Refrigeration Engineer, Reliability, Maintenance, and Engineering (RME)

At Amazon, we believe that Every Day is still Day One! We’re working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright and driven people.The goal of this team is to exceed the expectations of our customers by ensuring that their orders, no matter how large or small, are delivered as quickly, accurately, and cost effectively as possible. To meet this goal, we are continually striving to innovate and provide best in class service levels through the introduction of pioneering new products and services. To that end, Amazon is seeking an engineer over maintenance, repair and vendor management operations to support grocery expansion across the North American market.Key job responsibilities - Provide field support for refrigeration sites across assigned geography including support for operations, field maintenance, and food safety partners - Manage multiple complex projects and tasks simultaneously as well as be able to influence, and develop relationships at all organization levels. - Oversee the maintenance acceptance of part of commissioning large-scale, complex projects. - Provide leadership and mentoring to facilities maintenance leadership and operations teams. - Be involved in design review process across the North American market while providing guidance and professional recommendations on equipment standardization procurement to leverage scale, cost savings opportunities, and to standardize maintenance activities as we continue to expand the business.- Travel domestically up to 50%. - Please request information on additional office/site locations that may be available. - Understanding of refrigeration systems, troubleshooting, design, and repair- Familiarity with low-GWP refrigerants, pending regulatory requirements, and design changes- Ability to communicate technical information to non-technical audiencesBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of directly managing and responsible for multiple large projects experience- Bachelor's degree- Experience and strong technical background in relevant fields of automated or non-automated material handling equipment ...

Regional Maintenance Manager

Amazon is a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, Washington, is the global leader in e-commerce. Since our start in 1995, we have significantly expanded our product offerings, international sites, and worldwide network of fulfillment and customer service centers. Our focus on the customer and innovation drives the growth of Amazon, offering our customers more types of products, more conveniently, and at even lower prices. We are seeking a dynamic, organized self-starter to be a Regional Manager (RM) of Facilities Maintenance to join our corporate-based engineering team. The team is comprised of two other RMs and reporting to the Facilities Maintenance Director, to manage and lead Facilities Managers and Facilities Area Manager (Shift supervisors). The primary responsibility is to maximize equipment uptime, execute equipment maintenance and projects in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment.The successful candidate will be a highly experienced subject matter expert in facilities maintenance, workplace safety, and data driven management and leadership. A background in MHE systems/applications, packaging automation, distribution processes and storage systems is a plus. The candidate must be a self-starter, possessing the ability to manage multiple complex projects and tasks simultaneously as well as be able to influence, and develop relationships at all organization levels. The candidate must be capable of overseeing the maintenance acceptance of part of commissioning large-scale, complex projects. Moreover, this individual will need to be adept at providing technical leadership and mentoring to facilities maintenance leadership.Key job responsibilities• Provide leadership, mentor and manage field-based Facilities Mangers in the expansion and continuous improvement of Amazon’s North American Fulfillment Network.• Drive maintenance Best Practices: Innovate, document, improve work methods, standardize, provide a safe work environment and require safe work practices, train, commission equipment, collect, measure, and analyze key performance indicators to improve processes and improve Amazon customers experience.• Offer guidance to senior leadership on maintenance and equipment end of life (EOL) issues using ROI, and other analytical techniques.• Provide oversight for budget development and execution, and capital planning.• Help manage vendor support and equipment relationships and leverage Amazon’s network size to maximize economies of scale.• Provide frequent on-site monitoring, auditing and enforcement of maintenance execution, safe work practices, and institute and audit training drills across the network.• Leverage the entire maintenance team for the benefit of the North American network.• Develop and manage budget and contract documents including RFPs, change order controls, purchase orders, and invoicing.• Provide Fulfillment Center General Managers with visibility over facilities manager responsibilities so that they can better understand, lead, mentor, and manage FMs.• Recruit, interview, and hire bar raising talent in the Facilities Maintenance and Facilities Area Manager roles.• Help create a world-class facilities maintenance organization.• Be willing and able to relocate for the needs of Amazon.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- BS in Industrial or Mechanical Engineering or related discipline or BS/BA with 4+ years experience in maintenance or 2+ years Amazon experience- Previous corporate and/or regional facilities roles leading 250 or more employees including salaried employees- Experience leading change in a multiple site environments- 7+ years experience managing employees and their performance- Ability to travel up to 80% ...