by Daytona Beach – Amazon has started hiring its new robotfulfillment center here that will open this fall in time before the start of the holiday shopping season.
“Amazon now accepts applications for more than 1,000 full-time positions in its new Robotics-Fulfillment center in Daytona Beach and offers competitive wages from $ 19 per hour and extensive benefits from day one of employment,” according to a press release published by the e-commerce Gigant on Monday 23 June.
The five -storey 2.8 million square feet Amazon Robotic Fulfillment Center is located at 2519 Bellevue Ave. In Daytona Beach, directly south of Daytona International Speedway.
What is an Amazon Robotics Fulfillment Center?
“In Amazon Robotics Fulfillment Centers choose, pack, pack and send employees of customers’ orders,” said the press release. “This is considered as the ‘First-Mijl’ network of Amazon, which means that this is the first point for the package of a customer in the material flow in the supply chain before it is passed on to ‘middle miles’ centers and then a delivery provider to be dropped off at the door of a customer.”
A Newly Completed, but yet-to-open Five-Story 2.8 Million-Square-Foot Amazon Robotics Fulfillment Center at 2519 Bellevue Ave. In Daytona Beach is Pictured on March 11, 2025. Training of the more than 1.000 “Amazonians” expected to be employed there is slated to start this summer in preparation of the massive distribution center’s opening this fall in time for the start of the holiday shoppinginging. It is located directly south of Daytona International Speedway.
Amazon already has several ‘non-robotic’ facilities here
Daytona Beach has a non-robotic 66,000 square foot “Last-Mijl” delivery station on open in September 2019 in 2400 Mason Ave. (Just north of Dunn Avenue).
Amazon also operates a “first mile” fulfillment center of 1.4 million square foot along the east side of Interstate 4 in Deltona that was opened in September 2020.
The e-commerce giant also has a “pre-first-mile” fulfillment center of almost 1 million square foot across the street from the Normandy Boulevard that is expected to start this fall.
Here is how someone can apply
Those interested in applying for jobs in the new Robotics Fulfillment Center can visit the website amazon.com/localjobs or send an SMS message with the text “Hireme” to 31432 to register for warnings. Those with disabilities and accommodation need during the application-and-hiring process are encouraged to visit the website amazon.com/accommodations or call 888-435-9287 from Monday to Friday, between 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. Eastern Time.
New vacancies for the location Daytona Beach are released every Friday after 7 p.m.
This article originally appeared on the Daytona Beach News-Journal: Amazon who now hires to fill 1,000 jobs at New Daytona Robotics Facility
