Hawaiian Airlines has laid off 30 of its 545 nonunion employees as part of a company restructuring.

The 30 employees in managerial and administrative positions were laid off this week, Hawaiian spokesman Keoni Wagner said yesterday.

Wagner added that the number of employees in the company’s total work force will be "a net positive" since Hawaiian will be adding 50 positions "over the coming weeks."

"There’s movement in all departments, and some employees are being promoted and others being reassigned," Wagner said. "We are realigning the organization structure and management resources to better support the growth plan and the future needs of the business."

Hawaiian, which has 4,020 employees, has been expanding aggressively during the past year. During the last two months, it initiated four-times-a-week service to Seoul’s Incheon International Airport and daily service to Tokyo’s Haneda International Airport. It also brought in three Airbus A330-200s in 2010 and has two more scheduled for delivery this year as it continues a decade-long transition of its long-range fleet from Boeing 767s.

Wagner said the company will provide a "generous" separation package for those employees not being retained. The package includes payouts reflecting their years of service, extended benefits and career transition help, he said.

"A lot of adjustments have been made to roles and responsibilities, some titles have changed and qualifications for different positions have changed," Wagner said.

"It was a comprehensive realignment of resources and structure, and in some cases the new positions didn’t match the qualifications of some of our affected employees."

Hawaiian’s website lists job openings in information technologies, flight operations, sales and marketing, contract services, in-flight service, finance, customer service, accounting, management, human resources, corporate communications, human resources, strategic procurement, aircraft maintenance, cargo training, general service equipment and engineering.

"We’ll be recruiting heavily in the coming weeks to fill those positions," Wagner said.

Hawaiian will report its fourth-quarter and full-year earnings after the stock market closes on Feb. 1.