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. Proactively assess stakeholders’ dependencies and milestones, problem-solve and drive solutions to mitigate the impact from the issues.
Lead and coordinate all execution efforts in delivering systems and automated equipment designs per established standards and guidelines. Perform equipment/systems 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 meetings 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 projects to leadership/management team.
Competently articulate system and/or equipment designs, including layouts, technical specifications and functional capabilities, to internal customers and partner teams.
Efficiently manage 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. Through collaboration, generate high-quality, cost-effective solutions in compressed periods of time.
Travel up to 80% domestically although travel intensity can be variable and consist of up to three weeks in a row, including weekends.
A day in the life
A day in the life
You are managing quality of implementation through multiple projects that can vary in scope, complexity and duration.
Daily tasks may comprise of site coordination with operations teams and contractors on project execution activities or changes; deep diving project progress, schedule and resources, while identifying barriers, creating solutions and driving resolutions. You may be facilitating the planning and/or implementation meetings with projects’ stakeholders, ensuring alignment in objectives, expectations, and the next steps; you would capture and publish detailed notes after each meeting to drive ownership and follow-through on the actions and decisions.
Reviewing/approving audit mechanisms and documentation is one of the essential tasks, and you may be tracking the programmatic week on week installation opportunities with the internal automation teams. You may be brainstorming and developing workaround solutions while mitigating the project delays or design issues. As a part of the acceptance testing you may be performing systems installation quality, safety, throughput and performance qualifications, frequently communicating the progress to internal and external stakeholders.
In addition, you may be supporting/training other engineering team members, utilizing the knowledge of Amazon’s safety, mechanical, electrical and controls installation standard and guidelines.
About the team
About the team
At Amazon, we are all Owners and leverage unique opportunities presented to us by owning everything
from firm engineering to project execution and final hand-off to our customers. We are a diverse,
upbeat, creative team of engineers and managers working on a daily basis to ensure that our internal
customers have capabilities to deliver on the Customer Promise.
We not only build, but we are also consistently improving our capabilities at Amazon. Continuous
improvement is the ongoing enhancement of our systems designs, through incremental and
breakthrough developments. We are continually raising the quality bar, and are never satisfied.
We seek to improve through captured lessons learned, that are incorporated back into our mechanisms
as a way to perpetually improve upon the next design and processes iterations.
We continually learn, grow and develop throughout the organization and our Subject Matter Expertise is
leveraged globally.
We are the Team! We collaborate, support, help and leverage each other in delivering on the business
objectives.
Bachelor's degree or above in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or other STEM field
Experience using Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and analytical platforms, including but not limited to the ability to analyze data using pivots and V-Lookups
Experience leading complex programs with significant change impact across organizational boundaries
Experience in Data and metrics analysis, lean engineering, and industrial engineering techniques.
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, or experience in project management
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, IL, Chicago - 60,700.00 - 85,000.00 USD annually
