Facilities Coordinator , Reliability Maintenance Engineering RME – Amazon

This Facilities Coordinator role sits inside Amazon’s Reliability Maintenance Engineering (RME) organization in Dubai, the team responsible for keeping the physical infrastructure and material handling equipment across an Amazon site running safely and without unplanned downtime. Where RME technicians handle the hands-on repair and preventive maintenance work, the coordinator role is the operational glue that keeps that work organized: scheduling coverage, tracking work orders, and making sure the right people, parts, and paperwork are in the right place at the right time.

Day to day, the job involves maintaining maintenance schedules and PPM (planned preventive maintenance) calendars, coordinating with external vendors and contractors who come on-site for specialized equipment work, tracking spare parts inventory and raising purchase requests before stock runs low, and keeping documentation current for internal audits and safety inspections. A meaningful part of the role is enforcing Amazon’s safety policy on-site — making sure permits, lockout-tagout procedures, and contractor inductions are followed correctly before any work begins.

It suits someone who is highly organized, comfortable juggling multiple moving parts at once, and not rattled by a fast-paced operations floor. You don’t need to be a qualified technician yourself, but a working familiarity with facilities, maintenance terminology, or warehouse operations makes the learning curve much shorter. Strong follow-through matters more than technical depth here — this is a role built around making sure nothing falls through the cracks.

It’s also a solid entry point into Amazon’s broader operations network in the UAE, which has been scaling its fulfillment and last-mile delivery footprint steadily. Coordinators who do this well tend to have a clear path toward RME specialist or operations management tracks over time.

A facilities coordinator has an outsized effect on uptime, and uptime is what everything else in a fulfillment or delivery operation depends on. When preventive maintenance is scheduled properly and parts are on hand before a breakdown happens, equipment failures get caught before they turn into stalled conveyor lines or blocked delivery pathways. When that coordination slips, even briefly, the cost shows up fast — missed dispatch windows, backed-up sortation, and technicians firefighting instead of doing planned work. This role is really about converting a maintenance plan on paper into something that actually happens on schedule, which is a quieter contribution than the frontline work but just as load-bearing. It also protects the business from compliance risk: properly logged permits, inspections, and safety sign-offs are what keep a site audit-ready and keep contractors working safely around live equipment. Done well, this job is invisible — nothing breaks unexpectedly, vendors show up when they're supposed to, and the RME team can focus on improving reliability instead of chasing logistics. That reliability, in turn, is what lets the site hit its throughput targets consistently.

This is a strong role for building a career inside large-scale operations, because it puts you at the center of how a complex facility actually runs — you see the maintenance side, the vendor management side, and the safety compliance side all at once, which is unusual for an early-to-mid career role. You'll build real fluency in maintenance planning systems, inventory and procurement processes, and the kind of cross-functional coordination that operations managers do at a larger scale, which makes this a natural stepping stone toward RME specialist, maintenance planner, or operations management tracks. Amazon's operations network is large and internally mobile, so strong performance in a coordinator role is frequently a launchpad rather than a ceiling — people move laterally into procurement, safety, or into people-management tracks within the same broader function. You'll also pick up transferable skills that matter well beyond Amazon: vendor negotiation basics, safety and compliance literacy, and the discipline of running a preventive maintenance program rather than a purely reactive one. For anyone aiming at a long-term career in facilities, supply chain, or operations management, this kind of coordination experience — seeing how planning, procurement, and frontline execution connect in a high-volume environment — is exactly the foundation employers in that space look for, and it translates cleanly to industries well outside e-commerce.

• Experience in a facilities, maintenance, or warehouse coordination role, ideally in a fast-paced operational environment
• Working knowledge of maintenance scheduling, work order systems, or CMMS tools
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to track multiple vendor and technician schedules simultaneously
• Familiarity with basic workplace safety practices (permits to work, lockout-tagout, contractor inductions)
• Comfortable with spreadsheets and inventory tracking for spare parts and consumables
• Clear written and verbal communication for coordinating across technicians, vendors, and site leadership
• Willingness to work on-site in an active fulfillment or delivery environment