Amazon has begun to hire more than 1,200 newly created full-time positions at its new eighth-generation fulfillment center in Kent, the company announced Monday.

Associates at this site will work alongside technologies, including Amazon robotics, on a daily basis to fulfill customer orders.

Kent is the third robotics fulfillment center in Western Washington, with other eighth-generation locations in Sumner and DuPont. Associates at the 800,000-square-foot facility will pick, pack and ship smaller customer orders such as books, electronic devices and toys.

According to the company, full-time employees at Amazon receive competitive hourly wages and a comprehensive benefits package, including health care, 401(k) and company stock awards starting on day one as well as paid parental leave.

Amazon also offers regular full-time employees innovative programs like Career Choice, where it will pre-pay up to 95 percent of tuition for courses related to in-demand fields, regardless of whether the skills are relevant to a career at Amazon. Since the program’s launch, employees are pursuing degrees in game design and visual communications, nursing, IT programming and radiology, to name a few.

Applicants can apply online at www.workatamazonfulfillment.com.