Reliability Maintenance Engineering Area Manager, AMZL

Operations is the beating heart of Amazon. This key part of our business makes sure we fulfil and dispatch orders efficiently so that our customers get their items on time. As an Area Manager youll make sure your site is running as smoothly as it should so that we can meet customer demand. You will be leading a team that helps keep our operations safe efficient and of a high quality and taking on a number of projects across our network to drive productivity.

Key job responsibilities
Create oversee and drive a culture of safety and wellbeing
Analyse and implement changes to keep quality and productivity at a consistently high level
Oversee projects to streamline processes optimise productivity and increase quality of service for customers within your area of responsibility
Analyse shift performance against relevant business objectives and put in place actions to improve our operational excellence
Work collaboratively with management-level colleagues to standardise shift practices

A day in the life
Youll work on a shift pattern at one of our sites making sure it is as productive as it can be. Your main focus will be to own and drive a culture of safety and uphold quality and shift performance standards. Youll also oversee process improvements within your area and drive implementation. A typical day is varied including everything from routine team management and daily operational responsibilities to process improvement and wide-scale operational contingency tasks. Youll also be a role model and mentor to new managers.

About the team
Our Reliability Maintenance Engineering or RME team keep our equipment performing at its best. Were 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 fulfilment centres. Some of our people are leaders who oversee the team as they work on exciting technology some of which only exists 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 Amazons technical side. This includes keeping buildings legally compliant so everyone is safe and our sites are operating 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 Amazons 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 technology.

- Experience supervising teams
- Experience in reliability/maintenance environments or experience in similar environments
- A degree
- Relevant experience in people management
- Relevant experience of communicating with a wide range of stakeholders including your peers and leadership
- Relevant experience in using data or anecdotal evidence to influence business decisions
- Advanced proficiency in verbal and written English and local language

- Bachelors degree in engineering or a related 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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