Maintenance Area Manager

Amazon TA; Kettering; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking an RME Area Manager to lead a team of expert technicians focused on equipment reliability across one of our operational sites in the UK. You will mentor your team, drive preventative maintenance programs, and collaborate with stakeholders to improve performance and safety.

You will gather and analyse data to identify improvements, manage projects at site and network levels, and adapt plans in a fast-paced environment while ensuring compliance and high availability of critical

Qualifications

• Experience leading maintenance teams in industrial settings.
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders including vendors.
• Strong English communication skills, written and spoken.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of technicians to improve equipment reliability.
• Ensure site safety policies and procedures are followed.
• Plan and execute preventative maintenance and analyze data to improve processes.
• Deliver both site-based and network-level projects.
• Collaborate across teams to drive continuous improvements.

Skills

People management

Team leadership

Data analysis

English proficiency

Education

Degree in Engineering

UK HND/HNC or BTEC

Tools

CMMS

PLC systems

Job 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 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

• "This posiiton will be in a nearby site"
• 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'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 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 Amazon's 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 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

• - Work a flexible schedule/shift/work area, including weekends, nights, and/or holidays
• - 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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