Supermarket chain Wegmans has begun hiring 600 employees to staff its grocery store under construction in the Woodmore Towne Centre at Glenarden in Lanham.

The company plans to fill 550 of the 600 open positions at the supermarket with local people. The 135,000-square-foot supermarket is slated to open in October.

Wegmans is currently seeking employees for full-time positions in such areas as customer service, entry-level managerment, cashier, pharmacy and culinary jobs. Part-time job hiring will begin in July. Salary ranges were not posted on the company’s job listings site.

The grocer is investing approximately $1.5 million in training for the Lanham store, which will be the company’s second in Maryland. The Hunt Valley store in Baltimore County opened in 2005.

Wegmans also has plans to open stores in Harford and Anne Arundel counties.

The company place fifth in 2009 on the Fortune magazine list of “The 100 Best Companies to Work For.”