Key Takeaways
- Manage cross-functional engineering projects from conception to completion.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to drive project schedules and optimize processes.
- Requires students to apply, with a preference for a Bachelor's degree in relevant engineering fields.
About the Role
Amazon Operations is responsible for the entire customer experience, from purchase to delivery. We manage over 50 Fulfilment Centers, hundreds of Delivery Stations, and tens of thousands of employees across Europe.
Working in Amazon Operations means being active in a busy, dynamic environment as part of a team dedicated to meeting customer expectations. We foster an inclusive culture where individuality and diversity are valued. Our teams bond through a strong work ethic, ensuring smooth operations, prioritizing safety, and delivering the quality service Amazon is known for.
Join the Amazon Reliability Maintenance Engineering team, where you will maintain and optimize technologies within 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 will manage one or multiple projects, varying in scope, complexity, and duration. Daily tasks may include:
- Site coordination with operations teams and contractors on project execution and changes.
- Deep diving into project progress, schedules, and resources, identifying barriers, creating solutions, and driving resolutions.
- Facilitating planning and/or implementation meetings with project stakeholders to ensure alignment on objectives, expectations, and next steps.
- Capturing and publishing detailed meeting notes to drive ownership and follow-through on actions and decisions.
- Brainstorming and developing workaround solutions while mitigating project delays or design issues.
- Supporting and training other engineering team members, utilizing knowledge of Amazon’s safety, mechanical, electrical, and controls installation standards and guidelines.
Key competencies for this position include insisting on the highest standards to ensure contracted resources meet schedule, budgetary, safety, and quality targets; analyzing and deep diving systems' performance; and inventing and simplifying solutions for improved processes and results.
Basic Qualifications
- Currently a student.