Sort Center Area Manager Jr, Sort Center

Amazon is hiring a Sort Center Area Manager Jr, Sort Center. Level rates it ; you can apply on Level.

AI in this role

Amazon is looking for high-potential leaders, who are ready to own their impact in Amazon Operations as an entry-level manager. We promise you will have your leadership capacity stretched to its full potential. As a front-line leader, you will have an opportunity to truly invest in others and develop a people-focused leadership style, while mastering the tools, processes, and operations that have created the most customer-centric company on Earth. If you want to be involved in continuing to define the future of online retail, and are dynamic and an organized self-starter, join our team in Amazon Operations as an Area Manager Jr.
As an Area Manager Jr, you will have the opportunity to lead and develop your own team of Amazon Associates in a Sort Center environment. Your main focus will be motivating, mentoring and coaching your team. As a servant leader, the Area Manager Jr will ensure that their team of Amazon Associates have all the tools needed to succeed for any task during a shift. Engaging with your team during a shift to ensure that the highest levels of safety, quality, attendance performance and engagement are maintained are core functions of the role. Come learn how the largest online retailer in the world runs its fulfillment and delivery networks!

As Sort Center Area Manager Jr, you will be in charge of part of the operation of our work centers during an assigned shift. These operations involve the management of human, technological and physical resources to ensure the correct execution of the daily operation plan aligned with results.
Within these functions you will be mainly in charge of:
• Continuous improvement pillar: Propose, plan and execute continuous improvement strategies that seek continuous operational efficiency.
• Industrial Safety Pillar: During the shift, you are the main person in charge of safeguarding the well-being of the personnel under your charge, being directly or indirectly hired by the company.
• Pillar Talent Management: Being a Manager at Amazon is a privilege and a responsibility, as a Manager, you will be focused on hiring and developing a workforce who will become the next Amazon leaders.
• Operational Pillar: Review the operational forecast and determine productivity requirements for the operation.
This role is fully onsite and requires flexibility to work and rotate shifts: weekends, holidays, and/or overnight shifts, and Ability to work overtime both in peak season and as needed.

Responsibilities:
• You will be part of the Amazon Operations Team, responsible of the day-to-day management of the site, overseeing the operation that focuses on the delivery of Amazon orders direct to customers.
• Leading a direct/indirect team to ensure that you have a safe work place, properly trained people, and that their needs are addressed so they can focus on their jobs.
• Support and assign job duties to process assistants.
• Due to the nature of Amazon’s business, being able to adapt to sudden changes and growth according to operational necessities.
• Communicate policies to Associates and act as the primary information source for the team, maintaining compliance, consistency, and taking corrective action when needed
• Create, manage, and support recognition and communication programs
• Ensure procedures are followed for building security and product loss prevention
• Partner with the management team to establish and maintain quality control standards
• Develop performance goals and objectives to achieve customer demand and ensure accuracy and quality

Key job responsibilities
· Lead, manage, and develop a team of Amazon Associates
· Communicate policies to Associates and act as the primary information source for the team, maintaining compliance, consistency, and taking corrective action when needed
· Create, manage, and support recognition and communication programs
· Support all safety programs and OSHA compliance to ensure a safe work environment for all Associates
· Ensure procedures are followed for building security and product loss prevention
· Partner with the management team to establish and maintain quality control standards
· Develop performance goals and objectives to achieve customer demand and ensure accuracy and quality

Job Elements
Must be able to perform the following tasks, with or without reasonable accommodation:
· Stand/walk for up to 10-12 hours
· Walk in/and around the warehouse with great frequency; many facilities are over a quarter mile in length
· Access all areas of building (ascending and descending ladders, stairs, and gangways safely and without limitation)
· Regularly bend, lift, stretch and reach both below the waist and above the head
· Lift and move items up to 49 pounds

Basic qualifications

- Work a rotating, flexible schedule, including nights, overnights, weekends and holidays. Able to work 40 hours/week, and overtime as required
- Work a flexible schedule including weekends, nights, and holidays
- high school diploma or bachelor's degree

Preferred qualifications

- Work 40 hours/week, and overtime as required

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How we rate this

Sort Center Area Manager Jr, Sort Center at Amazon rates 36 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.