Amazon has announced it would open a new distribution center in Essex, creating 1500 new jobs.
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Due to increasing customer demand, Amazon is boosting the size of its fulfilment centre network across the United Kingdom, helping a growing number of independent small businesses across the country sell their items on Amazon Marketplace.
Amazon UK is to open a distribution centre at Tilbury which will be equipped with the retailer’s most advanced robotics technology. The robots also save space, allowing for 50% more items to be stowed per square foot, the company has said. John Tagawa said: “The introduction of Amazon Robotics is the newest example of our commitment to invention in logistics on behalf of our employees and our customers”.
The new opening form part of Amazon’s wider plans to create thousands of new jobs across Europe – 3,500 of them permanent positions in the UK.
The company said it had invested more than £4.6 billion in the United Kingdom economy since 2010, and would now be scouting out operations managers, engineers, HR and IT workers for the new site.
Amazon now has 10 fulfilment centres in the United Kingdom: two in Doncaster and one each in Dunfermline, Dunstable, Gourock, Hemel Hempstead, Milton Keynes, Peterborough, Rugeley and Swansea Bay.
Amazon has said that permanent employees at the new fulfilment centre will receive “competitive pay” which will rise to £9 per hour after two years’ service in the greater London area.
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News of the investment follows Friday’s announcement that it will create 500 jobs when it opens a fulfilment center in Doncaster, northern England, next year.
