About This Role
This role involves leading a team of technicians and supervisors in a highly technological environment, ensuring the reliability of automated sorting systems and leveraging AI innovations for operational excellence. The position is ideal for a leader who thrives on challenges and wants to make a direct impact on millions of customers.
Responsibilities
- Promote an exemplary safety culture: support your team in rigorous adherence to safety policies and procedures (including LOTO), lead awareness initiatives (toolbox talks, Technician Safety Week), and maintain the goal of zero serious incidents on your site
- Develop and evolve your team's talents: lead, coach, and support technicians, supervisors, and apprentices in their career progression, participate in RMEO and apprenticeship programs, and celebrate exceptional contributions from your employees
- Ensure operational excellence: apply European network standards, plan preventive maintenance operations, optimize the technical availability of sorting and conveying equipment, and contribute to the reduction of High Impact Events and False Fire Alarms
- Drive continuous improvement and innovation: collect and analyze data to identify optimization opportunities, lead Kaizen/QCC projects in collaboration with international teams, and standardize best practices across the network
- Successfully lead site and network-level projects, collaborate with third-party suppliers and internal teams (GES, GPO, Central RME), and develop operational plans to improve productivity and efficiency
Requirements
- University degree
- Prior experience in an industrial or production environment managing complex and varied processes
- Prior experience managing a team of maintenance technicians and supervisors
- Strong commitment to safety and ability to promote a safety culture within the team
- Proficiency in French and English, both spoken and written
Nice to have:
- Knowledge of statutory regulations such as compliance controls and machine safety protocols
- Knowledge of automated equipment, particularly sorting and conveying systems
- Knowledge of data analysis tools and control systems based on programmable logic controllers (PLC)
- Prior experience in project management or Kaizen, Lean, Six Sigma processes
- Knowledge of computer-aided maintenance management systems (CMMS)
About the Company
Amazon manages one of the world's most sophisticated logistics networks, with its sorting centers orchestrating the movement of millions of packages daily between logistics sites and delivery agencies. The RME (Reliability Maintenance Engineering) team is the technical pillar that makes this possible.
