Description
Job Summary:
Leads and guides a team of expert technicians to ensure the reliability of Amazon’s facilities, improves processes, and guarantees workplace safety.
Key Highlights:
1. Leads and develops a team of maintenance and reliability engineers.
2. Implements network standards and improves operational processes.
3. Works with advanced technologies such as Amazon Robotics.
**DESCRIPTION**
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Amazon operates hundreds of facilities across Europe. These are not merely workplaces but collaborative hubs where teams come together to ensure we always deliver our best to customers. As an Area Manager for Maintenance and Reliability Engineering, your role is to integrate all elements that make our work environment as supportive and efficient as possible. You will lead and guide a team of expert technicians to ensure facility reliability.
Key job responsibilities
* Support team members in adhering to workplace safety policies and procedures.
* Implement EU network standards, plan preventive maintenance tasks, and ensure technical availability.
* Collaborate with other staff to collect and analyze data to improve processes.
* Execute and oversee projects both locally and across the network.
* Lead, support, and guide team members to foster their professional development.
A day in the life
You will work at one of our operational centers, enabling you to provide hands-on guidance to your team and gain clear visibility into center operations. This involves collecting data and resolving issues in a dynamic work environment. You will also have the opportunity to develop an operations plan to increase productivity and efficiency at the center. To achieve this, you are expected to launch comprehensive improvement initiatives covering both operational processes and equipment maintenance. After safety, the most critical function of this role is leading your team and ensuring their performance and development—this includes organizing training courses.
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 exceptional teamwork capabilities, led by experienced managers. Our work encompasses maintenance, repair, and troubleshooting of equipment across Amazon’s global distribution center network. The team includes leadership roles responsible for overseeing the development of fascinating 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 supervising general facility maintenance or repairing key distribution equipment. This includes adapting buildings to comply with current legislation so that all personnel remain safe and our facilities operate at maximum 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 at night to conduct maintenance with minimal disruption, requiring night shifts. If we identify a better way to do something, we have the capability and authority to develop and implement entirely new processes or cutting-edge technology—such as Amazon Robotics and our complex item sorter.**BASIC QUALIFICATIONS**
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* Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline.
* Relevant experience as part of a maintenance team in an industrial or production environment managing diverse, complex business processes.
* Relevant experience managing a team of engineers.
* Relevant experience coordinating and managing relationships with various business partners, including external vendors.
* Advanced level of English (both spoken and written) and upper-intermediate level of Spanish.
**PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS**
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* Preferred qualifications are a plus but not required to apply. If you meet the basic qualifications listed above, we would love to meet you.
* Experience working with regulatory frameworks, such as compliance controls and machine safety protocols.
* Experience with automated equipment, including packaging machinery and sorting and conveyance systems.
* Experience with data analytics tools and PLC-based control systems.
* Experience managing Kaizen, Lean, or Six Sigma projects or processes.
* Experience with computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS).
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