Amazon · 1 month ago
Senior Manager, Design Engineering, Last Mile Design Engineering
Bellevue, Washington, USA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$156K/yr - $269K/yr
10+ years expAmazon is a leading global company known for its innovative logistics solutions. The Senior Manager, Design Engineering will oversee the design and management of delivery station projects, ensuring high-quality standards and effective team performance while collaborating with various internal stakeholders.
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Responsibilities
Responsible for the Delivery Station project designs from the time projects are selected to the successful launch for the Operations team to start delivering customer packages
Responsible for managing a team of Design Engineers and CAD drafters to deliver timely and cost-effective designs for both interior and exterior flow of the Delivery Stations
Responsible for determining needs for Design resources, hiring, developing, coaching, and mentoring of those resources to improve learning curves and contribution towards teams’ success
Responsible for daily, weekly, quarterly plan of how Design resources are being utilized to meet and exceed the business needs within a region
Responsible for the quality and the performance of the team meeting and exceeding design deliverables against daily, weekly, quarterly plans for the region
Responsible for developing and enforcing company wide Delivery Station Design standards in collaboration with global design teams, Safety, Process Engineering, Material Handling Equipment, and Launch
Reviews and intakes new expansion, retrofit, process improvement initiatives and opportunities to support associate and driver safety, quality, and productivity, and capacity increase for the delivery stations
Leads solutions for recurring process issues and improvement projects within Design Engineering processes and facilitates new solution implementation and adoption across the Design teams
Collaborates with partner and downstream customer teams on their feedback, challenges, lessons learned, best practices, including revisiting current standards, processes, and deliverables
Collaborates with the technology and material handling teams to incorporate new technologies including equipment, robotics, conveyor systems, safety devices, etc
Identify and implement mechanisms across the larger team to increase scale, speed, and quality of designs
Drive long term processes to enable critical milestone completions, mitigation steps to bring programs back on schedule, and escalating risks to leadership for direction and support
Facilitate cross-functional reviews to collaborate on solutions for recurring and critical program defects
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a foreign equivalent
5+ years of engineering team management experience
Experience with complex automated material handling equipment, packaging technologies, and systems and high-speed manufacturing
10+ years experience in the job offered or related occupation of Industrial Engineer, Process Engineer, Manufacturing Engineer, or related role
Experience must involve technical leadership for large-scale engineering projects
Preferred
Master's degree or above in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, material science, physics or equivalent, or a Master's degree and experience implementing pragmatic operations solutions to solve problems such as the scheduling, routing, assignment, facility location, or lot-sizing problem
Experience with process design based on Lean Principles
Experience in project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management
Experience with design-in-safety
Knowledge of concepts like system architecture, optimization, system dynamics, system analysis, statistical analysis, reliability analysis, and decision making
Benefits
Equity
Sign-on payments
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
Amazon
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$8.11BKey Investors
AmazonKleiner Perkins
2023-01-03Post Ipo Debt· $8B
2001-07-24Post Ipo Equity· $100M
1997-05-15IPO
Leadership Team
Douglas J. Herrington
CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
Werner Vogels
VP & CTO
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