Amazon Australia launches massive campaign to hire hundreds of staff

• Workers to pick and pack items
• Staff to be given on the job training
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Amazon Australia has launched a recruitment drive to hire 1,400 seasonal workers ahead of the mid-year sales and no prior experience is necessary.

The multi-national tech giant launched the massive campaign on Monday to boost their workforce ahead of the end of financial year sales period in June and the Prime Day shopping event in July.

Hundreds of staff will be hired to work at Amazon fulfilment centres and logistics sites across Australia to pick, pack, and ship orders from the warehouses to customers.

Amazon Australia launched the recruitment drive to keep up with customer demand with the busy sales period now just weeks away.

Tech giant Amazon will be hiring 1,400 seasonal workers (pictured) in Australia ahead of the busy mid-year sales period

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‘We have 1,400 roles to fill with motivated and enthusiastic people looking for a short-term role,’ Amazon Australia human relations operations director Jacqui Marker said.

‘We provide on-the-job training so no previous experience or formal qualifications are required.’

Workers will be distributed to fulfilment centres across Australia

Half of the 1,400-strong workforce will be employed at warehouses in NSW.

Amazon seeks 300 workers in Victoria while Queensland and WA needs 200 and 130 respectively.

The remaining 70 staff will work at centres in South Australia and Tasmania.

Flexible working arrangements are also on offer through Amazon Flex.

The side hustle which will allows workers to deliver packages using their own vehicles at their own convenience.

Permanent full-time positions with Amazon are also up for grabs. Perks include life, income protection and health insurance

Samparpan Kapoor, who became a full-time employee after he first started out as a seasonal worker, said the job is rewarding.

‘I learn something new on the job every day,’ he said.

‘We get additional training and educational support to help us develop and grow.’

Applications for the seasonal jobs are now open.

Workers will be employed at fulfilment centres (pictured) across Australia, where they will pick, pack, and ship items to customers

Samarpan Kapoor (pictured), who is now a full-time employee at Amazon Australia after starting out as a seasonal worker said the job is rewarding

The latest jobs campaign comes after Amazon Australia announced last year that it would build the nation’s largest fulfilment centre at a site in Craigieburn, in Melbourne’s north.

The facility which is set to open by 2025 will be as big as the size of 11 MCGs and will be operated by a fleet of robots.

The four-storey building will be constructed on a mammoth 209,000 square meter plot of land and will cost $8.4 billion to build.

Amazon has been restructuring the business over recent years which has lead to lay-offs that has affected workers across the world.

The company announced earlier this year  that hundreds of staff from several businesses including PrimeVideo and Twitch, would be let go to reduce costs.

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