Operations Engineer, Robotics

About the position

As an Operations Engineer, you will lead and manage the lifecycle of challenging cross-functional projects, developing and delivering the next generation of automation and material handling solutions. You are a customer obsessed leader that will play an integral part in planning and implementation of the facility network infrastructure including new builds, retrofits, expansions and program initiatives. Partnering with internal customers and internal/external stakeholders to engage as a team and ensure a timely handover will be part of your critical tasks. As an Operations Engineer for Amazon, you will work with some of the most talented engineers in the design, development, and delivery of physical distribution systems around the globe. You are responsible for managing a technology or integration project, successfully delivering the solution to meet project goals. You may work directly with external equipment vendors, customers, or partners, and you have a solid understanding of the design approaches and industry technologies utilized in fulfillment and distribution center designs. To meet timelines and minimize disruption to support teams, you manage the overall schedule, proactively mitigate risks, and keep the scope of engineering deliverables under control.

Responsibilities

• Work independently with internal and external teams to successfully manage the lifecycle of challenging projects, and act as owner in delivering on project objectives and targets.
• Actively participate in firm engineering reviews, and make tangible impact on the proposed solutions on an individual system or its components, on the overall systems architecture, and on facility processes.
• Partner with internal teams, stakeholders and external vendors to set project priorities, establish milestones, and drive schedules to meet deadlines.
• Lead and coordinate all execution efforts in delivering systems and automated equipment designs per established standards and guidelines.
• Perform equipment/system installation, throughput and safety qualifications.
• Simplify, optimize, remove bottlenecks and provide feedback while resolving difficult system problems or technical deficiencies.
• Lead effective meetings by setting the objectives, putting the right people in the room and driving detailed business and technical discussions/alignment.
• Document meeting discussions, decisions and future steps, ensuring alignment on expectations with internal partner teams and outside vendors.
• Promptly and accurately communicate project status, risk analysis and risk mitigation plans.
• Effectively answer project questions in detail, and regularly produce clear and concise summaries for the project to leadership/management team.
• Competently articulate system and/or equipment designs, including layouts, technical specifications and functional capabilities to internal customers and partner teams.
• Support change order controls, purchase orders, and invoice validation/approvals.
• Excel at building strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders across multiple projects.
• Identify and lead process improvement initiatives that improve the Engineering and cross-teams' efficiencies, optimizing the teams' value and delivery.
• Travel 30% - 80% domestically although travel intensity can be variable and consist of up to three weeks in a row, including weekends.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or other STEM field
• 4+ years of experience as a Project Engineer, Process Engineer, Project Manager, Manufacturing Engineer, or related occupation
• Experience managing the lifecycle of cross-functional projects, implementing automated equipment and/or integrated systems
• 4+ years of experience working with the design and installation planning for complex automated material handling equipment, packaging technologies, and/or systems including robotics and high-speed manufacturing.
• 4+ years of product development experience noting leadership experience in design and assembly reviews.
• 4+ years demonstrated experience working with Project management tools (PPM, Clarity, Microsoft Project or Jira)
• 4+ years demonstrated experience working with 2D and 3D CAD/CAE modeling tools (SolidWorks, AutoCAD, or equivalent)
• Travel 30% - 80% domestically although travel intensity can be variable and consist of up to three weeks in a row, including weekends.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with new product introduction and/or implementation automation solutions, such as Conveyors, Sorters, high speed manufacturing and packaging lines, Robotic work cells.
• Proven technical leadership for industrial engineering projects or program.
• 4+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience.
• 4+ years of technical product or program management experience.
• 4+ years demonstrated familiarity with industrial controls (PLC programming, TCP/IP networking, vision systems, sensors and instrumentation, Fanuc ROBOGUIDE, ABB RobotStudio).
• 4+ years' experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership.
• 4+ years' experience in the broad scale implementation of reliability engineering and design for reliability best practices including the implementation of PFMEA/DFMEA frameworks.
• Lean Six Sigma experience and statistical proficiency equivalent to the Green Belt level.

Benefits

• Medical, financial, and/or other benefits
• Equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package