Description
Job Summary:
Amazon’s Maintenance and Reliability Technician ensures the essential operation of machinery while upholding high health and safety standards and continuously improving the operational environment.
Key Highlights:
1. Maintain essential machinery and workspaces
2. Perform proactive maintenance and reactive repairs
3. Contribute to employee development and training
**DESCRIPTION**
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Amazon’s Reliability, Maintenance & Engineering (RME) team is fundamental to our operations, responsible for keeping essential machinery running continuously. As a Maintenance Technician, you will inspect a wide variety of machinery and workspaces, always adhering to best practices in health and safety. You will help protect your team members and prevent operational disruptions. Our Maintenance and Reliability Technicians increase equipment availability and quality, while also driving improvements in the operational environment.
Key job responsibilities
* Perform proactive and preventive maintenance tasks on a wide range of equipment.
* Carry out reactive repairs and fault diagnostics in an active distribution center.
* Use state-of-the-art tools to maximize equipment effectiveness.
* Comply with all health and safety policies and practices.
* Contribute to employee development and on-the-job training.
* Work on continuous improvement projects and implement best practices across various EU sites.
A day in the life
Our Maintenance and Reliability Technicians work onsite at our facilities, enabling rapid response to any machinery issues. You will be responsible for scheduled preventive maintenance of facility equipment to ensure safe operation. As a Maintenance and Reliability Engineering Technician, you must also respond swiftly to breakdowns—investigating, identifying, and implementing solutions as quickly as possible—and propose long-term improvements.
You will handle daily maintenance tasks such as painting and plumbing, working side-by-side with senior team members, and liaising with contractors when external support is required. You will work rotating shifts to ensure 24/7 coverage at our facilities, enabling Amazon to maintain its standard delivery speed.
About the team
Our Reliability, Maintenance & Engineering (RME) team ensures our systems operate at peak performance. We are distinguished by strong technical aptitude and exceptional teamwork skills, led by highly experienced managers. Our work encompasses maintenance, repair, and troubleshooting of equipment across Amazon’s global network of fulfillment centers. The team includes leadership roles overseeing the development of cutting-edge technologies—some unique to Amazon.
Our team handles most technical aspects of Amazon operations—from installing automated packaging systems to overseeing general facility maintenance or repairing critical distribution equipment. This includes adapting buildings to comply with current legislation, ensuring staff safety and maximizing facility efficiency. Like other Amazon departments, the RME team offers numerous opportunities for professional growth.
All our work centers on minimizing downtime at Amazon’s critical operations centers so customers receive their orders on time. We frequently work overnight or late-night shifts to perform maintenance with minimal disruption, thus working night shifts. If we identify a better way to do something, we have both the capability and opportunity to develop and introduce entirely new processes or cutting-edge technology—including Amazon Robotics and our complex item sortation system.**BASIC QUALIFICATIONS**
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* Experience with scheduled preventive maintenance systems
* Experience with mechanical and/or electrical maintenance tasks
* Experience troubleshooting Material Handling Equipment (MHE) / Automation systems
* Advanced level of Spanish, both spoken and written
**PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS**
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* Preferred qualifications are a plus but not mandatory to apply. If you meet the basic qualifications listed above, we would love to hear from you.
* Experience with condition-based monitoring
* Experience operating label printers and applicators
* Experience diagnosing faults and maintaining conveyor or automation systems
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