Amazon to Open Fulfillment Center in Monee, Continuing Growth in Illinois
August 29 2016 - 4:15PM
Business Wire
Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced plans to open a new
fulfillment center in Monee, Ill. At the more than
850,000-square-foot facility, hundreds and hundreds of Amazon
employees will pick, pack and ship small items to customers such as
books, electronics and consumer goods.
“We place our fulfillment centers close to customers to provide
the fastest possible delivery times, and the growth in Illinois is
directly tied to our increasing customer demand,” said Akash
Chauhan, vice president of Amazon’s North America Operations.
“Illinois is a great state to do business, and we are happy to be
expanding there to serve customers.”
Full-time employees at Amazon receive competitive hourly wages
and a comprehensive benefits package, including healthcare, 401(k)
and company stock awards starting on day one, as well as generous
maternity and parental leave benefits.
“We feel very fortunate that Amazon has decided to build another
fulfillment center in Will County, bringing the total facilities
here to four,” said Will County Executive Lawrence Walsh. “It’s
very exciting to think that Amazon could soon be employing
thousands and thousands of full-time employees in the area. We look
forward to the Monee site opening.”
In addition to competitive wages and comprehensive benefits,
Amazon also offers employees innovative programs like Career
Choice, where it will pre-pay 95 percent of tuition for courses
related to in-demand fields, regardless of whether the skills are
relevant to a career at Amazon. Since the program’s launch four
years ago, more than 7,000 employees in 10 countries have pursued
degrees in game design and visual communications, nursing, IT
programming and radiology, to name a few.
To learn more about working at an Amazon fulfillment center,
visit www.amazondelivers.jobs.
The project is being developed by RELP Bailly, LLC, an affiliate
of USAA Real Estate.
About Amazon
Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather
than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to
operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews,
1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment
by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets,
Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and
services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit
www.amazon.com/about.
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