Innovation and Design Engineer, Worldwide Design Engineering

Amazon Inc.; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 94,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Inc. in Nashville, TN is seeking a senior engineering design leader to manage facility design from concept to launch for operations, delivering high-impact material flow and automation solutions.

You will own multiple projects, guiding design, supplier coordination, and execution through successful implementation. The role requires extensive experience in design/innovation within manufacturing or industrial engineering, with a focus on complex automated systems and lean processes.

Qualifications

• Experience in management of engineering design projects
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• 3+ years of experience in Design/Innovation, research & development, manufacturing, process, industrial engineering, or related work
• Experience with complex automated material handling equipment, packaging technologies, and systems and high-speed manufacturing
• Master's degree in Engineering (any domain) or foreign equivalent, Operations, Business Administration, or 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/processing 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 multiple networks 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

Project management

Engineering design leadership

Analytical thinking

Effective communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Description

Are you looking for a new challenge in a fast-paced, innovative organization, on a rapidly growing team? Do you have an obsession for customers and a strong interest in building advanced solutions? Do you have proven analytical capabilities, exceptional communication, project management skills? We are looking for creative leaders with a passion for innovation, a knack for problem solving, strong ownership, and possess the ability to multi-task and thrive in a fast paced environment.

Key job responsibilities
We’re looking to add high-impact engineers to our team to use ground-breaking technologies to develop fulfillment and processing systems on an unprecedented scale. In this role, you will collaborate with internal and external teams to design high quality, cost effective solutions for our fulfillment and distribution systems. You will own multiple projects simultaneously, from concept realization through design approval. You will be our suppliers’ primary point of technical contact for your projects. Then, once the design is completed and approved, you will hand-off the project to our execution team who will oversee the installation and commissioning of the project. You’ll support that team to ensure that the system you’ve designed is successfully installed, commissioned and launched. Your projects may include green-fields, brown-fields, and retrofits, including highly automated fulfillment centers, cross-dock facilities, reverse logistics, transportation centers, and specialty buildings. Your projects will be a variety of template-based and designed-from-scratch. You will work with a team of highly skilled and highly engaged engineers in a fast-paced and often ambiguous environment. Our team works on hundreds of projects each year. You will be challenged; you will learn; you will work on high impact, high visibility projects; you will grow.

A day in the life
Key job responsibilities

• Responsible for various facility designs from the time projects are selected to the successful launch for the Operations team to start delivering/processing 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 multiple networks 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.

About the team
Amazon offers a full range of benefits for you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:

1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options
3. Paid Time Off (PTO)
4. 401(k) Plan

If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience in management of engineering design projects
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• 3+ years of experience in Design/Innovation, research & development, manufacturing, process, industrial engineering, or related work

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with complex automated material handling equipment, packaging technologies, and systems and high-speed manufacturing
• Master's degree in Engineering (any domain) or foreign equivalent, Operations, Business Administration, or a related field
• Knowledge of concepts like system architecture, optimization, system dynamics, system analysis, statistical analysis, reliability analysis, and decision making
• Experience with design-in-safety
• Experience with process design based on Lean Principles

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .

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