Industrial Maintenance Technician

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Job Summary: Industrial Maintenance Technician at Amazon RME, responsible for maintaining essential machinery, ensuring safety, and improving the operational environment, thereby contributing to equipment availability and quality. Key Highlights: 1. Maintain essential machinery and ensure operational safety. 2. Perform preventive maintenance and rapid repairs of failures. 3. Contribute to continuous improvement and the development of new technologies. **DESCRIPTION** --------------- Amazon’s Maintenance and Reliability Engineering (RME) team is fundamental to our operations, as it ensures essential machinery remains continuously operational. As a Maintenance Technician, you will inspect a wide variety of machinery and workspaces, always upholding best practices in health and safety. You will help protect your team members and prevent operational disruptions. Our Maintenance and Reliability Technicians significantly increase machinery availability and quality while also improving the operational environment. Key job responsibilities * Carry out proactive and preventive maintenance tasks on a wide variety of equipment. * Perform reactive repairs and failure diagnostics in an active distribution warehouse. * Use state-of-the-art tools to maximize equipment effectiveness. * Comply with all health and safety policies and practices. * Contribute to employee development and training in best practices. * 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 them to respond rapidly to any machinery issues that arise. You will be responsible for performing scheduled preventive maintenance on facility equipment to ensure safe operation. As a Maintenance and Reliability Engineering Technician, you must also respond swiftly to any failures—investigating, identifying, and implementing solutions as soon as possible—and propose long-term improvements. You will handle daily maintenance tasks—including painting and plumbing—collaborating side-by-side with senior team members, and contacting contractors when external assistance is required. You will work rotating shifts to ensure our facilities have 24/7 support, enabling Amazon to maintain its standard delivery speed. About the team Our Maintenance and Reliability Engineering (RME) team ensures our systems operate at peak performance. We are distinguished by strong technical aptitude and excellent teamwork capabilities, led by highly experienced managers. Our work encompasses maintenance, repair, and troubleshooting of equipment across Amazon’s global network of distribution centers. The team includes leadership roles overseeing the development of cutting-edge technologies—some of which exist exclusively at Amazon. Our team handles most technical aspects of Amazon operations, performing tasks ranging 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 focuses 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, requiring night-shift rotations. 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—such as Amazon Robotics and our complex item sortation system.**BASIC QUALIFICATIONS** ------------------------ * 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** ---------------------------- * Preferred qualifications are a plus but not mandatory to apply for this position. If you meet the basic qualifications listed above, we would love to meet you. * Experience with condition-based monitoring. * Experience operating label printers and applicators. * Experience diagnosing failures and maintaining conveyor or automation systems. Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. 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