Amazon Jobs – Amazon creates 900 UK jobs with new distribution centre

Amazon is one of the biggest online shopping site of the world and now Amazon UK creates 900 job vacancieswith new distribution centre.

The 700,000 square foot packing warehouse at Rugeley, Staffordshire, will begin operating in September and will be fully staffed by the end of next year. The new jobs will be a mixture of permanent and temporary roles, although the exact numbers of each are not known.

Arthur Valdez, vice-president of operations at Amazon.co.uk, said: “The centre at Rugeley will play an important role in fulfilling orders for customers in the UK, Europe and all over the world.”

The Rugeley operation is the second new fulfilment centre the US-based retailer has announced this year. In January Amazon revealed plans to open a 1m square foot centre in Dunfermline before the end of 2011, which will create 750 new permanent jobs and 1,500 temporary jobs during peak times.

The retailer’s existing packing warehouse in Glenrothes, Scotland, will be amalgamated into the Dunfermline operation and its workers will be invited to move across.