Amazon Hiring 200+ In MA On The Spot Today

FALL RIVER, MA — Southeastern Mass. will be the scene of one of nearly a dozen U.S. warehouses where Amazon will be making job offers on the spot Wednesday. Amazon is holding a giant nationwide job fair, planning to make thousands of job offers. One of the locations is in Fall River, where Amazon will be offering more than 200 jobs on the spot.

Amazon recently announced it is opening shop in Boston's Fort Point and bringing 900 jobs with it. Amazon currently has 327 job openings on its Boston/Cambridge website. The Cambridge office, which will remain open, employees 700. Amazon has about 200 more employees at a Back Bay co-working space. The 900 jobs coming to Fort Point will be in addition to those.

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The hourly rate of pay for the Fall River "fulfillment associate" position is $12.75-$13.25 an hour, with benefits that you see here. You must be at least 18 to apply.

At the Amazon "fulfillment center" in Fall River, the company hopes to add to a workforce of about 1,500. Employees there focus on sorting, labeling and shipping what the company calls "non-sortable" items — big products such as shovels, surfboards, grills, car seats — and lots of giant diaper boxes. Other warehouses are focused on smaller products.

Nearly 40,000 of the 50,000 packing, sorting and shipping jobs at Amazon will be full time. Most of them will count toward Amazon's previously announced goal of adding 100,000 full-time workers by the middle of next year.

The company is advertising starting wages that range from $11.50 an hour at the Tennessee location to $13.75 an hour at the Washington site, which is near Amazon's Seattle headquarters. You can see more information on the jobs fair and positions here.

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Materials from The Associated Press were used in this report