ELM Operations Engineer, ELM Program Launch

About the role

Amazon is looking for recent, high-potential college graduates who are ready to do what it takes to be successful in the Operations field. We promise you will have your leadership capacity stretched to its full potential.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of Amazon Associates
• Communicate policies to Associates and act as the primary information source for the team, maintaining compliance and consistency and taking corrective action when needed
• Develop performance goals and objectives to achieve customer promise expectations and ensure accuracy and quality
• Support all safety programs and OSHA compliance to ensure a safe work environment for all Associates
• Create, manage and support recognition and communication programs
• Partner with the management team to establish and maintain quality control standards

Key job responsibilities

• Execute site-level launch delivery
• Maintain and drive project trackers
• Provide status updates and escalate risks
• Career development
• Track and report on launch readiness metrics
• Support post-launch reviews

Job Elements

• Lift and move totes up to 49 pounds each
• Regular bending, lifting, stretching and reaching both below the waist and above the head
• Walking in the building and around area with great frequency; facilities are over a quarter mile in length
• Able to access all areas of building (ascending and descending ladders, stairs, gangways safely and without limitation)

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of industrial engineer, operations engineer, manufacturing engineer, or project engineer in a manufacturing environment experience
• 3+ years of maintenance or engineering experience
• 3+ years of refrigeration industry experience
• Bachelor's degree
• Work a flexible schedule including weekends, nights, and holidays
• Experience in material handling equipment (MHE) or automation environments, or experience in reliability/maintenance environments

Preferred Qualifications

• 1+ years of commercial CO2 refrigeration applications experience
• Refrigeration Trade School certificate
• Knowledge of AutoCAD, VBA, and SQL at the intermediate level
• Knowledge of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) programs for commercial refrigeration systems
• Knowledge of performance metrics such as OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness), downtime, throughput, or quality
• Experience working with and managing third party vendors
• Experience with Six Sigma, lean manufacturing
• Experience with Six Sigma tools and Lean techniques
• Experience communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences
• Experience in Amazon RME (Reliability Maintenance Engineering) or fulfillment operations, or experience in similar environments
• Experience with retrofits, launches, or automation deployments
• Experience building launch readiness frameworks, standard work, playbooks, and scalable deployment mechanisms across multiple concurrent sites