Graduate Engineering Manager

Amazon Operations engineering role managing automated equipment and systems projects, coordinating installations, schedules, budgets, safety requirements and process improvements across warehouse and delivery operations.

Description

Amazon Operations sits at the heart of the Amazon customer experience. We look after everything from the moment a customer clicks buy, to the moment their item is delivered – from desktop to doorstep.

Across Europe we have more than 50 Fulfilment Centers, hundreds of Delivery Stations, thousands of machines, and tens of thousands of employees, all working together in harmony to make sure the right item gets delivered to the right person, in the right place, at the right time.

Working in Amazon Operations is for people who like to be active and give their all. We work in a busy, dynamic environment and are part of a bigger team delivering on the expectations of millions of customers every single day.

We are open, inclusive and welcome individuality and diversity. The culture in our Operation is built on the way teams’ bond and the work ethic that enables our business run like clockwork. Our teams take pride in a job well done, looking out for one another, ensuring the highest safety standards and playing their part in delivering the quality service Amazon is known for around the world. Join us in the Amazon Reliability Maintenance Engineering team. We maintain and optimize technologies in the Global Amazon Warehouse & Delivery Network.

Key job responsibilities

• Manage cross-functional project lifecycles across organizations and geographies, ensuring delivery of objectives and targets

• Actively participate in engineering reviews, contributing to and improving proposed solutions for systems and components

• Collaborate with stakeholders to set priorities, establish milestones, and drive schedules, proactively addressing dependencies and mitigating issues

• Lead execution of systems and automated equipment designs, overseeing installation, throughput, and safety qualifications while optimizing processes

• Conduct effective meetings, ensuring proper documentation of discussions, decisions, and action items

• Provide timely and accurate project status updates, risk analyses, and mitigation plans to leadership

• Clearly articulate system and equipment designs, including technical specifications and capabilities, to internal and external partners

• Efficiently manage change order controls, purchase orders, and invoice approvals

• Develop and maintain strong working relationships across multiple projects and stakeholders

• Identify and spearhead process improvement initiatives to enhance project efficiency and value delivery
  

A day in the life
You are managing one or 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. You may be brainstorming and developing workaround solutions while mitigating the project delays or design issues.

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. Key competencies of this position include insisting on the highest standards ensuring that contracted resources meet schedule, budgetary, safety and quality targets; analyzing and deep diving systems’ performance, inventing and simplifying solutions that allow for improved processes and results; and

Preferred Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Technology, or Reliability Engineering

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.