The Peterborough Evening Telegraph
Amazon to create 1,000
New roles as Spanish packaging firm moves into Peterborough
Online retail giant Amazon is to create 1,000 seasonal jobs at its fufilment centre in Peterborough.
The fulfilment centre in Kingston Park is now hiring for around 1,000 seasonal roles.
The new recruits will support about 1,000 permanent employees during the festive period.
A spokesman for Amazon said: “The delivery station in Peterborough will have increased its permanent headcount from around 50 at the beginning of 2020, to around 100 by the end of the year.
“Amazonisalsolookingfor individuals wanting to turn free time into supplementary income, working to their own schedule to deliver Amazon
packages for between £13 and £15 per hour.”
Theemploymentboostfor Peterborough comes as Amazon announced that 10,000 new permanent roles are being created across the UK this year.
It takes the company’s total permanent UK workforce to more than 40,000 people.
Amazon has already added3,000newpermanentroles to its workforce across its UK networkoffulfilmentcentres, sort centres and delivery stations.
Thecompanyplanstoadda further 7,000 newpermanent roles bytheendof2020across more than 50 sites, including corporate officesandtwonew fulfilment centres launching in the autumn in the North East and in the Midlands.
The new roles, including engineers, graduates, HR and IT professionals, health and safety andfinancespecialists, as well as the teams who will pick, pack and ship customer orders, willhelpAmazonmeet growing customer demand and enable small and medium sized enterprises selling onAmazontoscaletheirbusinesses.
For the new recruits pay starts at a minimum of £9.50 perhourforallfull-time, parttime, temporaryandseasonal roles in Amazon’s fulfilment centres, sort centres and delivery stations.
Employees are offered a comprehensivebenefitspackage, including private medical insurance, life assurance, income protection, subsidised meals and an employee discount – which combined are worth more than £700 annually – aswellasacompanypension plan.
Amazon also offers employees an innovative programmecalled Career Choice that provides funding for skills development through nationally recognised courses ofupto£8,000overfouryears.
Stefano Perego, Amazon’s Vice President of European Customer Fulfilment, said: “We’re proud to be creating 10,000 new permanent roles across our UK network.
“We are employing thousands of talented individuals in a diverse range of good jobs from operations managers and tech professionals through to people to handle customer orders.”
People interested in applying for both permanent and seasonal roles at Amazon should visit www.amazonjobs.co.uk
Jobs are being created by an international packaging company that has just moved into Peterborough.
Saica Pack has just opened a new maintenance hub in the King Street Industrial Estate. The centre will provide vital engineering maintenance and repair services for the company’s customers and depots across the UK.
The number of staff at the new facility has not been specified by the company, which is headquartered in Spain with centres in nine countries including the UK and with a workforce of 10,000 people.
The new centre will have its own dedicated engineering team and has been set up to improve the efficiency of Saica’s customer callouts.
Jane Gorham, Saica’s Fresh Pack Manager for UK & Ireland, said: “Saica is always looking for innovative ways to streamline its service, so we are delighted to open our new Fresh Pack Maintenance Facility.”
“The centre means we can offer an increasingly flexible service to existing and prospective clients.
She said: “It ticks all the right boxes and is another step forward towards our goal of offering a completely integrated business solution.”
Saica Group’s Fresh Pack products are used for packaging fresh fruits and vegetables and its corrugated cardboard boxes can withstand extreme climate and transport conditions. In addition, Saica supplies machines to its client’s customers, allowing businesses to independently build their own corrugated fresh produce boxes.
Ms Gorham added: “In addition to attending to machine maintenance, Saica’s Fresh Pack Service Engineering team will make regular site visits to service equipment and carry out preventative maintenance.
“This will ensure invaluable production time is not lost. “Saica is demonstrating its ongoing commitment to the fresh produce market sector and continued growth in the UK and Ireland.”
The firm is the latest in a line of companies moving into Peterborough. Recent arrivals include fresh produce supplers AMK Fresh, fashion and homewares retailer URBN and USbased spce giant McCormick.