Engineering Manager • Lead

Who you are

You have a strong background in engineering management, with experience leading cross-functional projects that drive significant operational improvements. You excel in managing project lifecycles, ensuring that objectives and targets are met across various teams and geographies. Your ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders allows you to set priorities and establish milestones that keep projects on track. You are proactive in addressing dependencies and mitigating issues, ensuring smooth project execution.

You possess excellent communication skills, enabling you to conduct effective meetings and provide timely updates to leadership. Your technical acumen allows you to articulate system and equipment designs clearly, ensuring that all partners understand the specifications and capabilities involved. You are adept at managing change orders, purchase orders, and invoice approvals, ensuring that all project aspects are handled efficiently.

You are committed to continuous improvement and actively seek out process enhancement initiatives that lead to better results for customers. Your leadership style fosters strong working relationships across multiple projects, and you are known for your ability to motivate and guide teams towards achieving their goals.

Desirable

Experience in supply chain management or operations engineering is a plus, as is familiarity with advanced technology solutions for distribution and sortation processes. A background in project management methodologies will also be beneficial in this role.

What you'll do

In this role, you will lead and manage the lifecycle of challenging cross-functional projects within Amazon's operations. You will oversee the execution of systems and automated equipment designs, ensuring that installations meet throughput and safety qualifications. Your responsibilities will include conducting engineering reviews and contributing to the improvement of proposed solutions for systems and components.

You will collaborate closely with various stakeholders to set project priorities and drive schedules, proactively addressing any dependencies that may arise. Your role will require you to provide timely and accurate project status updates, risk analyses, and mitigation plans to leadership, ensuring that all parties are informed and aligned.

You will also be responsible for managing change order controls and ensuring that all documentation related to discussions, decisions, and action items is properly maintained. Your ability to identify and spearhead process improvement initiatives will be crucial in enhancing operational efficiency and delivering the best results for customers.

What we offer

At Amazon, you will be part of a team that is at the forefront of innovation in supply chain management. We offer a dynamic work environment where you can grow your skills and advance your career. You will have the opportunity to work on impactful projects that shape the future of our operations. We encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't match every requirement, as we value diverse perspectives and backgrounds.