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Amazon announced September 24 that it plans to invest more than $100 million in a 585,000-square-foot advanced manufacturing facility in Greenwood, Indiana, creating 300 skilled manufacturing and engineering jobs. The plant “will produce products that power Amazon’s fulfillment and robotics network across North America and is expected to launch by 2028,” the company said. Amazon says the jobs will pay an average of nearly $100,000 a year. These are planned positions at a facility that is not yet operating.
An existing building, a new kind of Amazon job
According to Indiana Gov. Mike Braun’s office, Amazon will purchase and equip an existing 585,000-square-foot building at 1175 Collins Road in Greenwood, with the jobs expected by the end of 2028. Neither Amazon’s nor the state’s announcement discloses any state incentive.
The project moves part of the robotics story from warehouses that use automation to a factory that builds its components. Amazon lists the roles it expects to hire: CNC operators, welders, powder-coating technicians, assemblers, manufacturing engineers, quality-assurance specialists, controls engineers and program managers. The plant will combine advanced fabrication, robotic welding, automated powder coating and assembly.
The $100,000 figure is a company-projected average across roles. It should not be assumed for any particular position or shift; applicants should rely on Amazon’s actual job listings for pay, qualifications and opening dates.
What it means for the region
For workforce planners, the facility points to demand for machinists, welders, maintenance and automation technicians and engineers well before full production. The state highlighted Purdue University, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and Ivy Tech Community College as a talent pipeline that produces more than 2,500 industrial-engineering graduates a year, though no formal training partnership was announced. Construction and supplier effects have not been quantified and should not be assumed.
Amazon says it has invested more than $40 billion in Indiana and created more than 27,000 jobs in the state since 2008.
What to watch
A company announcement is strong evidence of intent, but realized employment is best checked against openings and completed hires. The next milestones are Amazon’s purchase and fit-out of the Collins Road building, the first advertised technical positions, and any training agreements with local colleges.
Sources
- Amazon, “Amazon to Create 300 High-Paying Jobs at New Advanced Manufacturing Facility in Greenwood, Indiana,” September 24, 2026. https://press.aboutamazon.com/
- Office of Indiana Gov. Mike Braun, announcement of the Amazon Greenwood facility, September 24, 2026. https://www.einpresswire.com/article/944956120/
Featured photo: An Amazon warehouse drive-unit robot, photographed in 2020. Representative image of the robotics network the Greenwood plant will supply; it is not the Greenwood facility. Photo: Geni, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). Cropped from the original.
