Amazon

Senior Design Engineer, North America AMZL Design Engineering

Amazon$119K — $161K *
Real Estate & Construction
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years managing multiple large projects
  • 6+ years leading cross-functional teams through launch phases
  • Bachelor's degree in relevant field
  • Strong technical background in material handling equipment
  • 6+ years as industrial, operations, manufacturing, design, or project engineer in manufacturing

Responsibilities

  • Drive design and optimization of delivery stations
  • Provide expertise on engineering design and material flow
  • Achieve daily and weekly team goals
  • Collaborate with various teams on design projects
  • Contribute to culture of standardization with best practices
  • Lead benchmarks for continuous process and design improvement
  • Support quality control for accurate designs
  • Implement new design standards and safety processes

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance options
  • 401(k) matching program
  • Paid time off and parental leave
  • Access to mental health support and counseling
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
  • Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage
Full Job Description
We are looking for a Senior Design Engineer to join our North America AMZL Design Engineering Team who will support the expansion of AMZL's Delivery Station Network in North America (NA). In this role, the Senior Design Engineer will drive delivery station process, building design, and standardization across our Last Mile delivery network. As a member of the NA AMZL Design Engineering team, the individual will be responsible for designing and optimizing the delivery and sortation network, enabling operations processes to meet safety, customer experience, quality, and cost goals.

The Amazon Logistics (AMZL) Team is responsible for the acquisition, design, construction, and management of all facilities in the Amazon Delivery Station Network. We are looking for a Senior Design Engineer to join our North America AMZL Design Engineering Team to support the expansion of AMZL's Delivery Station Network in North America.

Key job responsibilities

- Responsible for building design, development, review and release for approval, deployment of new delivery stations and existing station capacity improvements and enhancements

- Provide process expertise on engineering design including material flow, labor placement, conveyors, equipment, operations modules, packaging profiles, physical building and site layout components

- Achieve the daily and weekly plan set in front of the Design engineers

- Collaborate with Design Managers, CAD drafters, Real Estate Transaction managers, World Wide Engineering (WWE), Pre-Construction and its Architects, material handling equipment suppliers, Launch and Start Up teams, Finance, Volume Planning, and Capacity Planning teams among others

- Contribute to network culture of standardization using best practice sharing with European (EU) and Worldwide (WW) counterparts, and incorporate into most up to date design practices

- Lead continuous process and design benchmark initiatives and conduct deep dive benchmark studies

- Support the Design quality control process that strives for accurate and zero-defect designs

- Responsible for implementation of new Design standards in collaboration with World Wide Design, Safety, Process Engineering, Material Handling Equipment, and Launch

- Responsible for new expansion, retrofit, process improvement initiatives and opportunities at the project level to support associate driver safety, quality, productivity, and the capacity increase for the delivery stations

- Implement solutions for recurring process issues and improvement projects within Design Engineering processes

- Collaborates with partner teams on their inputs, feedback, and best practices

- Implement new template designs, process improvements, safety processes, etc. into standard designs

- Implement mechanisms to increase scale, speed, and quality of designs within the team

- Facilitate cross-functional project specific reviews to collaborate on design solutions

**Travel up to 25%

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 6+ years of directly managing and being responsible for multiple large projects experience

- 6+ years of leading cross-functional teams across engineering, operations, and field execution through launch readiness and go-live phases experience

- Bachelor's degree

- Experience and strong technical background in relevant fields of automated or non-automated material handling equipment

- 6+ years of industrial engineer, operations engineer, manufacturing engineer, design engineer or project engineer in a manufacturing environment experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Master's degree or above in Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, or Business Administration, or Master's degree or above in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)

- Experience working as Design Engineer or Senior Design Engineer for physical infrastructure designs

- Knowledge of delivering successful Fulfillment, Distribution, Warehouse, or Delivery station designs

- Experience in design engineering and drafting tools such as AutoCAD, Bluebeam, MS Visio, Solidworks, etc.

- Process Engineering skills and Project Management skills

- Experience to build working relationships with business partners and key stakeholders, and the ability to work under pressure in a cross functional organization

- Knowledge of Excel (Pivot Tables, VLookUps) at an advanced level

- Experience to work in a fast-paced and rapidly-changing environment

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, WA, Bellevue - 119,600.00 - 161,700.00 USD annually

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Amazon Careers

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