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Online retail giant Amazon.com Inc. said Wednesday it is hiring for nearly 1,000 full-time jobs at its two fulfillment centers in Chesterfield County and Dinwiddie County.

The local hiring is part of a larger program to add 2,500 full-time jobs at some of its U.S. fulfillment centers, which are distribution plants where the company stores and ships customer orders.

The Seattle-based company said jobs are available in picking, packing and shipping at the local fulfillment centers.

In addition to hiring at the local sites, the company said it is filling jobs at fulfillment centers in Tennessee, South Carolina, Kansas and Washington.

“It is a significant increase,” said Kelly Cheeseman, a spokeswoman for the company. “We are hiring in order to meet customer demand.”

Cheeseman said the company now has about 2,000 employees at its plant in the Meadowville Technology Park in Chesterfield and nearly 600 full-time workers at its warehouse in Dinwiddie. Both sites opened in late 2012.

When Amazon announced plans in 2011 to invest $135 million to open the two sites, the company said it expected they would employ a combined total of 1,350 people.