Job ID: | Amazon UK Services Ltd.
At Amazon, we have hundreds of facilities across Europe. They’re not just workplaces–they’re our hubs where teams meet and collaborate to ensure we’re always delivering the best to our customers. As a Reliability Maintenance Engineering (RME) Area Manager, you’ll bring together the elements that make our working environment supportive and efficient, focusing on leading and mentoring a team of expert technicians dedicated to equipment reliability.
Key job 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 analyze data to improve processes
* Deliver and support both site-based and network-level projects
* Lead, support and mentor your team to develop their career
About the team
Our Reliability Maintenance Engineering (RME) team keeps our equipment performing at its best. We’re a technically minded team, made up of excellent team players and guided by experienced leaders. We work together to maintain, troubleshoot, and repair equipment across our global network of fulfillment centres. Some of our people are leaders who oversee the team as they work on exciting technology – some of which exists only at Amazon.
From installing automated packaging systems to overseeing the general maintenance of a site to repairing key distribution equipment, our team handles most aspects of Amazon’s technical side. This includes keeping buildings legally compliant so everyone is safe and our sites operate at maximum efficiency. There are lots of opportunities for progression, both within the RME team and more widely across Amazon.
Everything we do focuses on reducing downtime in Amazon’s crucial operations sites, so customers get their orders on time. We often work during early or late hours to carry out maintenance with minimal disruption, including night shifts. If we spot a better way to do something, we have the skills and the opportunity to develop and introduce completely new processes or cutting‑edge 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 and upper intermediate proficiency in local language
Preferred Qualifications
* A degree in Engineering or another technical field
* A UK Higher National Diploma (HND), Higher National Certificate (HNC), BTEC National Diploma (OND), Ieng, CEng or ILM L4+
* 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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