Engineering Project Manager, GES Operations Engineering

Amazon; México; Presencial; MXN 600.000 - 900.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Amazon is seeking an Engineering Project Manager for OPS Engineering to lead medium to large-scale automation projects at Fulfillment Centers. The role involves planning, design, procurement, installation, commissioning, and qualification with ownership of safety, budget, and performance across regional and global teams.

You will interface with internal teams like Worldwide Design Engineering, RME, PMO, Construction, IT, and Launch, plus external vendors.

Formación

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 3+ years of industrial/operations/manufacturing/project engineering experience.
• Fluent in English (written and spoken).

Responsabilidades

• End-to-end ownership of medium/large-scale engineering projects (planning, design, procurement, installation, commissioning, launch).
• Provide value engineering and innovative solutions to drive frugality and continuous improvements.
• Lead technical design reviews and propose design solutions for material handling and storage.
• Create and track CAPEX requests to ensure budget and value.
• Assess and communicate project status; drive risk escalations across teams.
• Own budget for the project scope and deliver savings with quality.
• Provide equipment specs and technical support to procurement and change management.
• Collaborate with WW Engineering, Construction, Operations, Reliability Maintenance Engineering, Procurement and Change Management.
• Participate or lead SME/process improvement teams; promote safer, leaner delivery processes.
• Manage contractor teams up to ~100 people.

Conocimientos

English fluency

Educación

Bachelor's degree

Descripción del empleo

Engineering Project Manager, GES Operations Engineering

Would you like an opportunity to travel and work regionally? The role will be based in Mexico with 50% of time travelling either domestically or to other countries. Are you keen to be part of a team directly responsible for the expansion and upgrade of Amazon buildings across countries? Are you seeking a fast-paced and growing environment focused on innovating for our customers, along with the opportunity to travel and work regionally? This position is highly visible in Amazon and has high business impact.

The Engineering PM will be responsible for delivering aspects of an Amazon Fulfilment Center (FC), focusing on its automation technologies (conveyance, sortation, robotics) and storage solutions. This person will be responsible for planning, designing and delivering medium and large size state-of-the-art material handling systems and technology innovations to effectively launch new Fulfillment Centers, expansions\convert existing sites and improve operations generally. The role will own Safety and make interventions accordingly. Safety is defined broadly and includes user ergonomics, environment and noise. There will be responsibility for budget and schedule of the projects. Give accurate updates and risk forecast. Focus on cost-saving while ensuring quality and optimum performance.

During execution the person will often act as the main interface point for internal and external stakeholders. Internal functional teams such as Worldwide Design Engineering, RME, PMO, Central Planning, Construction, IT and Launch and external such as vendors and consultants. There is input from the early design stages and direct responsibility from building access, commissioning through handover to the Operations and Maintenance teams who lead the FC from Go-Live.

For this experienced project manager role there is a high level of autonomy to manage the projects and an expectation to improve processes across projects.

Amazon expects the OPS Engineering Project Manager to take a high level of ownership and autonomy in leading the solution of complex problems in a fast-paced environment across multiple regional and global teams. The candidate will own Safety, ensure no unplanned disruption to live operations and make interventions accordingly. The Project Manager considers Quality to deliver long term operational performance and Sustainability as part of Amazon’s path to a greener and more sustainable future.

The PM is expected to lead or contribute to technology development; understand individual pieces of equipment, their application, benchmark performance and propose innovation.

The PM will be focused on meeting the needs of our internal customers to deliver systems which are safe, easily maintainable, ergonomic and reduce manual labor.

Key job responsibilities

1. End-to-end ownership for medium/large-scale engineering projects (planning, design, procurement, installation, commissioning and qualification, launch support)
2. Dive deep on technical details and provide value engineering and innovative solutions to drive frugality and continuous improvements
3. Lead technical design reviews and propose design solutions for material handling and storage solutions that meet both business needs and global design standards
4. Create, submit and track relevant CAPEX requests (Capital Planning) to ensure that all projects are delivered within budget and best overall value
5. Assess and communicate project status, drive escalations on potential risks and delays across multiple teams
6. Own the budget for the scope of the project. Give accurate updates and risk forecast. Gain savings while ensuring quality and performance
7. Assist in providing equipment specifications and technical support to Procurement, Change Management and other business partners for best value and competition
8. Collaborate closely with various internal teams such as World Wide Engineering, Construction, Operations, Reliability Maintenance Engineering, Procurement and Change Management
9. Participate/Lead Subject Matter Expert (SME) or process improvement teams, with the view to create safer, leaner and more effective delivery processes
10. Responsible for contractor management & teams up to approx. 100 people

A day in the life

You will work on the delivery of one of our Amazon Fulfillment Centers with a project Lifecyle of about a year with a high-performing team. During the early project phases of project design and bidding, you will predominantly work in an Amazon office or from your home. During the project execution, you will be typically spend 50% of your time at the project site, with peaks extending to most week days with full ownership during the last phases of project installation, Commissioning & Qualification and post Launch ramp up.

The location of the role is flexible within the country of your team.

You will enjoy the rewarding experience to launch an Amazon Fulfillment Center or to upgrade an existing one. After initial months onboarding, you will be progressively be given important and extending responsibilities, within your project and aside it, by taking the lead on other business horizontal tasks and supporting the whole OPS Engineering community in delivering high quality projects, supporting various business horizontal activities, including diversity initiatives and technical Subject Matter Expert (SME) roles. You will be constantly helped by the team, will respect and leverage diverse point of views and focus on inclusion of new members.

Responsible for contractor management & teams up to approx. 100 people

About the team

You will work on the delivery of one of our Amazon Fulfillment Centers with a project Lifecyle of about a year with a high-performing team. During the early project phases of project design and bidding, you will predominantly work in an Amazon office or from your home. During the project execution, you will be typically spend 50% of your time at the project site, with peaks extending to most week days with full ownership during the last phases of project installation, Commissioning & Qualification and post Launch ramp up.

The location of the role is flexible within the country of your team.

You will enjoy the rewarding experience to launch an Amazon Fulfillment Center or to upgrade an existing one. After initial months onboarding, you will be progressively be given important and extending responsibilities, within your project and aside it, by taking the lead on other business horizontal tasks and supporting the whole OPS Engineering community in delivering high quality projects, supporting various business horizontal activities, including diversity initiatives and technical Subject Matter Expert (SME) roles. You will be constantly helped by the team, will respect and leverage diverse point of views and focus on inclusion of new members.

Responsible for contractor management & teams up to approx. 100 people

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• 3+ years of industrial engineer, operations engineer, manufacturing engineer, or project engineer in a manufacturing environment experience
• Speak, write, and read fluently in English, and have the ability to take direction in English

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Six Sigma, lean manufacturing
• Experience working with and managing third party vendors
• Experience with retrofits, launches, or automation deployments, or experience building launch readiness frameworks, standard work, playbooks, and scalable deployment mechanisms across multiple concurrent sites
• Proficiency in French, Polish, Arabic, Portuguese, Turkish, Afrikaans and Zulu are preferred.

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