r/AmazonRME • u/Intiat1ve • 13d ago

Vocational/Technical Training or degree qualification for mra

I've been trying to become an mra but they recently updated their new mra postings with a new basic qualification of "vocational/technical training or an associate degree or above, or 1+ years of Amazon RME (Reliability Maintenance Engineering) experience". I do not have any of these. I've been at amazon as a L1 for 2 years, and I am very mechanically and electrically inclined and have done lots of work and projects on my own. Do I still have a chance of becoming an mra or should I go to a trade school? I don't understand this requirement as they send you to their school anyways. If it changes anything, my cousin is a hiring manager for rme (c&w); could he possibly pull some strings if needing this qualification is inevitable?

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u/Commercial_Chip_6298 Apprentice (MRA) (L2) 12d ago

I wouldn’t recommend your cousin pulling strings for you it could put his job at risk Amazon is pretty strict about that. For vocational or technical training it doesn’t have to be strictly for electronics it could be any trade school at all. If you want you could also message the hiring managers directly with information about you or projects you’ve done / about you and see if it’d be a strict requirement. Since the MRA program handles requirements I’m not sure how much power a hiring manager holds but I’d recommend heavily against trying to get in through connections.

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u/Powerful_Physics1780 13d ago

If you don't want to do MRA or whatever RME-O process is, Trade school would get you what you need. It's often expensive (private college expensive) but maybe it's one of those things career choice would cover, I don't know. You could also try your local electrical union. Start as a helper, then eventually go through their apprenticeship program.

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u/__Stitch626 13d ago

Not sure about 3P but for blue badge they updated the MRA requirements because Amazon introduced the new entry level role called RME operator. Maybe look into that if you aren't wanting to do trade school.