Amazon Expands Hampton Roads Investment with a Career Center and Two New Delivery Stations
September 01 2021 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
The company has created more than 27,000 jobs
in Virginia since 2010 and has 15 delivery stations across the
Commonwealth
Amazon continues its investment in the Hampton Roads area with
the launch of a Career Center and two delivery stations. The Amazon
Career Center, located at 1989 S. Military Highway in Chesapeake
will serve as a hiring and orientation hub for the company’s
operations facilities in Chesapeake, Suffolk, Norfolk, Hampton, and
Virginia Beach. Additionally, the company is excited to announce
the opening of two delivery stations in the Hampton Roads area, a
165,000 square foot facility at 1400 Sewells Point Road in Norfolk
and a 111,600 square foot facility at 223 W Mercury Boulevard in
Hampton. In celebration of the station launches, Amazon donated to
the Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia and the Eastern Shore and
Virginia Peninsula Foodbank.
Delivery stations power the last mile of Amazon’s order process
and help speed up deliveries for customers. Packages are shipped to
a delivery station from neighboring Amazon Fulfillment and
Sortation Centers, loaded into delivery vehicles and delivered to
customers. Delivery stations offer entrepreneurs the opportunity to
build their own business delivering Amazon packages, as well as
independent contractors the flexibility to be their own boss and
create their own schedule delivering for Amazon Flex.
Combined, the two new delivery stations will create hundreds of
full and part-time associate jobs in addition to hundreds of driver
opportunities for Amazon’s Delivery Service Partners and Amazon
Flex drivers. Amazon is always thinking about how we can empower
our employees to succeed and thrive. Employees are paid at least
$15.00 per hour and receive comprehensive benefits, paid time off,
up to 20 weeks fully paid parental leave, education and skills
training, and opportunities for career growth. Amazon is committed
to empowering our employees by providing them access to the
education and training they need to grow their careers at Amazon
and beyond. In the U.S., we are investing $700 million to upskill
more than 100,000 employees by 2025 to help move them into
higher-paying, in-demand jobs.
Statement from Mayor Donnie
Tuck
“We would like to thank Amazon for their investment in this
state-of-the-art distribution facility. A generation of Hampton
residents did much of their shopping at the former Kmart on this
site, and now the redeveloped building will serve a new generation
of online shoppers. Amazon is bringing full and part time jobs to
our city, as well as bringing our packages a little closer to our
doorsteps!”
Amazon cares about the communities where we operate and we are
proud to have created more than 27,000 jobs in Virginia since 2010.
These jobs support communities of all sizes, from large cities like
Norfolk to small towns like Gainesville. Over the last decade,
Amazon has invested more than $34 billion across the Commonwealth,
including infrastructure and compensation. These investments have
contributed an additional $27 billion to the Virginia economy and
have helped create 96,000 indirect jobs on top of Amazon’s direct
hires – from jobs in construction and logistics to professional
services. In addition, more than 42,000 independent authors and
small and medium businesses in Virginia are selling to customers in
Amazon’s store, creating thousands of additional jobs across the
Commonwealth. To learn more about the ways Amazon has invested in
Virginia, click here.
For more information visit amazon.com/apply,
https://logistics.amazon.com, and https://flex.amazon.com.
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