Maintenance Area Manager

Job ID: 3199518 | Amazon UK Services Ltd.

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 supportive and efficient. 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

About the Team

Our Reliability Maintenance Engineering or RME team keeps 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. 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 operate at maximum efficiency. There are many opportunities for progression, both within the RME team and 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 opportunity to develop and introduce new processes or cutting‑edge technology like Amazon Robotics and our Complex Item Sorter.

Basic Qualifications

• 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), IELTS, CEng or ILM L4+
• Experience with statutory regulations such as compliance checks and machine safety protocols
• Experience in automated equipment, including packaging machinery, sortation and conveyor systems
• Experience with 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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