Area Manager 2025 – Connecticut (Recent and Upcoming Graduates)

This is not a corporate, remote or office-based position. This is a full-time, entry level position located within one of Amazon’s fulfillment centers, sort centers, delivery stations or other operations buildings. Amazon is seeking customer focused individuals to lead a team of hourly employees across our cutting-edge Operations network! Our warehouses are fast-paced environments where standing, walking, and having on-the-production floor conversations are common as a supply chain leader.As an Area Manager, you will be responsible for engaging, leading and developing your team in a warehouse environment. Your main focus will be motivating, mentoring, and managing your team to meet goals. Amazon provides extensive training and development to become an exceptional people leader. As a people manager, you will ensure that your team has all the tools needed to succeed and maintain the highest levels of safety, quality, attendance and performance at work. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $61,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $73,300/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.Benefits: Medical, financial, and/or other benefits (www.amazon.jobs/en/benefits)Visit www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/facilities to find more information on each of our building types. Please note we are not able to provide sponsorship now or in the future for these positions. Eligible candidates must have work authorization without employer intervention to be considered.This posting encompasses all openings in the state(s) listed in title. Site placement is determined by aligning your location preferences with location availability after your interview. Relocation benefits are offered at time of offer to eligible candidates.Key job responsibilities• Support, mentor and motivate 50-100 direct report Amazon Associates• Work independently and operate in an autonomous environment• Stand/walk during shifts lasting up to 12 hours• Willing and able to regularly work shift patterns that include nights, weekends, and/or holidays based on business needs. While shifts vary site to site, most follow a fixed 4-day work week with 3 days off.• Oversee truck deliveries, handle and sort packages using pallet jacks, operate PIT equipment (at applicable facilities) and step in as needed.• Work in an environment where the noise level varies• Lift up to 49 pounds and frequently push, pull, squat, bend and reach• Climb and descend stairs (when applicable)BASIC QUALIFICATIONS• A bachelor’s or master’s degree with all requirements completed between May 2023 and August 2025. (You must have all degree requirements met before your first day). ...

Injury Prevention Specialist

One focus area of the Amazon Workplace Health & Safety (WHS) mission is to provide tools, resources, and environments that support safe, efficient, healthy behaviors and encourage employees to proactively manage their health and wellbeing. To support this focus area, Amazon is seeking an experienced and innovative Injury Prevention Specialist to join our team. In this position, you will be a part of the onsite Workplace Health & Safety (WHS) Team and will lead both injury prevention and proactive activities. This position will work in an Amazon Fulfillment Center and report directly to the Site WHS Manager.The Injury Prevention Specialist (IPS) will be expected to proactively analyze tasks for potential ergonomic risk factors, perform biomechanical assessments and lead injury prevention activities. The IPS will champion proactive safety, job coaching, ergonomic training, and one-on-one engagements with Associates. The goal of the IPS is to improve technique prior to the onset of soreness or injury. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:Minimize the risk of ergonomic injury to employees through awareness, education and early interventionDive deep and learn each job function within the FC and understand the body ergonomic and physical demands of each task.Be actively involved with improvements to the standard work process, evaluating potential poor ergonomic conditions through change management processesEvaluate trends and provide analysis of all soft tissues injuries and develop actions plans to mitigate riskFrequent engagements with both associates and operational leadersSupport site leadership in implementation and management of Job Hazard Analysis (JHA) and Job Rotation policiesPartner with onsite medical team to implement treatment plans for first aid cases based on injury typeWill be required to maintain all first aid credentialsBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- Must be a Certified Athletic Trainer, by either the Board of Certification (BOC) or equivalent State Certification- Must have a valid card evidencing successful completion of a First Aid, CPR, and AED course from the American Heart Association or American Red Cross.- Bachelor’s Degree- Proficiency in Microsoft Office and digital recordkeeping ...

Site EHS Manager

One focus area of the Amazon Workplace Health & Safety (WHS) mission is to provide tools, resources, and environments that support safe, efficient, healthy behaviors and encourage employees to proactively manage their health and wellbeing. To support this focus area, Amazon is seeking an experienced and innovative Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) Manager to join our team. In this position, you will serve as the site’s designated first aid provider in the warehouse, coordinating and implementing the Amazon Global Program. The Site WHS Manager will be responsible for partnering with an Operations Team at the site level to execute company WHS policies and ensure compliance to all applicable local, regional and federal regulations. This individual will lead continuous improvement initiatives to reduce conditional and ergonomic risk in our processes to ensure a safe and healthful working environment for our associates. The Site WHS Manager must demonstrate the ability to build trust and confidence with the Operations Team and influence change through providing comprehensive risk assessments and WHS data analysis.The Site WHS Manager will be responsible to lead and develop a team of WHS professionals. This individual must create and execute leadership development plans for their teams. They must communicate team expectations and provide frequent feedback, and ensure the team is executing to the core competencies of an Amazon WHS professional. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:Provide guidance and oversight to ensure compliance to all applicable Amazon WHS Policies.Possess a thorough understanding of local/regional/domestic regulations and company policyLeads initiatives to reduce conditional and ergonomic risk in our processes to ensure a safe and healthful working environment for our associatesEstablishes high quality relationships with both site and regional leadershipMeasure site’s performance against published requirements in EHS policies. For all deficiencies, identify a plan for the site to implement and fix all identified deficiencies. Drive accountability for the planAnalyze WHS metrics and review incident trends to justify the allocation of appropriate resources to areas where the WHS risk is highest.Perform frequent site WHS audits to identify all non-compliance equipment and/or processes at the site. Implement solutions to eliminate exposure to these risks and prevent injury at other FC’sAudit recordkeeping practices and WHS Information System entries to ensure compliance to global WHS standards and local regulationsAudit the workplace organization and Associate behaviors to ensure that training, auditing and scoring methods are accurate and consistentEnsure site leadership and Associates are trained and knowledgeable of their responsibilities under each policy. Audit the quality, delivery (including qualifications of the trainer), and effectiveness of all required WHS training.Must be able to work flexible shifts which could include day, nights, and weekends.For those that do not have an adult First Aid, CPR, AED certification from the American Heart Association or American Red Cross, must obtain within 3 weeks of start date.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- Bachelor's degree- 5+ years of increasing responsibilities in EHS or environmental programs in manufacturing, production, or service operations experience- 5+ years of increasing responsibilities in people and performance management- Experience implementing lean principles and process improvement in an operational environment ...

Site Procurement Manager - Windsor, CT

As a Site Procurement Manager for the Amazon Fulfillment Center team, you will serve as the bridge between centralized Procurement and the building leadership. You will own the site’s indirect procurement operation responsibilities at a site level, including vendor management of 3rd party service providers, purchase order management, and inventory management. You will lead supplier management KPI and metrics reporting, and work with stakeholders to find and understand deviation and improvement areas. You will provide procurement leadership and align with the building leadership team to drive efficiencies and improvements at the site(s).• Provide procurement operations support for the fulfillment center, including supplier management (goods and services), non-inventory labor, flow, and space models, cycle counts, inventory management, and procurement transaction and expediting support. • Lead and develop team of non-Inventory associates to ensure building has adequate resources and is set up for success.• Develop deep knowledge of non-inventory items and align with like buildings to drive best practices• Manage and drive safety compliance for non-inventory teams during day-to-day activities and partner with regional/local safety teams for safety issues and escalations at the site level.• Manage KPI to measure, control and benchmark procurement processes including creation of recurring metrics reports to drive improvements for the Operations network• Develop relationship across the building and network to ensure best practices are being shared and implemented• Align with internal customers, Finance and Procurement Operations to understand budgetary targets by building and develop methods of measuring and defining savings, value and other category metrics• Assist Finance and internal customers to determine budgets and maintenance for blanket PO management.• Using input from the category team, build the category metrics model to track and monitor performance in relationship to the category strategy, such as supplier scorecard and other site audits on 3P services.• Measure actual vs planned savings; as savings trends are identified, own action plans to meet goals and develop solutions• Work in partnership both internally and with suppliers to develop innovative solutions to provide Procurement support to the Operations network• Develop and implement ways to measure suppliers to drive continuous performance improvement on behalf of Amazon• Coordinate the demand identification, procurement, and inventory management of all non-merchandise items required for building operation. This includes corrugate, packing materials, labor and janitorial services, etc.• Partner with AP, Suppliers and various internal teams to ensure timely resolution of vendor payment issues• Support the centralized Procurement team (iSChOC), and Global Procurement Organization (GPO) Pillars, including ProcOps, Category, Supplier Diversity, Supplier Management, Procurement Excellence, Reusables, Technology, and PMO.• Work is done in a warehouse environment that requires frequent walking around the building. You should feel comfortable working in an environment with varying temperatures as many buildings have dock doors that open throughout shifts.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- • 1+ years of Excel or Tableau (data manipulation, macros, charts and pivot tables) experience- • 1+ years of employee and performance management experience- • 3+ years of supply chain experience- • 3+ years of supply chain operations experience- • Bachelor's degree, or 2+ years of Amazon (blue badge/FTE) experience- • Experience with supplier or vendor relationship management ...