Big employer taking hard look at OKC

[Jake]

Weird.

Good for Owasso and the Tulsa area, though.

Guess OKC will just have to settle for all of its other amazing developments and announcements.

[dmoor82]

Good for them, at least those will be new Oklahoma jobs and not Texas ones. This is still a win in my book, OKC can't get everything.

[G.Walker]

This is a big deal, we are talking about employing 1,000 people, who will pump that money back into the local economy. It will also spur other development in the area, road infrastructure improvements, hotels, restaurants, etc.

[dmoor82]

Didn't Terex announce 1700 jobs for OKC recently? I wonder what the avg. Pay is for an Amazon worker?

[G.Walker]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon....vice_locations

Fulfillment and warehousing

Fulfillment centers are located in the following cities, often near airports. These centers also provide warehousing and order-fulfillment for third-party sellers:[83]

Warehouses are large and each has hundreds of employees. Employees are responsible for four basic tasks: unpacking and inspecting incoming goods; placing goods in storage and recording their location; picking goods from their computer recorded locations to make up an individual shipment; and shipping. A central computer which records the location of goods and maps out routes for pickers plays a central role; employees carry hand-held computers which communicate with the central computer and monitor their rate of progress. A picker with their cart may walk 10 or more miles a day. In the United Kingdom initial staffing was provided by Randstad Holding and other temporary employment agencies. Some workers are accepted as Amazon employees and granted pension and shares of stock; others are dismissed. "When we have permanent positions available, we look to the top performing temporary associates to fill them."[84] Development of a high level of automation is anticipated in the future following Amazon's 2012 acquisition of Kiva Systems, a warehouse automation company.

North America
USA
Goodyear, AZ
Phoenix, AZ
Patterson, CA
San Bernardino, CA
Tracy, CA (opening 2014)
Windsor Locks, CT
Middletown, DE[85]
New Castle, DE
Jeffersonville, IN
Plainfield, IN
Whitestown, IN
Coffeyville, KS
Campbellsville, KY
Hebron, KY (near Cincinnati, OH)
Lexington, KY
Louisville, KY
Baltimore, MD (opening Fall 2014)
Robbinsville, NJ (opening early 2014)[86]
Fernley, NV
North Las Vegas, NV
Nashua, NH
Breinigsville, PA
Carlisle, PA
Hazleton, PA
Lewisberry, PA
Lexington, SC[87][88]
Spartanburg, SC;
Chattanooga, TN
Lebanon, TN
Murfreesboro, TN
Irving, TX[89] (between Dallas and Fort Worth)
Schertz,TX (near San Antonio)
Chester, VA
Dinwiddie, VA (near Richmond, VA)
Sterling, VA
Bellevue, WA
DuPont, WA (opening Fall 2013)
Sumner, WA.[90][91]

[Rover]

This is a very surprising turn.

[dmoor82]

So these jobs are under temp agencies? Low paying 8-12$/hr jobs? Still good for their economy, and the state.

[adaniel]

Amazon pays pretty decently for warehousing jobs, usually $12-15/hr with a good bennies package.

With that in mind, Hobby Lobby pays more at their warehouse (and they are expanding rapidly, which for whatever reason makes little news in the mainstream here). And Terex stated their average starting salary will be a hair over $40K.

[dmoor82]

Wow, didn't realize Amazon paid that decent of a wage! Terex w/1700 employees @40k per year will have a huge impact on our area.

[Pete]

Hold the phone...

Might not be dead after all.

[catch22]

Hold the phone...

Might not be dead after all.

Lmao what a tease.

[onthestrip]

Hopefully OKC isn't in some bidding war, throwing out millions of dollars, against another Oklahoma city for some average paying jobs.

[Pete]

I'm getting conflicting information but expect the final decision will be announced this month.

[soonerguru]

Either way it will be good for Oklahoma and OKC is on a roll.

[Steve]

I'm getting conflicting information but expect the final decision will be announced this month.

You're probably right.

[Urban Pioneer]

Anyone see 60 Minutes Sunday? Great piece on Amazon.

[CaptDave]

Anyone see 60 Minutes Sunday? Great piece on Amazon.

I am not sure delivery drones would be a good idea in Oklahoma - some idiot will try to shoot them down.

[Plutonic Panda]

Didn't Terex announce 1700 jobs for OKC recently? I wonder what the avg. Pay is for an Amazon worker?

Over a ten year period. What could go wrong lol. . .

[kevinpate]

I am not sure delivery drones would be a good idea in Oklahoma - some idiot will try to shoot them down.

try? Redneck Yoda comes to mind.

[MWCGuy]

It would like be a ghetto thug that would shoot one down. Your average redneck understands how ammunition works. What goes up must come down. If you don't hit what your aiming at, it can come back and hit you. Not mention, these drones are likely equipped with cameras and GPS (Yes rednecks use GPS and they used it long before most city slickers had it in their cars and on smartphones)so that it can be verified that the delivery arrived at the correct address and to the correct person. I could see people saying they never received there items or somebody else stealing the item by intercepting it before the owner could receive it. If nothing else, I could see Domino's, Pizza Hut or Papa Johns wanting to use these things.

[Pete]

I'm sad to report that this deal seems to be dead for OKC.

The consultant hired by this company told the City last week that we have been eliminated. Not sure why or that we'll ever know much more.

Also quite sure the company was/is Amazon.

I suspect Owasso may get this instead -- will probably be an official announcement soon.

[Bellaboo]

We may have been too close to the new center in Ft Worth....?

[G.Walker]

I'm sad to report that this deal seems to be dead for OKC.

The consultant hired by this company told the City last week that we have been eliminated. Not sure why or that we'll ever know much more.

Also quite sure the company was/is Amazon.

I suspect Owasso may get this instead -- will probably be an official announcement soon.

Well we had good news and bad news so far this week, we can't win them all.

[Pete]

We may have been too close to the new center in Ft Worth....?

What's strange is that have a large facility in Coffeyville, KS which is only 60 miles from Owasso.

[OKVision4U]

OKC needs to step-up our offering and make this happen. It needs to be big enough to get their attention. Evidently, the previous "package" did not maintain their attention.