Operations Engineer, GES NA Ops Engineering

Key job responsibilities

• Work independently with internal and external teams to successfully manage the lifecycle of challenging projects, and act as owner in delivering on project objectives and targets. Projects may span organizations or geographies in support of business objectives.
• Actively participate in firm engineering reviews, and make tangible impact on the proposed solutions on an individual system or its components, on the overall systems architecture, and on facility processes.
• Possess strong communication skills and ability to lead meetings by setting objectives, putting the right people in the room, and driving detailed business and technical discussions/alignment. Document meeting discussions, decisions, and future steps, ensuring alignment on expectations with internal partner teams and outside vendors.
• Promptly and accurately communicate project status, risk analysis, and risk mitigation plans. Effectively answer project questions in detail, and regularly produce clear and concise summaries for the project to leadership/management team.
• Competently articulate system and/or equipment designs, including layouts, technical specifications, and functional capabilities to internal customers and partner teams.
• Manage change order controls, purchase orders, and invoice validation/approvals efficiently.
• Build strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders across multiple projects.
• Identify and lead process improvement initiatives that improve the Engineering and cross-teams' efficiencies, optimizing the teams' value and delivery. Through collaboration, generate high-quality, cost-effective solutions in compressed periods of time.

A day in the life

• Manage one or multiple projects that can vary in scope, complexity, and duration.
• Facilitate planning and/or implementation meetings with projects’ stakeholders, ensuring alignment in objectives, expectations, and the next steps; capture and publish detailed notes after each meeting to drive ownership and follow-through on the actions and decisions.
• Review and approve Sorter System Functional specification documents, tracking the on-time creation of the sorter configurations with the internal automation teams.
• Brainstorm and develop workaround solutions while mitigating project delays or design issues.
• Support/train other engineering team members, utilizing knowledge of Amazon’s safety, mechanical, electrical, and controls installation standards and guidelines.

About the team

The OE Execution Team is responsible for delivery of Automation Infrastructure projects related to material handling, storage, processing, and delivery of products to retrofits and newbuilds throughout First and Middle Miles across all regions within North America.

At Amazon, we are all Owners and leverage unique opportunities presented to us by owning everything from firm engineering to project execution and final hand-off to our customers. We are a diverse, upbeat, creative team of engineers and managers working on a daily basis to ensure that our internal customers have capabilities to deliver on the Customer Promise. We not only build, but we are also consistently improving our capabilities at Amazon. Continuous improvement is the ongoing enhancement of our systems through incremental and breakthrough developments. We are continually raising the quality bar, and are never satisfied. We seek to improve through captured lessons learned that are incorporated back into our mechanisms as a way to perpetually improve upon the next design and processes iterations. We continually learn, grow, and develop throughout the organization and our Subject Matter Expertise is leveraged globally. We are the Team! We collaborate, support, help, and leverage each other in delivering on the business objectives.