What Amazon job applicants can expect

First area fulfillment center needs to hire 1,500 workers.


Workers looking for a job at Amazon can apply at a job fair or online.
Workers looking for a job at Amazon can apply at a job fair or online.
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Amazon.com starts its job fairs Monday to hire about 1,500 warehouse workers for its first Jacksonville fulfillment center in Northwest Jacksonville.

Potential employees for the warehouse jobs — which pay $12 to $16 an hour, based on job listings on the Amazon website — should know that:

  • You need to be at least 18 years old.
  • You must have a high-school diploma or the equivalent.
  • You can expect to handle packages up to 49 pounds.
  • You might be standing in one place and/or walking for 10-12 hours a day.
  • You might be working in temperatures between 60 and 90 degrees, and occasionally higher than that.
  • Noise levels can sometimes be loud.
  • You need to flexible about workdays and hours.
  • And you might need to be able to “frequently push, pull, squat, bend, and reach.”

The Seattle-based retailer is taking applications at amazondelivers.jobs, where five job descriptions are listed.

Those listings are lead fulfillment associate, full-time warehouse associate, part-time warehouse associate, reduced-time fulfillment associate and part-time sortation associate.

Amazon has scheduled job fairs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at these dates and locations:

  • Monday, July 10; Wednesday, July 12; and Friday, July 14; at Legends Center, 5130 Soutel Drive.
  • Monday, July 17; Wednesday, July 19; and Friday, July 21; at the Prime Osborn Convention Center, 1000 Water St. Downtown.

Amazon said the locations of the job fairs are subject to change.

Spokeswoman Shevaun Brown said applicants should bring a photo ID. They will undergo a process that includes a background check and drug-screening.

Applicants who successfully complete the application and assessment “are immediately given a contingent job offer — meaning they can walk away with a job offer on the same day as the event,” she said.

Brown said candidates applying online don’t need to attend a job fair.

She couldn’t say how many positions the events would fill, but the facility is creating more than 1,500 full-time jobs.

Legislation for city incentives indicated that of the 1,500 jobs, 500 would pay an average of $50,000 a year.

Those higher-paid jobs tend toward operations and management, and Brown said those positions also must be filled.

“We are looking to fill all roles and are always seeking enthusiastic, hardworking individuals who have a strong work ethic and commitment to customer service,” she said.

While she did not provide an opening date, she said hiring typically takes place a couple of months before the fulfillment centers open.

That indicates a September time frame.

Amazon is hiring now for the its first area fulfillment center at 12900 Pecan Park Road.

It is a multilevel, 2.4 million-square-foot warehouse to handle small consumer items.

The part-time sortation associate positions are for the Amazon sortation center being developed in Westside Industrial Park, Brown said. 

That job description calls it a “high-speed, high tech” sortation center.

Amazon also is building a fulfillment center in Cecil Commerce Center at 13333 103rd St., creating another 1,200 jobs.

That one is a 1 million-square-foot center to handle large items.

Amazon also has a delivery station in Alta Lakes Commerce Center in North Jacksonville.

The bulk of the almost 3,000 total positions are warehouse jobs in the fulfillment centers.

Amazon said full-time jobs are available with comprehensive benefits starting on the first day that include medical, dental and vision insurance as well as 401(k) and company stock awards. 

Amazon also offers full-time employees 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.

Candace Moody, vice president of CareerSource Northeast Florida, said the organization will support the job fairs with staff to help manage traffic and direct applicants through the process.

She said her group is working with the Amazon recruiting team.

“They deliver jobs with the same efficiency they deliver packages,” she said.

Amazon jobs

Amazon says the fulfillment centers “are where Amazon orders come to life and where we focus on delighting our customers by delivering smiling boxes filled with everything under the sun.” Online Jacksonville positions at amazondelivers.jobs show:

Lead fulfillment associate

Available roles include: Trainer, data analyst, process assistant, dock clerk, receiving clerk, shipping clerk

Hourly pay: $13.80

Be prepared to: Continuously climb and descend stairs (at sites with stairs); work on a secure mezzanine at a height of up to 40 feet; work on powered equipment, such as a forklift or cherry picker.

Full-time and part-time and warehouse associate

Full-time hourly pay: $12

Part-time hourly pay: $12.50 (starting) to $16 (if you work Saturday or Sunday days)

Be prepared to: Use frequency scanners and unload shipments from trucks; operate carts, dollies, hand trucks and other moving equipment; operate PIT (powered industrial trucks) equipment if interested in being trained; be willing and able to work all shifts.

Part-time sortation associate

Hourly pay: $12

Be prepared to: Sort packages based on size and destination; build, wrap and transport pallets with a pallet jack; sort packages and pallets; manually wrap finished pallets, moving in a sideways, circular motion several times in a row.

Reduced-time fulfillment associate

Hourly pay: $12 (starting) to $13 (if you work Thursday-Saturday nights)

Be prepared to: Work 6 p.m. to 6:30 a.m. or 6:30 p.m. to 7 a.m. Thursday through Saturday.

 

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