Design Engineer, North America AMZL Design Engineering

About the role

Amazon operates a world-class network of delivery stations across the globe. The LastMile organization is responsible for the acquisition, design, construction, and management of all facilities in the Amazon Delivery Station Network. We are looking for a Design Engineer to join our North America LastMile Design Team who will support the expansion of Amazon Logistics (AMZL) Delivery Station Network in North America (NA).

Responsibilities

• Builds design, development, review and release for approval, deployment of new delivery stations and existing station capacity improvements and enhancements.
• Provides process expertise on engineering design including material flow, labor placement, conveyors, equipment, operations modules, packaging profiles, physical building and site layout components.
• Achieves the daily and weekly plan set in front of the Design Engineers.
• Collaborates with Design Managers, CAD drafters, Real Estate Transaction managers, Worldwide Engineering (WWE), Pre-Construction and its architects, material handling equipment suppliers, Launch and Start Up teams, Finance, Volume Planning, and Capacity Planning teams among others.
• Contributes to network culture of standardization using best practice sharing with European (EU) and Worldwide (WW) counterparts, and incorporates into most up to date design practices.
• Leads continuous process and design benchmark initiatives and conducts deep dive benchmark studies.
• Supports the Design quality control process that strives for accurate and zero-defect designs.
• Responsible for implementation of new Design standards in collaboration with Worldwide Design, Safety, Process Engineering, Material Handling Equipment, and Launch.
• Responsible for new expansion, retrofit, process improvement initiatives and opportunities at the project level to support associate driver safety, quality, productivity, and the capacity increase for the delivery stations.
• Responsible for implementing solutions for recurring process issues and improvement projects within Design Engineering processes.
• Collaborates with partner teams on their inputs, feedback, and best practices.
• Implements new template building designs, process improvements, safety processes, etc. into standard designs.
• Implements mechanisms to increase scale, speed, and quality of designs within the team.
• Facilitates cross-functional project specific reviews to collaborate on design solutions.
• Travel up to 25% to support complex designs with quick, simple, and standard solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in industrial or manufacturing engineering
• 5+ years of industrial engineer, operations engineer, manufacturing engineer, or project engineer in a manufacturing environment experience
• Knowledge of automated material handling systems, packaging technologies and storage solutions
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office products and applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Visio, and MS Project) at an advanced level