Transportation Area Manager
Fort Myers, FLJob$65–75K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
The Transportation Area Manager leads a team of Transportation Associates and oversees safety, quality, customer experience, and productivity. The role collaborates with site leadership on metrics and root-cause analysis, streamlines logistics through standard work and team leadership, supports safety programs and OSHA compliance, and leads process-improvement initiatives. The manager trains, supports, mentors, and motivates hourly employees while managing delivery promises and operational change.
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Description
At Amazon, we’re working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and dependable people. Amazon is seeking Transportation Area Managers to work throughout the country. Amazon is one of the most recognizable brand names in the world and we distribute over a billion shipments each year to our loyal customers.
Four key areas that you’ll always focus on are the safety, quality, customer experience, and productivity of your department. Key responsibilities include:
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Collaborate with site leadership on quality and Customer Experience metrics, including the root cause analysis of problem areas
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Streamline logistics in the operation through the implementation of standard work and team leadership
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Support and commit to all safety programs and OSHA compliance to ensure a safe work environment for all associates
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Proactively identify and lead process improvement initiatives and Lean tools
Supervisory Responsibilities:
You and your team of Transportation Associates are responsible for Amazon customers receiving their orders. You are responsible for ensuring that you have properly trained people, and that their needs are addressed so they can focus on their jobs. Support, mentor, and motivate your hourly workforce. Manage safety, quality, productivity, and customer delivery promises. In addition, one of the most important aspects of your job is to lead change at internet speed because innovation has made us the global company that we are today.
Amazon offers competitive packages, growth potential and a challenging and inclusive work environment.
Please review the Field Ops Transfer Policy on Inside to ensure you are eligible to apply for this role. https://inside.hr.amazon.dev/us/en/employment/policies-global/l4-l7-field-ops-transfer.html
About the team
Please review the: https://inside.hr.amazon.dev/us/en/employment/policies-global/l4-l7-field-ops-transfer.html " on Inside to ensure you are eligible to apply for this role.
Internal candidates applying to Manager I, Operations roles may be asked to complete the Manager of Hourly Associates (AA:MHA) online assessment as part of the evaluation process. To help you prepare, assessment preparation guides are available that explain what to expect and how to best prepare. Please visit https://inside.hr.amazon.dev/content/dam/inside/language-master/employment/your-career/MHA%20Candidate%20Prep%20Materials%20-%20November%202025.pdf
Basic Qualifications
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1+ years of employee and performance management experience
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Bachelor's degree or equivalent, or 2+ years of Amazon (blue badge/FTE) experience
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Work a flexible schedule/shift/work area, including weekends, nights, and/or holidays
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Can push and pull wheeled dollies loaded with products up to 100 pounds during shifts
Preferred Qualifications
- 1+ years of performance metrics, process improvement or lean techniques experience
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. 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. Amazon also 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. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .
USA, FL, FORT MYERS - 65,200.00 - 75,000.00 USD annually
How this job compares
Set against the 3,938 open Operations Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$65–75K/yr
- Florida median$101–155K/yr58 salary ranges
- US median$105–150K/yr2,216 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $70K, is 42% below the Florida median midpoint ($121K) — in the lowest quarter of Operations Management salary ranges in Florida.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 158 open Operations Management jobs in Florida and 3,938 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Florida
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- Amazon (this employer)6 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Operations Management postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 2,934 postings).
- Education
- 840 of the 3,938 open Operations Management jobs (21%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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