Design Engineer, North America AMZL Design Engineering

Amazon operates a world-class network of delivery stations across the globe. The LastMile organization is responsible for the acquisition design construction and management of all facilities in the Amazon Delivery Station Network. We are looking for a Design Engineer to join our North America LastMile Design Team who will support the expansion of Amazon Logistics (AMZL) Delivery Station Network in North America (NA). In this role the Design Engineer will drive delivery station process building design and standardization across our Last Mile delivery network. As a member of the NA LastMile Design team the individual will be responsible for designing and optimizing the delivery and sortation network enabling operations processes to meet safety customer experience quality and cost goals that span delivery stations outside traffic flow and on-road operations.

Key job responsibilities
Responsible for building design development review and release for approval deployment of new delivery stations and existing station capacity improvements and enhancements.
Provide process expertise on engineering design including material flow labor placement conveyors equipment operations modules packaging profiles physical building and site layout components
Achieve the daily and weekly plan set in front of the Design Engineers.
Collaborate with Design Managers CAD drafters Real Estate Transaction managers Worldwide Engineering (WWE) Pre-Construction and its architects material handling equipment suppliers Launch and Start Up teams Finance Volume Planning and Capacity Planning teams among others.
Contribute to network culture of standardization using best practice sharing with European (EU) and Worldwide (WW) counterparts and incorporate into most up to date design practices.
Lead continuous process and design benchmark initiatives and conduct deep dive benchmark studies
Support the Design quality control process that strives for accurate and zero-defect designs.
Responsible for implementation of new Design standards in collaboration with Worldwide Design Safety Process Engineering Material Handling Equipment and Launch.
Responsible for new expansion retrofit process improvement initiatives and opportunities at the project level to support associate driver safety quality productivity and the capacity increase for the delivery stations.
Implement solutions for recurring process issues and improvement projects within Design Engineering processes.
Collaborates with partner teams on their inputs feedback and best practices.
Implement new template building designs process improvements safety processes etc. into standard designs.
Implement mechanisms to increase scale speed and quality of designs within the team.
Facilitate cross-functional project specific reviews to collaborate on design solutions.

*Travel up to 25% to support complex designs with quick simple and standard solutions.

- Bachelors degree in industrial or manufacturing engineering
- 5 years of industrial engineer operations engineer manufacturing engineer or project engineer in a manufacturing environment experience
- Knowledge of automated material handling systems packaging technologies and storage solutions
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office products and applications (Excel PowerPoint Word Visio and MS Project) at an advanced level

- Experience working with and managing third party vendors
- Experience with Six Sigma lean manufacturing
- Masters degree in industrial or manufacturing engineering
- Knowledge of AutoCAD at the intermediate level

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $68900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $126400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.