Amazon opening new fulfilment centre in Bolton in 2018

22 Oct '17

3 min read

Amazon will open a new fulfilment centre in Bolton in 2018 and create 1,200 new, full-time permanent jobs. The investment in the new fulfilment centre in Bolton will take the total number of permanent jobs Amazon has created in the North West of England to more than 3,500. The centre will be equipped with advanced Amazon Robotics technology.

“Our ability to expand in the North West of England is the result of two things: incredible customers and an outstanding workforce,” said Stefano Perego, Amazon’s director of UK Customer Fulfilment. “We are thrilled to begin recruitment for 1,200 new permanent roles in Bolton with competitive wages and comprehensive benefits starting on day one.”

Bolton will be equipped with advanced Amazon Robotics technology. The robots slide under a tower of shelves where products are stowed, lift it and move it through the fulfilment centre.

Amazon has started recruiting for a range of new roles for the fulfilment centre, including operations managers, engineers, HR and IT specialists. The team at Amazon in Bolton who will pick, pack and ship customer items such as books, toys and kitchenware will be recruited in 2018.

Last year Amazon announced that it would open fulfilment centres in Daventry, Doncaster, Warrington and Tilbury in 2017, creating more than 3,500 new permanent full time jobs. The Daventry site opened in February while Doncaster, Warrington and Tilbury have recently started their operations.

Amazon is increasing the size of its UK fulfilment centre network to meet increasing customer demands, expand selection and enable SMEs selling on Amazon marketplace to scale their business. Amazon’s has invested £6.4 billion in the UK since 2010 in its UK-based research and development, head office and fulfilment and logistics infrastructure.
Amazon opened its first fulfilment centre in the North West of England in Manchester in 2016 and has since created more than 1,200 permanent jobs. In April 2017, Amazon announced that it would open a new site in Warrington and create 1,200 jobs. Bolton will be the third fulfilment centre in the region, which means that Amazon will have created more than 3,500 new, full time permanent jobs.

Amazon currently has 16 fulfilment centres in the UK. As well as sites which have recently opened in Warrington, Tilbury and a new site in Doncaster, there are two further fulfilment centres in Doncaster and one each in Coalville (Leicestershire), Daventry, Dunfermline, Dunstable, Gourock, Hemel Hempstead, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Peterborough, Rugeley and Swansea Bay. A UK receive centre will also open in Coventry in 2018 and act as a central hub to receive and sort millions of products sold on Amazon.co.uk each year. (SV)

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