Amazon has announced that it is opening a new fulfilment centre in Bolton next year, for which it has already started recruiting 1,200 full-time permanent employees.
The retail giant said that the investment would take the total number of permanent jobs it has created in the North West of England to more than 3,500. It also represents a vote of confidence in British business, as the country hurtles towards Brexit.
Amazon said that it had already started recruiting for a range of new roles for the fulfilment centre, including operations managers, engineers, human resources and IT specialists.
The team in Bolton will pick, pack and ship customer items such as books, toys and kitchenware. All permanent staff will earn £8.15 an hour or more after two years of employment. Starting salaries will be £7.65 an hour and above. The national minimum wage in the UK for poeple aged 25 and above was set at £7.50 in April 2017.
The group also said that all permanent employees working in the company’s fulfilment centres receive stock grants, and are offered a comprehensive benefits package, including private medical insurance, life assurance, income protection, subsidised meals and an employee discount, as well as a company pension plan.
Amazon has been expanding aggressively in the UK.
Last year it announced that it would open fulfilment centres in Daventry, Doncaster, Warrington and Tilbury this year, creating more than 3,500 new permanent full time jobs.
It said that it is increasing the size of its UK fulfilment centre network to meet increasing customer demands, expand selection and enable small and medium-sized companies selling on its platform to scale their business.
Since 2010, it has invested £6.4bn in the UK.
