Maintenance Technician

Amazon; Warrington; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking Maintenance Technicians to join their teams in the UK. The role involves carrying out planned preventative maintenance, responding to breakdowns, and ensuring high equipment availability. Candidates should have a formal trade qualification and experience in maintenance systems. This position offers full-time shifts and opportunities for continuous improvement within a collaborative team environment.

Qualifications

• Formal Trade Qualification in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering.
• Experience with planned preventative maintenance systems.
• Ability to read and understand electrical/mechanical drawings.

Responsibilities

• Carry out planned preventative maintenance on equipment.
• React quickly to breakdowns and communicate effectively.
• Support continuous improvement and high equipment availability.

Skills

Fault finding

Preventative maintenance

Reading electrical drawings

Conveyor maintenance

Education

Certificate III Electrotechnology

Certificate III Mechanical Engineering

Tools

CMMS systems

Job description

Job ID: 2987945 | Amazon Commercial Services Pty Ltd

Amazon is seeking for Maintenance Technicians to join our teams across Sydney!

The team is hiring for full-time day and night shift roles at the following locations:
- Horsley Park
- Kemps Creek
- Moorebank

Please note that the shift patterns includes 10/12-hour shifts (some shift patterns include one day working during the weekend)

Learnmore about Amazon RME in Australia

Key job responsibilities
- Carry out planned preventative maintenance on the full range of equipment within the site.
- Put health & safety best practices first in all work carried out.
- React quickly to breakdowns, communicate clearly with affected teams and work efficiently to fix the issue.
- Support continuous improvement by learning from breakdowns and sending feedback and suggestions for improvements through the line manager.
- Provide high levels of equipment availability to our internal customers.
- Support and learn from Senior Maintenance Technicians.


A day in the life
Our Technicians are based on-site, so they can respond quickly to any machinery issues. You’ll carry out a range of planned preventative maintenance to our sites’ equipment to make sure it’s working safely. As a Technician, you’ll also respond promptly to breakdowns, investigating, finding, and implementing solutions as quickly as possible. You’ll also make suggestions for long-term improvements.
Working alongside senior colleagues, you’ll undertake day-to-day maintenance tasks and general building maintenance.

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 team players and guided by experienced leaders. We work together to maintain, troubleshoot and repair equipment across our global network.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Formal Trade Qualification: served a full apprenticeship in either Electrical or Mechanical Engineering qualified to a minimum of Certificate III Electrotechnology with current electrical trade license OR Cert III Mechanical Engineering (Fitter/Turner). Alternatively, an equivalent apprenticeship in either Electrical or Mechanical formally recognised in Australia.
- Experience of planned preventative maintenance systems.
- Experience fault finding within Material Handling Equipment/Automation systems.
- Ability to read and understand electrical/mechanical drawings.
- Experience of conveyor maintenance, motor controllers/inverters.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 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.
- Experience with CMMS systems.
- Experience with sortation machines.
- Experience with maintaining/configuring bar code scanners.
- Experience with print and apply machines.

Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

IDE statement:
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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