Amazon Plans a Greenwood, Indiana, Factory With 300 Jobs by 2028

Amazon’s September 24 announcement says it plans to invest more than $100 million in a 585,000-square-foot advanced manufacturing facility in Greenwood, Indiana. The company expects the site to create 300 skilled manufacturing and engineering jobs and launch by 2028. It has not provided an opening date or a list of positions to apply for.

The facility is designed to make products that support Amazon’s fulfillment and robotics network across North America. Amazon has not named the equipment or components to be produced or said whether any products would be sold to consumers.

What Amazon has announced

Amazon’s release says the facility will cover 585,000 square feet and represents an investment of more than $100 million. The company expects it to launch by 2028. That is a future target, although the announcement gives no ground-breaking date or detailed construction schedule.

The jobs are described as skilled manufacturing and engineering roles. Amazon says the average annual pay will be nearly $100,000. That figure is a company projection for the planned jobs, not a salary range for each role. The release does not show how pay might vary by job, experience, shift, benefits or qualifications, how many roles would fall above or below the average, or whether it includes bonuses or other compensation.

Amazon says it has invested more than $40 billion in Indiana and created more than 27,000 jobs in the state since opening operations there in 2008. Those figures provide company context for the Greenwood plan, but they do not specify how many current employees work nearby or how the new facility may change hiring at other sites.

How the plant fits the company’s network

Amazon says the factory will make products for its fulfillment and robotics network throughout North America. The company operates robotics manufacturing facilities in Massachusetts and announced another robotics investment in Texas in August. It says its U.S. facilities have made more than one million robots, now deployed across more than 300 sites globally. The release says those robots assist with 75% of the customer orders Amazon delivers worldwide; that companywide figure does not describe Greenwood’s expected output.

This background describes Amazon’s stated manufacturing strategy. It does not establish how many of the 300 Greenwood positions will work directly on robots, whether any roles will involve automation maintenance, or how the facility’s products will be distributed. The release does not give a production target or expected annual output.

The hiring details are still ahead

For job seekers, the 300 figure is a projected total tied to a facility expected to launch by 2028. Amazon has not published job titles, hiring dates, application links, qualification requirements or shift information in the announcement. An announced job-creation plan is different from an open vacancy, so the release alone cannot tell a candidate when to apply or whether a role matches their background.

One small r/Indiana discussion raised the question of whether robotics investment would add or replace local work. The thread had 13 points and eight comments in the captured sample. It cannot establish how Indiana residents overall view the project or its net employment effect; Amazon has announced 300 planned roles at the facility and has not quantified effects elsewhere in its network.

The next useful milestones are a construction schedule and the first detailed job postings. Until Amazon releases those details, Greenwood has a defined project size, investment commitment, job target and broad production purpose, while the exact roles and hiring timetable remain open.