Lisa DeJong/The Plain Dealer ETNA, Ohio– E-commerce giant Amazon plans to begin accepting applications Monday for employees to staff its huge satisfaction operation in North Randall, a small village east of Cleveland.That 855,000-square-foot facility is scheduled to open in the fall on the website where Randall Park Shopping mall stood for almost 40 years. The operation, where workers will choose, pack and ship small items such as books and customer electronics, is predicted to utilize more than 2,000 people.Amazon, a publicly traded company based in Seattle, has been slammed at times for working conditions and pay at its circulation facilities. In the Columbus area, brand-new fulfillment center associates make in between $14.80 and $18 an hour before advantages. Nationally, the company’s beginning pay is $15 an hour, on average.In North Randall
To obtain a sense of what workers will see in North Randall – and how Amazon’s fulfillment process works – a Plain Dealer reporter and photographer toured among the company’s Columbus-area facilities, in Etna, in May. Here’s exactly what we saw:
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The Etna satisfaction center, comparable in size to the North Randall and Euclid structures, is a 24-7 operation with roughly 3,700 workers. The facility opened in fall of 2016.
Associates usually work 10-hour shifts four days a week, with 2 paid 15-minute breaks each day and a lunch break.Lisa DeJong/The
Plain Dealership A big American flag
hangs near the entrance to the Etna fulfillment center, where employees stash their valuables in lockers before heading out to the floor.The structure is divided into 2 areas.
At one end of the sprawling commercial area, there’s a four-level area where items, 50-plus percent of them coming from little to mid-size services, been available in to be inventoried and kept. At the other end, there’s a more open, two-level area where workers evacuate orders and pack them onto trucks for shipment.Every step of the procedure -numerous carried out by human beings, but some carried out by robotics-checks out like one relocation in an intricate, carefully choreographed dance.Lisa DeJong/The Plain Dealership When pallets of products get to the fulfillment center in Etna, they’re unloaded into yellow
plastic totes and sent out upstairs
to employees like Jaime Knapp, a 38-year-old”stower.”Knapp takes products from the totes, scans them and stows away-or stows -the stock in vertical towers called pods.The minute Knapp scans the items, they appear for purchase on Amazon.com.Lisa DeJong/The Plain Dealership Orange-and-black robots steer the tall, heavy pods around the flooring, carving gridlines as they follow a scripted course. Amazon added the robots to its operations in 2012, in a push for safety and performance, and
will incorporate robotics at both
the North Randall and Euclid facilities.A business spokeswoman stated Amazon has actually expanded hiring and training for workers to work with the robots. Several thousand employees are currently taking robotics courses.Employees are physically separated from the robots by a fenced-off perimeter but can direct the large gadgets -and pause them to make repairs
– utilizing a Kindle, a hand-held electronic device.
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