The Amazon fulfillment center at 12900 Pecan Park Road.
Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry speaks at the Amazon fulfillment center grand opening. He thanked Jerry Mallot, president of JAXUSA Partnership and executive vice President of JAX Chamber, who is retiring.
Amazon workers "pick" items and place them in bins.
Bernard Schmidt, general manager for the fulfillment center, leads the tour past bins filled with items.
Bernard Schmidt, general manager for the fulfillment center, explains the picking process while Mayor Lenny Curry and U.S. Rep. John Rutherford listen.
Packages destined for customers zip down a chute to be packed onto trucks.
Schmidt, Curry and Rutherford take a photo overlook the dock where packages leave the building.
Packages head off to be loaded.
Under the supervision of Amazon employees, Mayor Curry packs a box for shipping.
After sealing the box, Mayor Curry celebrates. At left is Amazon Senior Operations Manager John Dudney.
Packages wind their way through the massive fulfillment center.
At this point, packages are labeled for shipping. Its all done by machine.
Banks of computer screens can be seen monitoring activity in the center.
There are many of these pallots of boxes in the center.
A vending machine offers gloves.
Bins move all of the items in the plant.
When workers enter the doors to Amazon, this is what they first see.
Bobby Deat, a process assistant with Amazon, was among the Day One workers at the plant. He said he appreciates how managment will join in the work during peak hours.
Workers enter the fulfillment center through these doors.
Amazon marked the opening of its Jacksonville fulfillment center in North Jacksonville on Friday with speeches and a tour.
Fulfillment center General Manager Bernard Schmidt led a group of officials, including Mayor Lenny Curry and U.S. Rep. John Rutherford, through the 855,000-square-foot, multilevel center at 12900 Pecan Park Road.
Under the guidance of Amazon employees, Curry also packed a box for shipping.
The facility fulfills orders for smaller consumer items and is an Amazon robotics facility with 20 miles of conveyor track. It started shipping items in August.
Amazon also donated $25,000 to the nonprofit Renaissance Jax, which helps boost STEM skills for students.
Bernard Schmidt, general manager for the fulfillment center, said Amazon has more than 2,000 employees in Northeast Jacksonville.
He said Amazon also started same-day delivery of items in Jacksonville about a month ago.
Amazon has a second fulfillment center in Jacksonville at Cecil Commerce Center that ships large items, a sortation center at Westside Industrial Park and a delivery station in the Alta Lakes Commerce Center in North Jacksonville.
