Amazon opened its virtual doors in 1995 and strives to be the world’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online. The goal of Amazon Logistics is to build a world class last mile operation. Amazon Logistics aims to exceed the expectations of our customers by ensuring that their orders, no matter how large or small, are delivered as quickly, accurately, and cost effectively as possible.
The European Amazon Logistics team is seeking an experienced, innovative, hands on and customer obsessed Process Engineer to drive standardization, integrating the latest technologies in our Delivery Stations and proposing new innovation initiatives.
As a member of the EU Amazon Logistics Engineering team you will be responsible for designing the new Delivery Stations, whilst also supporting process optimization and new technologies integration in the legacy sites, improving safety, customer experience, quality and cost. You will act as a key point of contact for your area of responsibility in the country you support; frequently partnering with local Operations teams as well as other operational support functions.
This position requires deep customer focus, strong self-motivation and exceptional project management skills. It will involve regular communication with customers and project sponsors at both the European and country level, and requires you to be detail-oriented and comfortable partnering across functional business and technical teams. To be successful in this role, you need to pair strong analytical skills and a data-driven outlook with strong design and innovation operations intuition.
This role will involve frequent domestic travel and you will report into the Manager of the Design Engineering team of the country that you will be supporting.
This job is located in the UK with up to 25% of time traveling domestically.
Key job responsibilities
• Drive new site designs and legacy site upgrade designs from planning to execution, including automation integration.
• Lead and drive technology integration and standardization in EU-wide programs and products, owning all layout integrations and optimizations in the assigned Delivery Stations.
• Contribute to network standardization via best practice sharing with EU counterparts.
• Provide process expertise on engineering design defining material flow, conveyor positioning, equipment requirements and real estate implications from process requirements
• Lead strategic initiatives and identify project opportunities to improve the processes and stations designs, engaging and influencing their key stakeholders.
A day in the life
Successful candidate will lead end to end design for new delivery stations and work to improve existing delivery station processes. You will work with multiple internal and external stakeholders, some of the internal stakeholder include operations, design and construction, launch and expansion, and safety.
You will produce best in class layouts for new launches, optimize the existing stations and present to leadership for approval. You will work on automation program to integrate new technologies into legacy stations.
You will lead projects to create mechanisms to improve the stations and come up with innovative solutions to the complex design issues.
About the team
What do we do?
Our team partners closely with AMZL Operations and support functions to identify, design and develop best-in-class process infrastructure and process layouts, and deliver them as EU AMZL network standards.
Mentorship & Career Growth:
We have a broad mix of experience levels and Amazon tenures, and we celebrate knowledge sharing and mentorship. We also care about your career growth, so we assign projects based on what will help each team member to continue the development.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience in planning, scheduling and auditing maintenance activities
- Experience working with CMMS software
- Experience in manufacturing, process, or industrial engineering
- Knowledge of project management tools
- Experience with Six Sigma, lean manufacturing
Preferred Qualifications:
- Knowledge of AutoCAD, VBA, and SQL at the intermediate level
- Experience working with and managing third party vendors
- MBA, or Master's degree in supply chain management, operations, engineering, analytics or related field
- Experience with data analysis (including advanced Excel and database analysis)
- Experience using one or more of the following CAD technologies: AutoCAD, Rhino, Revit, SolidWorks, CREO, BIM360, SketchUp or KeyShot
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