New Jobs for Fife

Fife Labour leader Alex Rowley has welcomed the announcement that Amazon is to build a new purpose build fulfilment centre in Dunfermline brining 750 jobs to the area.

Mr Rowley said: “This decision is a real vote of confidence in Dunfermline and in Fife and shows that we have people with the shills, talent and commitment to attract such investment into the city of Dunfermline ”.

“I believe this is the first of many good new stories on the employment front that will come to the Dunfermline area over this year and we must move forward with confidence to ensure people are able to have access to training and skills to take advantage of the new jobs as they are created. We have a strong local labour market and I would expect all the agencies will work together to make sure local people get access to the jobs”.

About Mark Hood

Mark lives on Lochgelly with his wife Geraldine and his twin girls Lily and Daisy. Born in St Andrews in Fife in 1970, Mark attended St Agatha’s primary before going on to St Andrews high. Mark started his working life as an apprentice electronic technician working with Rodime the hard disk drive manufacturer. While working at Rodime Mark completed an HNC in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. The recession of the early 1990′s led Rodime into receivership. As a newly qualified apprentice work was hard to come by and Mark decided to enrol in an degree course at Edinburgh university to study Electronic Engineering. After a couple years Mark went on to work in the electronic industry before joining a Kirkcaldy based IT company as a workshop technician.