Amazon to Open New Fulfillment Center in Maryland
January 17 2017 - 9:16PM
Business Wire
Amazon’s new 1.2 million-square-foot facility
will create 700 new full-time jobs
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced plans to open a 1.2
million-square-foot fulfillment center in North East, Maryland.
Amazon currently employs more than 3,000 associates at its
fulfillment and sortation centers in Baltimore and plans to create
700 new positions at its third Maryland facility.
“We’re excited to open a new, state-of-the-art fulfillment
center in North East, creating hundreds of full-time jobs that
offer wages 30 percent higher than traditional retail stores and
include comprehensive benefits on day one, bonuses and stock
awards,” said Akash Chauhan, Amazon’s vice president of North
America operations. “Maryland has an incredible workforce, and we
are so happy to have this opportunity to expand in the state to
serve customers.”
"Creating jobs and growing Maryland's economy is a top priority
of our administration," said Governor Larry Hogan. "Amazon's
continued investment in Maryland, which includes thousands of jobs
for our citizens, is a great example of companies that choose to
locate and expand their business right here in Maryland - a
testament to our state's growing economy."
The North East fulfillment center will support customer
fulfillment. The company employs thousands of full-time employees
at its Baltimore fulfillment and sortation centers and continues to
hire to meet growing customer demand.
“Economic development is a major priority of my administration
and the attraction of Amazon, the 18th largest company in the US,
is a great example of the type of projects I'd like to see and
bring to Cecil County in the future," said Cecil County Executive
Dr. Alan McCarthy. The new facility is a joint venture of Trammell
Crow Company and Diamond Realty Investments.
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 9,000 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.
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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