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A major Warren County employer and a major Butler County employer each will host a job fair next week at the local government-run job center, OhioMeansJobs-Butler County.

First, Home Depot will be at the job center from noon to 3 p.m. Monday, Dec. 21, accepting applications for the retail chain’s Rapid Deployment Center in Monroe.

The home improvement retailer is seeking applications for entry-level general warehouse associates. Recently, starting pay was raised to $13 an hour to attract better qualified job candidates, said Scott Brown, staffing specialist for the rapid deployment center. After six months, employees automatically get a raise to $14 an hour, he said.

“We’re in the beginning of our spring hiring season and I’m probably going to need upwards of 90 people full- and part-time,” Brown said.

Hopes are to fill the job openings — which are permanent, not temporary, positions with full benefits — by late April, he added.

“As we go from now through spring as we’re hiring, we’re already expecting a natural attrition,” he said. “If people have a desire and a passion to want to work and learn and grow, anybody can do any of the jobs we have in this building. They can learn and be trained to do the jobs.”

While he will be at the job center Monday to provide more information to job seekers, he said those who can't attend or who want to speed up the application process can apply online at careers.homedepot.com/supplychain. Leading job candidates will be invited to the Home Depot center for interviews, he said.

The Monroe distribution center opened in 2009 at 500 Gateway Boulevard, east of the Ohio 63-Interstate 75 interchange.

Koch Foods also hiring

Koch Foods Inc. returns to the job center again on Tuesday in the search for workers to meet ongoing staffing needs for its Fairfield plant. The chicken processing company will be taking applications and conducting job interviews from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 22.

Job openings include general labor, production stackers, machine operators and more, recruiter Angela Smith has previously told this news outlet.

Koch Foods is headquartered in Park Ridge, Ill. Currently the company in Butler County employs about 840 people in hourly and salary jobs, according to the human resources department. The company in recent years announced an expansion of its office and warehouse space in Fairfield, and is one of the city’s top 10 employers, Greg Kathman, Fairfield’s economic development manager, previously told Journal-News.

OhioMeansJobs-Butler is located at 4631 Dixie Hwy. (Ohio 4) in Fairfield. For more information about these hiring events and other job-hunting services, contact the center at 513-785-6500.

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