SUFFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Virginia’s first Amazon Robotics Fulfillment Center is open and operating in Suffolk. The facility adds 1,500 new jobs to Hampton Roads. The facility is filled with hundreds of robots helping workers get the job done.
“The future of the Commonwealth is bright,” said Gov. Glenn Youngkin.
The 3.8 million-square-foot facility provides jobs for more than 1,500 full-time employees with competitive pay and benefits starting on day one.
The future includes a partnership with Amazon to expand the company in the Commonwealth. Amazon’s 9th fulfillment operations facility, known as ORF3, is pushing around 200,000 packages a day.
General Manager, Gregory Lum, said the backbone of ORF3 is robots.
“We are actually able to take advantage of our robotics technology to scale our operation and actually hire more employees,” he said.
