Amazon warehouse in Craigieburn: Melbourne facility to be the size of 11 MCGs and create 2,000 jobs with robots working alongside human staff

Amazon has revealed where it intends to build Australia’s largest warehouse with the facility operated by a fleet of robots.

The automated fulfilment centre will be built at a site in Craigieburn, in Melbourne’s north, with the facility set to open by 2025. 

It will be the largest warehouse in the country, with the venue to be the equivalent size of 11 MCGs and five times bigger than Melbourne’s Federation Square. 

The four-storey facility will be constructed on a mammoth 209,000 square meter plot of land and will cost $8.4 billion to build.

Amazon Australia country chief executive Janet Menzies told The Australian the latest facility is another sign of the strength of the company’s presence down under. 

Amazon will another warehouse in Australia, with the latest ‘fulfillment centre’ set to be the largest warehouse in Australia the size of 11 MCGs

‘It really says that Australia is a very important market for Amazon and we’re really buoyed by the consumer reaction to our offer,’ Ms Menzies said.  

‘Just very excited about the opportunity this will create for new jobs’. 

Daily Mail Australia contacted Amazon for comment. 

The facility is expected to employ 2,000 people across across the centres operations. 

The world’s largest retailer has invested heavily in its operations across Australia. 

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According to findings by investment group Jarden, the US company will be worth $5.5 billion of Australia’s retail market by 2024. 

Amazon already operates six facilities known as ‘fullfillment centres’ in Australia, with the company unveiling it’s latest centre in April 2022. 

The facility in Sydney’s west, currently stores 20 million smaller products across the warehouse on a site just smaller than the centre yet to built in Melbourne. 

Ms Menzies said Amazon’s latest expansion would also be a boost to businesses in delivering their products to customers. 

Robots will work alongside human employees with the machines tasked on collecting the stock from around the warehouse.

The massive warehouse will store up 25 million products and is expected to employ 2000 people in a facility that will be run buy robots

Amazon had rapidly expanded it’s operations in Australia since it set up shop in December 2017, to go on to open six warehouses and now sells 200 million products

Staff will then prepare the packages for shipment to its customers. 

‘Instead of the associate going to the items, the items are coming to the associate. That helps speed [up] order processing time,’ Ms Menzies said. 

The company is dominating Australia’s retail and online shopping market rapidly, overtaking popular Aussie retail companies.  

The retailer’s sales is estimated to be worth $2.6 billion, three times the value of Kogan.com. 

It has increased it’s product range by 60 per-cent to 200 million items across 31 product categories.