Amazon is partnering with Lawson State Community College to offer four employment information sessions for jobs at its new Bessemer fulfillment center.

The center, which is expected to hire 1,500 people, is projected to open toward the end of March. Salaries for these positions are expected to start at $15 an hour.

Construction on the multi-floor fulfillment center began on a 100-plus-acre site in October 2018. The building will be divided into receiving and storing merchandise, then order fulfillment and shipping out. When up and running, it will hold millions of items and be able to dispatch more than 100,000 orders a day, with workers and robots handling orders.

“We are looking forward to Amazon’s job ramp-up and facility opening,” said Jeff Traywick, vice president of economic development at the Birmingham Business Alliance. “The company is currently seeking applicants for management-level staff and will be working to ramp up its workforce in anticipation of its opening in the first quarter. This is the culmination of a wonderful team effort by city, county, state and company partners that stretches back more than a year and a half.”

The employment information sessions will take place Jan. 23 and Jan. 30 at Lawson State at 5:30 p.m. and 7 p.m., both days. No one will be hired at the employment information sessions, organizers say. They are specifically designed to provide information on how to complete the application process.

For more information and to reserve space, click here.

A study commissioned by the Birmingham Business Alliance estimates the fulfillment center should have an annual economic impact of $202.7 million on Jefferson County and a $232.1 million impact on Alabama, according to the Center for Business and Economic Research at The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Business.