Amazon to start hiring for 1,500 jobs in OKC

Hiring has started for Amazon’s first fulfillment center in Oklahoma City. The company will take applications from Aug. 2 to Sept. 19 to fill more than 1,500 warehouse jobs in Oklahoma City.

The Center is located at 9201 S Portland and pay will range from $15 to $17.80 an hour. Amazon eventually expects to have 1,750 full-time jobs at the center along with a $146 million in capital investment.

The Amazon Fulfillment Center is expected to open later sthis year and will have same-day shipping on some items that will be offered within a 40-mile radius of the Delivery Center also located in Oklahoma City.

Amazon is in the process of building a second Oklahoma fulfillment center in Tulsa and will also hire 1,500 workers.