Senior Innovation Manager

ENGINEERINGUK; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Senior Process Engineer, where you'll innovate material handling systems and processes. This role emphasizes design excellence and sustainable infrastructure, pushing the boundaries of efficiency and automation. You'll collaborate with experts, manage engineering projects, and contribute to groundbreaking solutions that redefine industry standards. If you're passionate about engineering and eager to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment, this opportunity awaits you. Embrace the chance to travel across EMEA and connect with diverse teams while driving innovative projects that shape the future of engineering.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in designing innovative material handling systems.
• Ownership of engineering design projects with a focus on efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Design Yard and UTR infrastructure concepts and develop functional requirements.
• Create Material Flow Diagrams and collaborate on optimal design solutions.

Skills

Material Handling Systems Design

Lean Principles

Project Management

Statistical Analysis

Decision Making

Process Design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Master's degree in Engineering

Tools

AutoCAD

MS Excel

MS Project

Job description

Senior Process Engineer, Innovation, Engineering & Sustainability

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Berlin - DE or London - UK.

The Innovation & Engineering vision is to develop novel end-to-end process-centric and sustainable infrastructure concepts, striving to meet or even exceed current True North. The team is working against ambitious targets concerning All-in TPH, VCPP, space efficiency (shipments per sqm / cbm) and embodied carbon. The team consolidates SMEs to cover complex tasks concerning yard, MHE, UTR processes, container design and sustainability.

Responsibilities:

1. Design Yard and UTR infrastructure concepts.
2. Govern new builds or retrofits from Building Requirements Sheet to Design Reviews.
3. Develop functional requirements with ACES and WWDE.
4. Support Procurement for vendor selection.
5. Collaborate with NASC Engineering to design Middle Mile Nodes using infrastructural models derived from analytical work.

The ideal candidate for this position will demonstrate relevant experience in designing innovative and groundbreaking material handling systems and processes. These concepts and solutions should aim to exceed industry standards in terms of efficiency, waste reduction, and automation. The candidate will be responsible for developing lean and efficient material handling equipment (MHE) and processes that embody design excellence.

This position involves up to 50% travel throughout EMEA, connecting with our Middle Mile operations and corporate offices across the region.

Key job responsibilities:

1. Develop novel and process centric material handling system concepts and solutions for EU ATS Middle Mile Nodes (MMN).
2. Foster a design excellence approach starting from business requirements towards optimal costs for new infrastructure that strives to zero process waste.
3. Create Material Flow Diagrams.
4. Create concepts and layouts with AutoCAD or similar software at least in 2D.
5. Drive design reviews with partners to share ideas and receive feedback.
6. Provide data-driven process and engineering-related advice to the leadership by written narrative business documents.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1. Bachelor's degree in Engineering (any discipline), Operations, or a related field and proven experience in the specialty.
2. Experience with automated material handling equipment, packaging technologies, and systems including robotics and high-speed manufacturing.
3. Experience with process design based on Lean Principles.
4. Experience in Capital project management.
5. Experience with concepts like system architecture, optimization, system dynamics, system analysis, statistical analysis, reliability analysis, and decision making.
6. Experience must involve ownership/management of engineering design projects.
7. Experience using business/technical software like MS Excel, MS Project, and CAD software.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. Master's degree in Engineering (any discipline), 2-5 years Operations, or a related field.
2. French, German, Polish, Portuguese, Arabic, Turkish, Afrikaans and Zulu are considered preferred qualifications.

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build.