Amazon launches 5,000-head recruitment drive
Online retail giant Amazon revealed plans to recruit more than 5,000 full time workers this week (February 20), bringing its total UK workforce to more than 24,000.
Amazon UK country manager Doug Gurr said: “We are creating thousands of new UK jobs, including hundreds of apprenticeship opportunities, as we continue to innovate for our customers and provide them with even faster delivery, more selection and better value.
“We are hiring for all types of roles from flight test engineers, software engineers and corporate managers in our development centres and head office, to operations managers, supervisors, engineers, service technicians, HR roles and order fulfilment roles in our fulfilment centres.”
The business planned to hire as many individuals as possible from its seasonal workforce. More than 10,000 of the company’s total workforce started with the company in seasonal roles, it said.
Amazon’s new apprenticeship programme will offer hundreds of apprenticeship opportunities in engineering, logistics and warehousing roles in fulfilment centres across the country.