Senior Engineer – Amazon Work From Home Jobs
Job Description
Job Type: Senior Engineer from home
Location: Arizona work from home
Company: Amazon
Responsibilities:
- Assume ownership of meeting project goals and objectives by working autonomously with internal and external teams to successfully manage the lifecycle of complex cross-functional projects and solutions. In support of business goals, lead and deliver concurrent initiatives that may span organizations or geographic locations.
- Actively take part in firm engineering evaluations, participate in decision-making, and have a real impact on solutions that are suggested for a single system or one of its components, on the overall system design, and on facility operations.
- Collaborate to identify project priorities, establish milestones, and drive schedules to fulfill deadlines with internal teams, stakeholders, and outside vendors. Assess dependencies and milestones for 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. Reduce complexity, improve efficiency, get rid of bottlenecks, and fix technological flaws.
- 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. Provide thorough answers to project-related queries and provide summaries of your work that are easy to understand for the leadership and management team.
- Effectively communicate system and/or equipment designs to partner teams and internal customers, including layouts, technical requirements, and functional capabilities.
- Effectively handle purchase orders, invoice approvals, and change order controls.
- Demonstrate superior relationship-building skills with internal and external stakeholders across a variety of projects.
- Encourage initiatives to enhance processes across teams. Enhance, streamline, and/or eliminate extraneous processes; establish standards; establish predictable process routes; and promote efficiency. Create high-quality, affordable solutions in a short amount of time through cooperation.
- Actively develop other Amazon Operations Engineers through mentoring.
- 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.
About the group
At Amazon, we all act as Owners and take use of the special opportunities that are offered to us by controlling all aspect of a project, from firm engineering to project completion to ultimate hand-off to customers. 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.
By recording lessons learnt and incorporating them into our processes, we want to continually enhance the upcoming design and process iterations.
Our organization is always learning, developing, and growing, and our subject matter expertise is used across the globe.
The Team is us! We work together to achieve the company’s goals by providing each other with support, assistance, and leverage.
Requirements:
BASIC REQUIREMENTS
- A bachelor’s degree in a STEM subject, such as mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, or another.
- 8+ years of experience working as a manufacturing engineer, process engineer, project manager, or in a similar field.
- Three or more years of expertise overseeing the execution of big, intricate, cross-functional projects, including the installation of automated machinery and/or integrated systems.
- Proven track record of managing initiatives, programs, or projects with continuously expanding scope and impact.
- Knowledge of CAD applications (such as 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.
- Technical leadership for significant industrial engineering projects or programs that has been shown.
