioShack would repair products sold at stores other than its own, Roberts said.
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