Amazon to start recruiting staff for two centres
SITE WILL BE RETAILER’S FIFTH ONE TO OPEN IN THE NORTH EAST
GLOBAL tech firm Amazon is opening a new delivery centre in Gateshead next door to a fulfilment centre that is set to open this year.
The global retailer is poised to launch a recruitment drive soon for its newest logistics centre at Follingsby Max, which will create more than 1,000 jobs once fully operational.
Amazon says an opening date for the centre will be announced soon, but that it is making good progress at the site.
Meanwhile, the firm says it is also opening a second, smaller site in Gateshead in the form of a ‘last mile’ delivery station, which will also create dozens of jobs.
The news comes more than a year after The Chronicle revealed how Amazon had bought the Follingsby Max site from developers Highgrove Group, renaming it NCL1 Limited. Since then, the firm has put up NCL1 signage outside the construction site.
Amazon’s two sites in Gateshead mean the firm will soon have five North East operations.
The Gateshead fulfilment centre joins the 1.5-million sq ft logistics centre at Symmetry Park near Darlington and the two-million sq ft centre at the Integra 61 industrial park just off the A1 near Durham, which opened last year.
The group also has a delivery depot in Washington, near Sunderland, which opened five years ago. Kerry-Anne Lawlor, country director for Amazon Logistics, said the Gateshead delivery station will create dozens of new jobs, in addition to hundreds of driver opportunities for Amazon Logistics’ delivery service partners and Amazon Flex delivery partners. Ms Lawlor said the delivery stations power the last mile of its order process and help speed up deliveries for customers.
She added: “We are excited to invest in the Gateshead area with a new delivery station that will provide efficient delivery for customers, and create new jobs for the talented workforce.”
We are excited to invest in the Gateshead area with a new delivery station Kerry-Anne Lawlor, Amazon Logistics