Senior Process Engineer, Innovation, Engineering & Sustainability, Amazon

Energy Vault; Redditch; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a global team as a Senior Process Engineer, where you'll drive improvements in Sort Center operations across Europe. This role involves managing complex projects, requiring strong leadership and communication skills, as well as a detail-oriented approach towards engineering and operations. You will collaborate with diverse teams while traveling across EMEA to optimize designs and achieve operational excellence.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Diverse work environment

Opportunity for travel

Qualifications

• Proven experience in managing engineering design projects.
• Experience with automated material handling and Lean Principles.
• Ability to deal with ambiguous environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead project teams and manage engineering design projects.
• Provide materials flow diagrams and reports on project metrics.
• Influence cross-functional teams and manage stakeholder relationships.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Data-driven decision making

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Tools

MS Excel

MS Project

CAD software

Job description

The role could be based in different sites in Germany, Uk, Spain, Italy and France.

Are you interested in launching the next generation of Amazon SC’s in Europe? Do you want to be part of the ongoing growth and expansion of Amazon’s infrastructure? Do you want to be a Subject Matter Expert concerning SC Yard design? Are you reluctant to apply because you’re concerned you don’t have the right qualifications? The Global Engineering Services Team has a full training plan and support network to help you grow and succeed within this role. The Middle Mile Engineering Programs team is seeking an experienced Amazon Senior Process Engineer to join the team to support the expansion of Sort Centers in Europe. The Senior Process Engineer is a key player in the end-to-end delivery of the complex challenge of launching new SC’s – or optimizing existing SC’s, driving improvements and standards to enable new SC’s to achieve benchmark rates while ramping to meet network capacity. In this role, you will influence a team comprising of Site Leads, Senior Operations Managers, Operation Managers, Area Managers, various Project Managers, Process SMEs, Design Engineers and as well as representatives of various key stakeholder. This role calls for an individual who is knowledgeable concerning Yard and Under The Roof operations, structured, confident and professionally and socially adept to earn credibility and trust with customers and stakeholders at various levels of the organization.

Would you like an opportunity to travel and work in multiple countries and cultures? This position, based in Germany (Berlin), Uk (London), Italy (Milan), Spain (Madrid or Barcelona) and France (Paris), involves up to 50% travel throughout EMEA, connecting with our Middle Mile operations and corporate offices across the region.

Key job responsibilities
• Will have the ability to deal and deliver results in an ambiguous environment concerning SC Operations and Yard
• Is able to support Yard related simulations to derive Yard infrastructure requirements.
• Is able to provide SC design inputs based data driven methodology
• Interpersonal skills, to motivate and lead project team.
• Communication skills to build relationships and identify with stakeholders across the organization.
• Is able to use their initiative and make decisions under pressure.
• Has the ability to seek opportunities to drive year on year savings and performance/process improvements.
• Will compile, manage and report on weekly project metrics and be responsible for leading many high-profile meetings to align on project requirements.
• Working backwards from True North processes and available data to close the gaps from current to desired state,
• Create Material Flow Diagrams,
• Provide data driven process and engineering related advice to the leadership by written narrative business document
• Has the ability to learn and adapt to changing circumstances.
• Has Fulfillment Center and/or Sort Center operational skills

A day in the life
In cooperation with other GES stakeholders, including but not limited to WWRE & Design, ACES/PE, AR, Ops, and others the team aims to optimize building designs, modules, and processes, in ensuring safety, quality, productivity, and AA experience related to SC Yard. They will ensure our future buildings, retrofits and expansions will both attend to the operational excellence requirements and have frugal solutions.
About the team Mission Statement Improve Sort Center and Yard designs frugally, emphasizing safety, customer experience, sustainability, quality, and productivity, through lessons learned, continuous improvement & innovation.

About the team
Amazon couldn’t deliver at pace without the Amazon Transportation Service (ATS) team. As part of ATS, you’ll be welcomed into a diverse team that plays a central role in our success. Using air, sea and road transport, as well as Sort Centers equipped with the latest technology, you’ll help Amazon’s transport run at maximum efficiency. Our team captures data and uses it to drive decisions. They are key to making Amazon more innovative and efficient.
We put safety first as our people are our priority. And we use the expertise of our people to get packages to their destination – quickly, conveniently and sustainably.

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

Preferred qualifications are not required to apply for a position at Amazon. If you have all the basic qualifications above, we’d love to hear from you.

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

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