Full Time

Operations Engineer – Amazon Remote Jobs

Posted 1 year ago
Ohio
$30 - $60 per hour

Job Description

Job Type: Operations Engineer from home
Location: Ohio 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. Conduct throughput, safety certifications, and equipment/systems installation. In 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.
Everyday 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 facilitating 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 actions. 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. Using your understanding of Amazon’s safety, mechanical, electrical, and controls installation standards and guidelines, you may also be assisting/training other engineering team members.

About the group

  • At Amazon, we all act as Owners and take use of the special opportunities that are offered to us by taking full responsibility for every step of the project, from project execution through final customer hand-off. We are a team of engineers and managers who are varied, enthusiastic, and creative. We work hard every day to make sure that our internal customers are equipped to fulfill the Customer Promise.
  • At Amazon, we don’t just create; we also constantly enhance our skills. The constant improvement of our system designs through both incremental and ground-breaking advancements is known as continuous improvement. We are never satisfied and are always increasing the bar on quality.
  • In order to continuously improve the subsequent design and process iterations, we want to continuously improve through lessons learned that are recorded and implemented back into our procedures.
  • Our organization is always learning, developing, and growing, and our subject matter expertise is used across the globe.
  • The Team is us! In order to accomplish the business objectives, we work together, assist one another, and leverage one another.

Requirements:

BASIC REQUIREMENTS

  • Undergraduate degree

FAVORABLE QUALIFICATIONS

  • PMP Certification with a Masters Degree

Amazon is dedicated to creating an inclusive and diverse workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against applicants or employees based on their race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, handicap, age, or any other legally protected status.

Our pay is in line with the cost of labor in different US regions. In our lowest geographic area, the basic salary for this position is $61,300 per year, while in our top geographic market, it is $126,400 per year. Compensation is based on a number of variables, including market location, and may change in accordance with knowledge, abilities, and experience pertinent to the position. Amazon is a corporation that offers entire rewards. In addition to a broad array of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, the position offered may also include equity, sign-on payments, and other kinds of remuneration as part of the entire compensation package.