Overview
Description
At Amazon, we have hundreds of facilities across Europe. They’re not just workplaces – they’re our hubs where teams meet and collaborate to make sure we’re delivering the best we can for our customers. As a Reliability Maintenance Engineering (RME) Area Manager, you’ll bring together the elements that make our working environment as supportive and efficient as possible. Your focus will be to lead and mentor a team of expert technicians dedicated to equipment reliability.
Responsibilities
* Support colleagues in site compliance with safety policies and procedures
* Implement EU network standards, plan preventative maintenance and ensure technical availability
* Collaborate with colleagues to collect and analyse data to improve processes
* Deliver and support both site-based and network-level projects
* Lead, support and mentor your team to develop their career
A day in the life
You’ll be based at one of our operational sites, which allows you to give practical guidance to your team and get a clear vision of what’s happening at your site. This involves collecting data and solving problems in a fast-paced environment. You’ll also have a chance to create an operational plan to make the site more productive and efficient. That will involve setting up new projects that improve everything from operational processes to equipment maintenance. After safety, the most important part of the role is leading your team and managing their performance and development, including organising additional training.
About The Team
Our Reliability Maintenance Engineering or RME team keep our equipment performing at its best. We work together to maintain, troubleshoot and repair equipment across our global network of fulfilment centres. There are opportunities for progression within the RME team and across Amazon. We focus on reducing downtime in Amazon’s crucial operations sites, sometimes working during early or late hours to carry out maintenance with minimal disruption, including night shifts. We may develop and introduce new processes or advanced tech like Amazon Robotics and our Complex Item Sorter.
Basic Qualifications
* Relevant experience as part of a maintenance team in an industrial or production environment that handles a variety of complex business processes
* Relevant experience in managing people in an engineering team
* Relevant experience in liaising and managing relationships between a variety of stakeholders including third-party vendors
* Advanced proficiency in written and spoken English
Preferred Qualifications
* A degree in Engineering or another technical field
* A UK Higher National Diploma (HND), Higher National Certificate (HNC), BTEC National Diploma (OND)
* Experience of working with statutory regulations such as compliance checks and machine safety protocols
* Experience in automated equipment, including packaging machinery, sortation and conveyor systems
* Experience of using data analysis tools and PLC-based control systems
* Experience with project management or Kaizen, Lean, Six Sigma processes
* Experience with Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS)
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Company - Amazon UK Services Ltd.
Job ID: A3137578
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