Senior Manufacturing Ops Program Manager

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 149,000 - 201,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Data Services, Inc. in Salt Lake City is seeking a Manufacturing Operations and Industrial Engineering Program Manager to own factory layout and material flow across AWS rack fulfillment sites.

You’ll work at the intersection of capacity planning, automation engineering, construction, and operations to scale manufacturing infrastructure. You will lead cross-functional teams, publish layout standards, and drive continuous improvement to reduce cycle times and enable rapid capacity

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
• 5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
• 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
• Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules

Responsibilities

• Translate rack fulfillment capacity plans into data-driven facility layouts for AWS manufacturing operations, designing end-to-end material flow from dock receipt through assembly, integration, test, and dispatch across EC2, Machine Learning, and Storage product platforms
• Design factory floor layouts including automation line stations, manual assembly zones, test positions, sub-assembly areas, burn-in, and repair workflows — determining optimal buffer sizing, automation vs. manual line trade-offs, and material handling system specifications (AMR/AGV routes, conveyors, ASRS) based on cycle time analysis, volume ramp curves, and product mix complexity
• Develop and maintain industrial simulation models (FlexSim, Plant Simulation, or equivalent) to identify bottlenecks, validate throughput assumptions, optimize material flow paths, and establish performance metrics including takt time adherence, buffer occupancy, and transport cycle times
• Coordinate utility and infrastructure requirements (power, cooling, network, compressed air) for each production zone with facilities and construction teams, ensuring infrastructure readiness aligns with layout phasing — particularly for high-density ML accelerator and Storage rack configurations requiring liquid cooling and high-power distribution
• Manage phased layout plans aligned with construction milestones, enabling production in early zones while build-out continues in adjacent areas; own layout change control, produce clear visual documentation (2D/3D layouts, material flow diagrams, phasing overlays), and develop replicable standards across the global manufacturing site network
• Drive continuous improvement and operations sustaining by owning the factory layout as a living document, partnering with Operations, Test, Process, and Automation Engineering teams to implement optimizations that reduce cycle time, improve throughput toward manufacturing-to-ship SLA targets, and enable rapid capacity deployment for new product platform introductions
• Excellent communicator with an ability to concisely and precisely convey information to executives and cross functional teams
• Needs to be an evangelist for teaching Automation to the organization.
• Ability to multitask on several concurrent projects of med to high complexity

Skills

Technical PM experience

PM with software teams

Cross-functional collaboration

Release scheduling

KPI/SLA definition

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Data Services, Inc. in Salt Lake City is seeking a Manufacturing Operations and Industrial Engineering Program Manager to own factory layout and material flow across AWS rack fulfillment sites.

You’ll work at the intersection of capacity planning, automation engineering, construction, and operations to scale manufacturing infrastructure. You will lead cross-functional teams, publish layout standards, and drive continuous improvement to reduce cycle times and enable rapid capacity