Innovation & Transportation Design Engineer

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

Job summary

Amazon’s World Wide Design Engineering transportation team is hiring an Innovation and Design Engineer to develop logistics systems at scale. You will design high-performance facilities and lead engineering solutions across the global supply chain, balancing material flow, safety, and efficiency, while managing multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.

The role requires a strong background in engineering design projects, with 3+ years in design/innovation or related fields, and a Bachelor's

Qualifications

• 3+ years of Design/Innovation, research & development, manufacturing, process, industrial engineering, or related experience.
• Experience in management of engineering design projects.
• 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 management

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Master's degree in Engineering / related field

Job description

Amazon’s World Wide Design Engineering transportation team is hiring an Innovation and Design Engineer to develop logistics systems at scale. You will design high-performance facilities and lead engineering solutions across the global supply chain, balancing material flow, safety, and efficiency, while managing multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.

The role requires a strong background in engineering design projects, with 3+ years in design/innovation or related fields, and a Bachelor's