Operations Engineer – Amazon Jobs
Job Description
Job Type: Operations Engineer from home
Location: Georgia work from home
Company: Amazon
One of the most advanced supply chains in the world was developed by Amazon. Amazon continuously leads change from the front of the pack, whether it’s through the introduction of Amazon Prime or the employment of cutting-edge technology for package delivery.
As a Transportation Engineering Services (TES) Operations Engineer, you will create and deploy the newest sortation and distribution solutions while leading and managing the lifespan of difficult cross-functional projects. You will be a key player in the development and execution of the facility network infrastructure, including new builds, retrofits, expansions, and program initiatives. You are a customer-obsessed leader. Your important activities will include collaborating with internal customers and internal/external stakeholders to engage as a team and achieve a timely handover.
Insisting on the highest standards, ensuring that contracted resources meet schedule, budgetary, safety, and quality targets; examining and delving deeply into the performance of systems, inventing and streamlining solutions that allow for improved processes and results; and offering technical expertise to internal customers and stakeholders are some of the key competencies of this position.
Responsibilities:
To successfully manage the lifespan of tough projects, work autonomously with internal and external teams, and take ownership of meeting goals and objectives. In order to serve corporate goals, projects may cut across organizations or geographic boundaries.
- Actively participate in firm engineering evaluations and have a real impact on facility procedures, system design as a whole, and proposed solutions for individual systems or their parts.
- Collaborate to identify project priorities, establish milestones, and drive schedules to fulfill deadlines with internal teams, stakeholders, and outside vendors. Assess the dependencies and milestones of the stakeholders proactively, fix problems, and drive solutions to lessen the effect of the problems.
- Take the initiative and oversee all execution procedures for delivering system and automated equipment designs in accordance with accepted norms and regulations. Perform throughput, safety certifications, and equipment/systems installation. While resolving challenging system issues or technical shortcomings, simplify, optimize, remove bottlenecks, and provide feedback.
- To facilitate productive meetings, define clear goals, invite the appropriate individuals, and coordinate in-depth business and technical talks. In order to ensure that expectations with internal partner teams and external vendors are aligned, meetings, conversations, and future steps should be documented.
- Communicate project status, risk assessments, and risk mitigation strategies as soon as possible and accurately. Clearly and succinctly respond to queries about the project in detail and routinely produce summaries for the leadership/management team.
- Effectively communicate system and/or equipment designs to partner teams and internal customers, including layouts, technical requirements, and functional capabilities.
- Perform very well at establishing trusting working relationships with internal and external stakeholders across a variety of projects; efficiently manage change order controls, purchase orders, and invoice validation/approvals.
- Identify and take the lead on process improvement projects that boost the engineering and cross-teams’ productivity, maximizing the value and output of the teams. Create high-quality, affordable solutions in a short amount of time through cooperation.
- Up to 80% of travel is within the country, while the amount of time spent traveling can vary and can last up to three weeks straight, weekends included.
What a day looks like
You are in charge of one or more projects, each with its own unique scope, level of difficulty, and time frame.
Daily duties could include site collaboration with operations teams and contractors on project execution activities or adjustments; in-depth analysis of project status, schedule, and resources; and identification of obstacles, development of workarounds, and promotion of resolutions. To ensure that the objectives, expectations, and next steps are aligned, you might be leading planning and/or implementation meetings with the project’s stakeholders. You would record and publish thorough notes following each meeting to encourage ownership and execution of the decisions and activities. Sorter System review and approval One of the crucial duties is creating the functional specification document, and you may be monitoring the internal automation teams’ timely production of the sorter settings. While addressing the project delays or design flaws, you can be building workaround solutions and thinking new ones. You can carry out system installation quality, safety, throughput, and performance criteria as part of the acceptance testing, regularly updating internal and external stakeholders on your progress. Utilizing your understanding of Amazon’s safety, mechanical, electrical, and controls installation standards and guidelines, you may also be assisting/training other engineering team members.
Requirements:
BASIC REQUIREMENTS
- A bachelor’s degree in a STEM subject, such as mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, or another.
- Three or more years of experience working as a manufacturing engineer, project engineer, process engineer, or in a similar field.
- Proven track record of managing initiatives, programs, or projects with continuously expanding scope and impact.
- Expertise in implementing automated machinery and/or integrated systems, and managing the lifespan of cross-functional projects.
- Knowledge of CAD software (AutoCAD, REVIT, BIM 360, etc.).
- FAVORABLE QUALIFICATIONS
- A master’s degree in a STEM-related subject, such as engineering, operations, business administration, or a related profession.
- Operations control/Distribution Center experience in which material handling, automation, or other technological projects were under direct control or accountability.
- Six Sigma and/or Lean Manufacturing expertise.
- Proven proficiency with Microsoft Project and Smartsheet.
- Expertise in the design and/or implementation of automation solutions, such as robotic work cells, conveyors, sorters, and high-speed production and packaging lines.
- Proven technical leadership for programs or projects in industrial engineering.