Fisker Automotive is looking to hire 120 employees between now and February 2012 to work its Wilmington, Delaware, plant on its first Project Nina vehicle, a mid-size premium sedan that should roll off the assembly line at the end of 2012. The initial group of hires will be engineers, electro-mechanical technicians, and production workers.

The Delaware plant, purchased from General Motors in the summer of 2010 for $18 million, will build up to four plug-in hybrid vehicles once it is fully up and running. These vehicles include the aforementioned premium sedan, a coupe, an SUV, and a convertible version of the Fisker Karma called the Karma Sunset.

This news follows the recent expansions at Fisker’s Global Headquarters in Anaheim, California. The company has quadrupled from 50 in January 2010 to 200 in January 2011. By the end of June, it will have increased to 300. Despite the increase in workforce, the Karma sedan was recently delayed once again. Fisker currently plans to achieve full production of the Karma by the second half of 2011 with deliveries to all current deposit holders before 2012.

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