Amazon - Nashville, TN
posted 3 months ago
As a Sr. Operations Engineer at Amazon, you will take on a pivotal role in leading and managing the lifecycle of complex cross-functional projects aimed at developing and delivering cutting-edge automation and material handling solutions. Your focus will be on ensuring that the facility network infrastructure is effectively planned and implemented, which includes overseeing new builds, retrofits, expansions, and various program initiatives. You will be a customer-obsessed leader, working closely with internal customers and both internal and external stakeholders to foster collaboration and ensure timely project handovers. In this position, you will collaborate with some of the most talented engineers in the industry, contributing to the design, development, and delivery of physical distribution systems on a global scale. Your responsibilities will include managing technology or integration projects, ensuring that solutions are delivered successfully to meet project goals. You will engage directly with external equipment vendors, customers, and partners, leveraging your solid understanding of design approaches and industry technologies utilized in fulfillment and distribution center designs. To ensure that project timelines are met and disruptions to support teams are minimized, you will manage the overall project schedule, proactively mitigate risks, and maintain control over the scope of engineering deliverables. Your role will also involve leading effective meetings, documenting discussions and decisions, and communicating project status, risk analysis, and mitigation plans to leadership and management teams. You will be expected to build strong working relationships with stakeholders across multiple projects and identify process improvement initiatives that enhance engineering efficiencies and optimize team delivery.