Global Transportation Innovation Engineer

Amazon; Factoria (WA); On-site; USD 99,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon’s Transportation Design Team is seeking an Innovation and Design Engineer to design and build high-performance material handling systems for global distribution centers. You will lead complex design projects from concept through implementation, collaborating with multiple internal and external partners in a fast-paced environment.

The ideal candidate has strong project management and engineering design experience, with the ability to solve ambiguous problems and deliver scalable solutions

Qualifications

• Experience in management of engineering design projects
• 3+ years of Design/Innovation, research & development, manufacturing, process, industrial engineering, or related experience
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering (any domain) or foreign equivalent, Operations, Business Administration, or a related field

Responsibilities

• Responsible for various facility designs from the time projects are selected to the successful launch for the Operations team to start delivering customer packages.
• Invent, design, and implement engineering solutions to complex material flow and human/machine efficiency problems throughout the global Amazon supply chain.
• Lead and coordinate design and innovation efforts to develop optimal solutions for the transportation network through equipment specification, material flow, process design, site layout, and intellectual property considerations.
• Collaborate with internal teams and external vendors to generate high quality, cost effective solutions in very short periods of time.
• Simultaneously manage multiple projects and tasks while effectively influencing, negotiating, and communicating with internal and external business partners, contractors and vendors.
• Provide technical leadership for large-scale engineering projects.

Skills

Engineering design leadership

Project management

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Master's degree in Engineering

Job description

Amazon’s Transportation Design Team is seeking an Innovation and Design Engineer to design and build high-performance material handling systems for global distribution centers. You will lead complex design projects from concept through implementation, collaborating with multiple internal and external partners in a fast-paced environment.

The ideal candidate has strong project management and engineering design experience, with the ability to solve ambiguous problems and deliver scalable solutions