SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced it is hiring for more than 6,000 full-time jobs across its U.S. fulfillment network to meet growing customer demand. Employees will pick, pack and ship customer orders.
“We’re proud to be creating more than 6,000 full-time positions where employees will interact with state-of-the-art technology as part of their day-to-day roles,” said Mike Roth, Amazon’s vice president of North America operations. “Amazon not only offers great pay and benefits, we also encourage our employees to continue to grow in their careers.”
Amazon offers hourly employees innovative programs like Career Choice, where the company will pre-pay up to 95 percent of tuition for courses related to in-demand fields, regardless of whether the skills are relevant to a career at Amazon. As part of its Career Choice program, the company offers classes from local community and technical colleges to associates onsite at select U.S. fulfillment centers.
Amazon has more than 50 fulfillment centers in the U.S. The company is hiring in the following communities:
Baltimore, MD
Breinigsville, PA
Carlisle, PA
Chattanooga,
TN
Chester, VA
Haslet, TX
Hazleton, PA
Hebron, KY
Jeffersonville, IN
Kenosha,
WI
Lexington, KY
Middletown, DE
Murfreesboro, TN
Petersburg,
VA
Plainfield, IN
Robbinsville, NJ
West Columbia, SC
Whitestown,
IN
Windsor, CT
To learn more about working at an Amazon fulfillment center or apply for a job, visit www.workatamazonfulfillment.com.
About Amazon
Amazon.com opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995. The company 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 phone, Fire tablets, and Fire TV are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon.
