Senior Innovation and Design Engineer, Worldwide Design and Engineering

Senior Innovation and Design Engineer, Worldwide Design and Engineering

DESCRIPTION

Are you an Innovative Engineer that wants to design the next generation of world-class fulfillment centers and logistics systems across the globe? Do you want a high level of ownership in solving complex problems? Does the idea of designing Intralogistics systems that leverage ground breaking automated Material Handling Equipment, packaging technologies and robotics appeal to you? If so, we have the job for you!

We're looking to add a high-impact engineer to our team in Europe / United Kingdom. A successful candidate will have an established background in creating high-performance physical systems, a strong technical problem-solving ability, excellent project management skills, and an internal motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced, and often ambiguous environment. In this role, you will partner with internal and external teams to design high quality, cost effective solutions for our fulfillment and distribution systems. You will own multiple projects simultaneously, from concept realization through design approval. You will be our suppliers' primary point of technical contact for your projects. Then, once the design is completed and approved, you will hand-off the project to our Ops Engineering team who will oversee the installation and commissioning of the project. You'll continue working with that team to ensure that the system you've designed is successfully installed, commissioned and launched.

Your projects will include green-fields, brown-fields, and retrofits. Our team designs fulfillment centers, cross-dock facilities, specialty facilities (ex. reverse logistics, hazmat) and ground and air transportation centers throughout North America and Europe. Your projects will be a variety of template-based and designed-from-scratch.

Key job responsibilities

1. Invent, design, and implement engineering solutions to complex material flow/transformation and human/machine efficiency problems throughout the global Amazon supply chain.
2. Lead and coordinate design and innovation efforts to develop optimal solutions for the fulfillment and transportation network through equipment specification, material flow, process design, site layout, and intellectual property considerations.
3. Collaboration with internal teams and external vendors to generate high-quality, cost-effective solutions in very short periods of time.
4. Simultaneously manage multiple projects and tasks while effectively influencing, negotiating, and communicating with internal and external business partners, contractors and vendors.
5. Provide technical leadership for large-scale engineering projects.
6. Effectively communicate the vision, detailed roadmap, and specific technical solutions to make a compelling business case with senior executives.

1. Bachelor's degree in Engineering (any discipline) or foreign equivalent or a related field.
2. Experience in Design/Innovation Engineering, Manufacturing/Process/Industrial Engineering, or related.
3. Experience must involve ownership/management of engineering design projects.
4. Proficiency using business/technical software like MS Excel, MS Project, and CAD software.
5. Ability to travel 20% globally.

1. Master's degree in Engineering (any discipline) or foreign equivalent, Operations, Business Administration, or a related field and at least five years experience in the Material Handling Intralogistics industry.
2. Experience with complex automated material handling equipment, packaging technologies, robotics and/or high-speed manufacturing.
3. Experience with process design and based on Lean Principles.
4. Proficiency with concepts like system architecture, optimization, system dynamics, and using statistics and data to solve problems.
5. Design-in-Safety experience.

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon.