Amazon to open 4 more delivery stations in S. Fla.
Company seeking 400 workers to help speed up deliveries
Your Amazon deliveries could come a little bit faster in parts of South Florida.
Amazon on Tuesday revealed plans to open four more delivery stations for speedier deliveries, the latest stations opening in Fort Lauderdale, Miramar, Homestead and Kendall. The stations “will power the last mile” of the assembly line to get packages out faster in Broward and Miami-Dade counties, according to a company spokesman.
Amazon didn’t specify by how much faster it expected deliveries to get, only saying “this investment into the build-out of our network” would help speed things up.
Packages are shipped to delivery stations from the e-commerce giant’s fulfillment and sortation centers and loaded into vehicles for final delivery to customers. Now, the company is seeking 400 workers at $15-an-hour jobs to make it happen.
Amazon expects the four sites to open later this year.
Later this year, the company will begin seeking job applicants for its delivery station that will be opening at an existing 269,000-square-foot warehouse in Pembroke Park at 3375 SW 24th St. It’s under renovation now within the town’s industrial park district.
Other Amazon centers under construction include a 1-million-squarefoot facility west of Jupiter. Two warehouses in western Pompano Beach are being converted into a delivery station. Two fulfillment centers are under construction in Homestead and western Palm Beach County.
Amazon also is seeking to build a distribution site in Village of Golf, which is south of Boynton Beach, and wants to install one of its massive fulfillment centers in western Sunrise with 1,000 full-time staffers.
And a distribution center opened in Boca Raton late last year.
Prospective job seekers can learn more at www. logistics.amazon.com and https://flex.amazon.com/.