Project Engineer, Engineering, Planning and Solutions

As a Transportation Engineering Services (TES) Project Engineer within Engineering, Planning, and Solutions (EPS), you will lead and manage a program involving the development of design and integral standards for all conveyance, automated sorters, and parcel handling equipment throughout North America’s Amazon Transportation Services (ATS) network. As part of the middle mile engineering team, you will work primarily with bulk and singulated parcel handling equipment, and manage contracted partners to consistently deliver the next generation of sortation and distribution solutions. You will manage programs that include new builds, retrofits of existing facilities, and expansion of existing facilities. In addition to design, you will oversee multiple project timelines at any given time, multi-million dollar budgets, and supply chain to ensure high quality systems are delivered on-time to meet growing customer demand. You will be tasked with supporting field projects by traveling to sites. Furthermore, you will be involved with forming solutions to tackle challenging and complex problems by leading, from beginning to end, initiatives that drive improvements on a network level. In doing so, you will develop business cases and work with various stakeholders to incorporate new elements into designs for multiple systems to improve maintenance, safety, and performance of Amazon’s new and existing systems.

Key competencies of this position include understanding of mechanical, electrical, and controls framework for parcel handling equipment, ability to navigate 2D layouts and 3D models, fluency in English, strong written and verbal communication skills, ability to organize and lead multi-stakeholder meetings, and ability to quickly tackle ambiguous problems with limited information.


A day in the life
• Lead and coordinate design development and firm engineering (FE) efforts that deliver solutions to complex material handling challenges for the North American Sort Center network. Design development will span multiple trades including mechanical, electrical, and controls.
• Develop, document and update material handling equipment (MHE) system design standards in coordination with World Wide Design Engineering (WWDE).
• Work independently with internal and external engineering teams to successfully manage the lifecycle of the cross-functional projects, and deliver on their objectives and targets. Projects may span organizations or geographies in support of business objectives.
• Partner with internal teams, stakeholders and external vendors to set program priorities, establish milestones, and drive schedules to meet deadlines. Proactively assess stakeholders’ dependencies and milestones, and drive the solutions to mitigate the impact from issues that may arise.
• Lead multiple project handoff efforts to execution teams and provide support during execution phases of your projects as needed.
• Lead effective meetings by setting objectives, putting the right people in the room and driving detailed business and technical discussions. Document meetings, discussions, decisions and future steps that ensure alignment on expectations with internal partner teams and outside vendors.
• Promptly and accurately communicate program status, effectively answer design and layout questions in detail, and regularly produce clear and concise program updates to stakeholders.
• Competently articulate system and equipment designs, including layouts, technical specifications and functional capabilities, to internal customers and partner teams.
• Effectively manage scope changes and any associated implications to pricing or timelines.
• 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 30% domestically & internationally.


About the team
At Amazon, we are all owners and leverage unique opportunities presented to us by owning everything from the design review to project execution and final hand-off to our customers. We are a diverse, upbeat, and creative team of engineers working on a daily basis to ensure 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 at the core of our organization. With constant enhancements of our system designs, and 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 future projects as a continuous feedback loop. We relentlessly aim to learn, grow and develop throughout the organization and our Subject Matter Expertise is leveraged on a global scale.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, or other STEM field.
• 2+ years of experience as a project engineer, process engineer, project manager, manufacturing engineer, or related occupation.
• Understanding of how parcel handling equipment runs and are put together mechanically or electrically, or programmed through controls.
• Experience with leading programs or initiatives with continually increasing scope and impact.
• Experience managing the lifecycle of cross-functional projects, implementing automated equipment and/or integrated systems.
• Experience with CAD software (AutoCAD, Navisworks, BIM 360, etc.).
• Experience with Microsoft Office suite (i.e. Excel, Outlook, OneNote, etc.).
• Proficiency with AutoCAD, BIM360, and 3D simulation software (i.e. FlexSim, Emulate 3D, etc.).
• Experience with PLC/HMI programming (i.e. Rockwell Automation’s Studio 5000, Rockwell Automation’s PanelView, Inductive Automation’s Ignition software).
• Operations Management/Distribution Center experience with direct management or responsibility for material handling, automation, or other technical projects.
• Experience with design and/or implementation of automation solutions, such as conveyors, sorters, high speed manufacturing and packaging lines, robotic work cells.
• Experience with sustainability initiatives that include reduction in energy consumption, material waste, or emissions.



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