Project Engineer, Ops Engineering, Transportation

Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or other STEM field.
- Experience as a project engineer, process engineer, project manager, manufacturing engineer, or related occupation.
- Proven technical leadership for large-scale industrial engineering projects (greater than $15MM).
- Design and/or implementation experience with integrated automation solutions, such as material handling systems, high-speed packaging lines, or manufacturing lines.
- Experience with Microsoft Office products: Excel, Project and Outlook.
- Familiar with navigation on 3D cad models.
- Ability to travel up to 60% of time to installation sites throughout Europe.

Job summary

Our Project Engineers should be agile with the ability to quickly adapt strategies, plans and solutions in response to dynamic business requirements. They also should be comfortable interfacing and coordinating various functional teams and team members at all levels of the organization in different locations. Open minds, customer focus, excellent communication skills, personal motivation, and occasional senses of humour enable our Operations Engineering team to deliver the most advance sortation solutions in the world.
If you have proven integrated automation project engineering experience and thrive on the corresponding issues, enjoy traveling and interfacing with multiple stakeholders on a diverse environment, seek an opportunity for professional growth, then this role is for you

Key job responsibilities
- Manage medium scope integrated automation projects with system elements such as high speed sortation, conveyor lines, tippers etc end-to-end - from contract award to operational final acceptance.
- Manage the material handling scope of greenfield sort centre projects and coordinate with internal AMZ stakeholders as part of an integrated project team.
- Coordinate system commissioning and predefined testing activities, including administering the plan, interpreting statuses and reporting results.
- Manage material handling equipment vendor on site during mechanical and electrical installation and report accurately progress to Amazon business.
- Understand and ensure machinery compliance against relevant country specific and EU legislation.
- Review technical offer’s including scope of supply, planning assessment, exclusions and risks.
- Monitor and report progress and deviations and risk of vendor supply chain.
- Coordinate on-site vendors through their leads and escalate issues through vendor and Amazon leadership during the project execution phase.
- Monitor and enforce project schedules and quality with vendors or subcontractors.
- Develop and handle budget and contract documents including RFPs, change order controls, purchase orders, and invoicing.
- Coordinate with local site management to ensure proper operator training, procedural compliance, maintenance and safety practices are followed for new and existing equipment.
- Thoroughly document/investigate projects change requests and provide recommendations.
- Build effective working relationships with SC leadership and their operations teams across multiple sites as well as their Launch, Facilities, Finance, Safety and Process Engineers business stakeholders.
- Identify and coordinate process improvement initiatives in support of operations teams within the node.
- Perform and direct data mining on the performance of complex material handling equipment and work with vendors to provide quality solutions.
- Inspect equipment and produce punchlists to Amazon installation standards and specifications.
- Master’s degree in Engineering, Operations, Business Administration, or a related STEM field.
- Demonstrate proven design experience of Material handling experience and or manufacturing.
- Exposure to Six Sigma, Lean manufacturing efforts, transportation/logistics and/or fulfillment/distribution centers.
- Direct management or responsibility for material handling, automation, or technical projects.
- Proven technical leadership for industrial engineering projects or programs.
- Experience in Failure Mode and Effective Analysis of systems and processes.