MFG Specialist Technician Lead, Robotics Manufacturing & Technical Operations

Socket.dev; North Reading (MA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Robotics is seeking an Industrial Maintenance Technician to oversee the installation and maintenance of our industrial equipment. You will ensure smooth operation, perform services, and troubleshoot breakdowns, keeping production running efficiently.

Candidates should bring advanced mechanical knowledge, strong troubleshooting skills, and good time-management to support safety standards and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Advanced mechanical knowledge of industrial machinery.
• Excellent troubleshooting abilities.
• Good time-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Oversee installation and initiation of new industrial equipment.
• Perform regular service and preventive maintenance on machinery.
• Troubleshoot equipment breakdowns and plant issues with data-driven approach.
• Lead day-to-day team coordination and communicate status to leadership.
• Provide clear written and verbal instructions to technicians and operators.

Skills

Advanced mechanical knowledge

Troubleshooting skills

Time management

Job description

Are you inspired by invention? Is problem solving through teamwork in your DNA? Do you like the idea of seeing how your work impacts the bigger picture? Answer yes to any of these and you’ll fit right in here at Amazon Robotics. We are a smart team of doers that work passionately to apply advances in robotics and software to solve real-world challenges that will transform our customers’ experiences in ways we can’t even image yet. We invent new improvements every day. We are Amazon Robotics and we will give you the tools and support you need to invent with us in ways that are rewarding, fulfilling and fun.

Amazon Robotics is seeking a skilled Industrial maintenance technician to oversee the installation and maintenance of our industrial equipment. As an industrial maintenance technician, you will be responsible for ensuring the smooth operation of our machinery and mechanical equipment. This will include installing new equipment, performing regular services and maintenance procedures, and troubleshooting equipment breakdowns.

To ensure success as an industrial maintenance technician, you should have advanced mechanical knowledge of industrial machinery, excellent troubleshooting skills, and good time-management skills. Ultimately, a top-class industrial maintenance technician boosts production by ensuring all production equipment functions correctly and receives regular maintenance.

Key job responsibilities

Specialized Equipment Scope

You are the site technical resource across the following:

• Powered Industrial Trucks (PIT) - sit-down and stand-up forklifts, electric pallet jacks, walkie riders. Sets and enforces travel-lane, load-height, and dock-loading standards; owns operator qualification currency for the shift.
• Scissor lifts and aerial work platforms - pre-use inspection, fall-protection expectations, restricted-area and low-clearance controls.
• Cranes and hoists - rigging selection, load ratings, sling and hook inspection, periodic-inspection compliance, and safe lift planning for drive-unit and subassembly handling.
• WorkSmart stations - station configuration, guided-build sequencing, and troubleshooting following the Line 4 / Line 5 WorkSmart conversion.
• Knight lift-assist and articulating torque-arm systems - setup, balance and reach adjustment, torque-reaction troubleshooting, and preventive maintenance.
• Lift assists and lift tables - including the 600-03252 lift-table build; ergonomic setup, capacity verification, and pinch and crush-point guarding.
• End effectors and build tooling - changeover, alignment, wear inspection, and coordination with Engineering on tooling revisions.
• Torque tooling and fastening systems - DC electric and pneumatic torque tools, torque-arm integration, calibration currency, and NOK (not-OK fastening) rundown troubleshooting.
• Controls and drive systems - PLC and control-system troubleshooting, AC/DC motors, starters, relays, VFDs, and power and control wiring.
• Fluid power and conveyance - pneumatics, hydraulics, gearboxes, cylinders, pumps, valves, conveyor and material-handling systems.

Leadership, Communication, and Daily Operating Rhythm

• Serve as the first line of communication to leadership on workcenter, equipment, and process performance, blockers, and team status.
• Communicate status, escalations, and blockers with cross-functional leads in upstream and downstream processes, and share lessons learned to drive continuous organizational improvement.
• Partner with your Operations Manager to plan and execute daily activities and assign tasks within the work group; re-prioritize in real time as production demand shifts.
• Lead daily team meeting facilitation and end-of-shift reporting, and coordinate efforts to minimize production interruptions.
• Provide clear written and verbal instructions to group members and promptly address process or technical questions and concerns.
• Resolve team work blockers and general team needs; escalade what you cannot resolve with a recommendation attached.
• Educate cross-functional peers and leaders across the organization about your process path.

Technical Ownership and Problem Solving

• Act as the subject matter expert on all process paths within your area of responsibility, and be the first point of contact for process issues - including providing guidance when the team needs to deviate from written instructions.
• Troubleshoot equipment, controls, and process problems, including tasks with no existing documentation, and escalation with supporting data when resolution is not achievable.li>
• Make and support decisions involving resource constraints, balancing competing priorities across the workcenter.
• Troubleshoot issues encountered by peers across the specialized equipment set and on the manufacturing systems that support it.
• Lead root‑cause analysis on repeat equipment failures and fastening or torque defects, and drive the corrective action to closure.
• Execute to, and where needed define, straightforward work instructions while validating SOPs; own SOP accuracy for your equipment.

Preventive Maintenance and Equipment Readiness

• Own and improve preventive maintenance schedules for the specialized equipment set; verify completion and quality of PM execution rather than only performing it.
• Install new equipment and coordinate commissioning, working from technical manuals, engineering drawings, and vendor documentation.
• Identify and order replacement parts, and maintain inventory records for equipment and spares.
• Inspect equipment operating conditions, identify root causes of recurring equipment problems, and drive permanent fixes over repeat repairs.
• Prepare and submit maintenance reports; maintain equipment history and calibration currency.
• Support the equipment readiness portion of new product introduction and line‑conversion work, including Proteus GEN2 and future line expansion.

Performance, Quality, and Continuous Improvement

• Review team performance metrics - non‑conformances generated, throughput, machine efficiency, downtime, and first pass yield (FPY) - to ensure conformance to operational goals, and act on what the data shows.
• Set expectations for productivity and quality standards by role modeling best practices.
• Lead process improvement initiatives including 6S, Kaizen, and safety projects, with a defined deliverable and a measurable result.
• Review, and where required perform, first article builds from engineering drawings, models, or specifications; support development articles with more limited engineering definition.

Safety Leadership

• Role model job and site safety standards and operations protocol while ensuring team compliance - not only personal compliance.
• Escalate safety issues and follow up corrective actions to verified closure.
• Own the caught‑and‑crush, pinch‑point, and ergonomic risk controls associated with lift assists, torque arms, cranes and hoists, and PIT operations.
• Support pre‑shift safety briefs, submit and follow up DragonFly submissions, and support incident documentation in AUSTIN.
• Verify operator