Amazon Confirms Second Jacksonville Fulfillment Center and Additional 1,000 Full-Time Jobs
January 04 2017 - 12:01AM
Business Wire
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced plans to open a second
fulfillment center in Jacksonville, Florida. The facility will add
more than 1,000 full-time jobs with benefits starting on day one.
In the Sunshine State, Amazon currently employs more than 4,000
full-time employees.
“We’re excited to further expand our presence in the state with
this new fulfillment center in Jacksonville,” said Akash Chauhan,
Amazon’s vice president of North American operations. “Florida has
been an ideal location to help enable superfast shipping speeds to
customers and a source of exceptional talent for Amazon. We’re
proud to be creating great jobs with benefits for Floridians.”
“Six months after announcing a major fulfillment center in
Jacksonville, Amazon is again choosing Jacksonville as the site of
another facility that will create an additional 1,000 new jobs,
bringing the company’s announced footprint in Jacksonville to 2,500
jobs,” said Aaron Bowman, senior vice president of JAXUSA
Partnership. “Landing a second facility in such a short amount of
time further solidifies the JAX region as a place of unlimited
opportunity, fueled by possibilities.”
During the past three years, Amazon has announced multiple
facilities in Florida including four fulfillment centers, two
sortation centers as well as Prime Now hubs in Miami, Tampa and
Orlando. At the new 1-million-square-foot fulfillment center in
Jacksonville, employees will pick, pack and ship large items like
household decor, sporting equipment and gardening tools.
Governor Rick Scott said, “Amazon’s decision to continue
investing and creating jobs in our state is great news. I look
forward to celebrating the many new job opportunities Amazon will
bring to Jacksonville families and their continued success across
Florida.”
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.
“Amazon.com has been one of Florida’s best job creators since
they announced their first project three years ago,” said Mike
Grissom, executive vice president of Enterprise Florida, Inc.
“Since that first announcement, the company has created thousands
of jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars in capital investments
across the state. This most recent project in Jacksonville is
another great win for Florida and we thank Amazon for their
continued investment and job creation.”
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.
Cissy Proctor, executive director of the Florida Department of
Economic Opportunity, said, “Amazon’s expansion to the Jacksonville
area is a great opportunity for North Florida job seekers to get a
job in Florida’s competitive logistics industry. We are thankful
for Amazon’s commitment to Florida and look forward to its creation
of more than 1,000 new jobs in Jacksonville.”
“This is an exciting development for Jacksonville and the Cecil
Commerce Center,” said Mayor Lenny Curry. “The center is a
tremendous asset for our city offering companies like Amazon ample
space, resources and accessibility. In addition to the state-of-the
art fulfillment and distribution center to be located in northwest
Jacksonville, I am looking forward to Amazon’s expanding presence
in our city and contributions to its continued economic development
and growth.”
To learn more about working at an Amazon fulfillment center,
visit www.amazondelivers.jobs.
About Amazon
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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,
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