Amazon launches apprenticeship scheme for warehouse workers

The apprenticeship programme will offer hundreds of apprenticeship opportunities in engineering, logistics and warehousing roles in fulfilment centres across the country.

The job opportunities are for people with all types of experience, education and skill levels—from software developers, engineers and technicians, to those seeking entry-level positions and on-the-job training.

The company will work to hire as many individuals as possible from seasonal positions into these new permanent roles.

Doug Gurr, UK country manager, Amazon says: “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.”

In addition, the Amazon Flex delivery programme is offering hundreds of individuals the opportunity to ‘work the hours they want, set their own schedule, and earn up to £15 per hour’.

Amazon will also open a new head office this year in the 15-storey Principal Place in Shoreditch, East London. Located on Norton Folgate, between Liverpool Street and Shoreditch High Street stations, Principal Place is a mixed-use development with a 600,000 sq. ft. office building and an adjacent residential tower. Amazon will also maintain its 60 Holborn Viaduct office providing capacity for more than 5,000 employees in the capital by the end of 2017.