Data Center Logistics Technician, DCC Communities
About the role
AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain. You'll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You'll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you'll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.
Responsibilities
- Review Data Center inventory, inbound shipments, and ongoing demand to ensure proper stock levels are maintained in all locations to support build and repair activities
- Create plans to optimize the flow of parts through their lifecycle; tracking inventory locations, movements, age, and turns
- Work closely with Data Center Operations Technicians and Data Center Engineers to fulfill parts quickly and accurately
- Work with Procurement and Hardware Engineering to purchase new parts and interface directly with vendors to process RMAs and receive replacements
- Engage in regular and ongoing communications with vendors to resolve issues and help them understand our business requirements
- Perform daily loading dock audits, receiving and stowing part deliveries, parts ingestion into a system of record, monitoring and prioritizing work using ticket requests, staging and performing parts transfers, maintaining RMA eligible material, and providing consistent customer service and communication on an as-needed basis
- Drive Safety and Security culture by remaining compliant with all policies and following best practices
- Perform data entry on a computer and resolve questions from peer organizations
- Ensure that all billing associated with the Inventory supply chain is accurate, validated and ready for processing
- Assemble, address, stamp and arrange for the shipment of merchandise and materials
- Assist in daily scheduling of deliveries and pick-ups to and from production locations
- Keep precise records of all commodities going in and out of company
- Understand all aspects of production, adhere to strict safety standards, maintain very high quality, and work on powered equipment (i.e forklift or cherry picker)
Basic Qualifications
- High School diploma or equivalent
- 2+ years of logistics experience
- 2+ years of shipping & receiving, inventory and warehousing practices experience
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with computer skills, including proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- WMS/IMS proficiency
- Familiar with using a computerized inventory system
- Familiar with waybills and shipping procedures with transport companies
Pay
USD $26.00 - $47.00 hourly. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location.
Benefits
Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
Schedule
Monday - Friday 8:00am to 4:30pm
Physical/Environmental Requirements
- Requires standing, sitting, and walking for prolonged periods of time
- Assist in loading and unloading shipments
- Occasionally exposed to cold or hot weather
- Work with and/or around moving mechanical parts
- Temperatures can vary between 60 and 90 degrees, and will occasionally exceed 90 degrees
- Must be able to lift loads of up to 39 pounds and carry them for short distances
- Continuously climb and descend stairs safely (applies to sites with stairs)
- Regularly walk, stand, use hands and fingers, handle or feel, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl
- Reach and stretch to position equipment and fixtures while maintaining balance
- Push or pull heavy objects into position