Data Center Logistics Specialist

**DESCRIPTION**:
AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. 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 — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.

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.

We are looking for Logistics Specialist to join our expanding Infrastructure Operations team Logistics Specialists reviews Data Center inventory, in-bound shipments, and ongoing demand to ensure that proper stock levels are maintained in the all locations to support build and repair activities.

If you would like to learn how to ensure overall availability and reliability of logistics need to meet or exceed defined service levels of data center operations, we’d like to meet you. Your work will to ensure overall availability and reliability to meet or exceed defined service levels of data center operations by being a part of operating the world’s largest cloud computing infrastructure.

Key job responsibilities
Logistics Specialists are expected to understand all aspects of production, adhere to strict safety standards, maintain very high quality, and be willing and able to work on powered equipment (i.e forklift or cherry picker).

Working with the Logistics Manager, they create plans to optimize the flow of parts through their lifecycle; tracking inventory location, movement, 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
Regular and ongoing communications with vendors to resolve issues and help them understand our business requirements necessitates a high-level communicator.
Support an environment that operates 24/7

A day in the life
Position works in-person at a site location
Assist in daily scheduling of deliveries and pick-ups
Adhere to safety and secuirty protocols for the site
Assist in loading and unloading shipments.
Work with and/or around moving mechanical parts
Requires standing, sitting, and walking for prolonged periods of time.
Manual handling and lifting of objects may be required (weight limits in accordance with regulations)
Regularly walk, 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

About the team
Diverse Experiences

Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

**BASIC QUALIFICATIONS**:

- Bachelors degree in logistics, engineering, supply chain or relevant studies
- Logistics experience with experience in shipping & receiving, inventory, material forecasting and warehousing practices.

**PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS**:

- Proficient with Tableau and SQL
- Knowledge of IT Industry Logistics would be an advantage
- Experience using metrics to perform analyses