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 always 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.
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 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.
- Experience in engineering team management
- 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 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 are not required to apply for a position at Amazon. If you have all the basic qualifications above, we’d love to hear from you.
- 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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