Downtown Cincinnati’s FirstGroup adds 100 new IT, other corporate jobs

Transportation company FirstGroup America  is adding 100 new corporate jobs to its downtown Cincinnati headquarters. The first 60 jobs will all be in IT and a host of others are available too, including accounts receivable and jobs in its reemerging real estate department. FirstGroup America, headquartered in downtown Cincinnati, is the largest provider of bus and rail transportation services in North America. Locally, the company employs 475 bus drivers for Cincinnati Public Schools, owns the city’s Greyhound stop and manages TANK, Northern Kentucky’s public transportation bus system. FirstGroups’s corporate growth is a result of the company’s 2007 acquisition of Laidlaw International, a Naperville, Illinois, contract school bus service and a holding company for Greyhound Lines Inc. “These high quality jobs are a reflection of the growth and investment FirstGroup America continues to make in our home town,” said Frank Steele, Director of Recruiting for FirstGroup America.  The company is moving some Greyhound corporate jobs from Dallas, Texas in addition to creating new jobs here in Cincinnati. FirstGroup America is in its 10th year, and is the U.S. subsidiary of bus and rail giant  FirstGroup plc, headquartered in Aberdeen, Scotland. “This opens up a lot of great positions for Cincinnati, it’s a really exiting point in our history,” said Maureen Richmond, FirstGroup director of  media relations. For more information about those available jobs, visit www.firstgroupamerica.com/careers or email fga.careers@firstgroup.com. Writer: Feoshia HendersonSources: Maureen Richmond, FirstGroup Director of Media Relations and Cincinnati Economic Development Division