Reliability Engineering Manager

This role focuses on individuals with military experience interested in transitioning to the private sector. Amazon's military recruiting team is available to discuss the various opportunities within Amazon.

At Amazon, thousands of former military personnel are driving innovation and raising the bar on customer experience. On a daily basis, those with military backgrounds are able to apply their knowledge, skills, and leadership abilities in a wide variety of careers – influencing change across the globe.

When we hire you at Amazon, we invest in your future. With unlimited career opportunities, Amazon ensures our teams are always challenged, constantly learning from each other, and creatively contributing to our next big idea. You will be surrounded by the best innovators of our time and we welcome you to make history with us.

For those who have military experience, we are looking to hire you.

The Reliability Engineering Manager is the site lead for all Engineering matters within a building. They are responsible for leading their team and building a culture of safety; for ensuring all statutory compliance requirements are followed to provide a safe working environment for all occupants of the building; for providing a high level of equipment availability to the General Manager and for working with the EU Engineering team to plan for future growth. They are also required to take part in network-wide improvement initiatives and to implement standards created elsewhere in the network.

1. Lead the team, own the annual reporting responsibilities for the team and mentor their direct reports who in turn develop the technicians within the team.
2. Work with the site Safety department and Site Leadership to implement, record and audit safety and statutory compliance programs to provide a safe working environment for all staff.
3. Own the legal responsibilities as the site engineering lead within this framework.
4. Work with the recruitment team to ensure allocated headcount is filled with high-quality experienced staff. This may include support to Apprentice and Graduate programs.
5. Implement standards validated by the EU Engineering team and participate in continuous improvement initiatives to create or update standards as required in order to provide high levels of safety and equipment availability to our internal customers.
6. A key focus is on preventative maintenance programs.
7. Maintain equipment failure contingency plans, drive rehearsals with affected parties and be prepared to work in a flexible manner to ensure failures or breakdowns are rectified as quickly as possible.
8. Maintain a long-term focus by working with Site Management, Finance, the EU Engineering team, and internal design teams to plan for future growth, upgrades, or new equipment rollouts.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Italy.