The structure of the Ultium Cells LLC plant in Lordstown continues to come together.

LORDSTOWN — Hiring has begun at Ultium Cells LLC, a General Motors-supported electric vehicle battery-cell manufacturing plant under construction near the automaker’s former Lordstown assembly plant.

The company announced Thursday that job seekers can apply for several positions posted on the company’s website, www.ultiumcell.com.

Now, hiring at the plant is for positions to set up and launch battery-cell manufacturing. Additional job openings will be posted to the website as they become available. The website lists a variety of mostly engineering-related openings, but also includes purchasing and information technology.

“We’ve begun the hiring process and will add a total of 1,100 jobs to the local economy,” GM CEO Mary Barra said Tuesday during the company’s third-quarter financial results conference call.

According to the website, employees can receive at least $20,000 per year in education support, health benefits, holiday pay starting on day No. 1, discounts on GM vehicles and “can ditch the brown bag” by eating at the plant’s on-site cafeteria.

The plant is a joint venture with South Korea’s LG Chem, a global leader in battery cells. Together, the companies are sharing equally the $2.3 billion investment that will mass produce battery cells for several GM models, including the GMC Hummer, Cadillac Lyriq and Cruise Origin — GM’s electric driverless vehicle.

About the size of 30 football fields, it will have annual capacity of more than 30 gigawatt hours and room for expansion. Construction continues at the Tod Avenue NW facility that’s in line to start production in early 2022.

The company anticipates mass producing the cells will drive costs below $100 per kilowatt hour at full volume.

“We are excited to share our vision of an all-electric future as we begin adding members to our highly technical battery-cell manufacturing team,” said Tom Gallagher, Ultium Cells plant director. “This facility will lead us into a new era of manufacturing and sustainability as we push toward a zero-emission future.”

The facility will produce cells for Factory ZERO, what GM’s Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Center now is called as its being reconfigured to an all-electric vehicle assembly plant. GM will invest $2.2 billion there to retool and upgrade the facility the automaker sees as the launchpad for its multi-brand electric vehicle strategy.

GM also recently announced another $2 billion investment to transition its Spring Hill, Tenn., plant to build electric vehicles, including the Lyriq. Many employees from the closed Lordstown plant transferred or were sent to Spring Hill.

Also Thursday, GM announced it posted huge third quarter numbers, pulling in $4 billion in profit over three months, after a short money-losing stretch as the spread of COVID-19 shut down all U.S. auto factories.

GM’s adjusted earnings were $2.83 per share, easily outpacing Wall Street’s per-share projections of $1.43, according to a survey by FactSet. Revenue of $35.5 billion was about in line.

The company swung back strongly from an $806 million loss in the second quarter when it was restarting factories shuttered for safety during the early stages of the pandemic.

Auto sales across the globe have bounced back strongly, particularly in China, which has held additional coronavirus outbreaks in check. GM’s sales in China jumped 12 percent in the third quarter, and in the U.S., sales fell 9.9 percent in the third quarter compared with a year ago.

That still was a dramatic improvement over the 34 percent sales drop in the second quarter.

The Associated Press contributed to this story.