Sr. Technical Program Manager, AWS Rack Manufacturing

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

AWS Infrastructure Services seeks a Manufacturing Operations and Industrial Engineering Program Manager to own factory layout and material flow design across AWS rack fulfillment sites. You’ll work at the intersection of capacity planning, automation engineering, construction, and operations to scale infrastructure across a global site network.

Strong leadership, data-driven design, and technical depth are essential as you establish manufacturing standards and publish process control guidelines

Qualifications

• Strong leadership and influencing skills are essential.
• Technical depth in manufacturing infrastructure is expected.
• Experience with capacity planning and automation engineering is a plus.

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, AS).

Skills

Leadership

Influencing skills

Automation engineering

Capacity planning

Data-driven design

Job description

Description

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we're the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain - and we're looking for talented people who want to help.

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

We are seeking a Manufacturing Operations and Industrial Engineering Program Manager to help us fuel AWS’ explosive growth. This role is the single-threaded owner of factory layout and material flow design across AWS rack fulfillment manufacturing sites. You will work at the intersection of capacity planning, automation engineering, construction, and operations — spanning EC2, Machine Learning, and Storage hardware platforms in AWS manufacturing. Your work directly enables AWS to meet datacenter capacity commitments by ensuring manufacturing infrastructure scales efficiently, reliably, and repeatably across a global site network. Possessing strong leadership, influencing skills, and technical depth are critical elements of success for this role. This leader will establish manufacturing standards and publish process control guidelines to assure flawless ramp into volume manufacturing.

Key job 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, AS