JPMorgan Chase & Co. is recruiting hundreds of mortgage employees in North Texas, bringing planned hirings in the state during the past 14 months to more than 1,600. The latest round of job additions is part of a national campaign that has its mortgage servicing staff up more than 9,000 jobs in the past two years.
In April 2010, the New York-based company disclosed plans to hire 275 mortgage professionals in Texas — including 125 in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Then, in September 2010, Chase said it was adding another 175 production jobs in Fort Worth.
On Tuesday, a Chase spokesman confirmed that 700 people are being hired in Lewisville, Texas.
The new positions include jobs in mortgage loan servicing and operations.
A job fair is being held Thursday in support of the hirings.
Chase expects to complete the recruitment campaign by October.
The latest round of job additions in on top 500 positions added in Coppell, Texas, this summer. That campaign to bring on modification underwriters started in June.
In addition, Chase reported earlier this year that it had hired nearly 8,000 servicing employees since 2009 to deal with a growing number of distressed borrowers.
The lender said in April that it planned to add as many as 3,000 mortgage servicing jobs, including between 500 and a thousand planned for the Columbus, Ohio, area.
