Regional Automation Engineer, Amazon Reliability Maintenance Engineering IntlRME

At Amazon were working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there we need talented smart and driven people. We are one of the most recognizable brand names in the world and we distribute millions of products each year to our loyal customers.

We are looking for an experienced Regional Automation Engineer (RAE) to join our Intl Reliability Maintenance Engineering (Intl RME) team focusing on design program test and implement software solutions and processes that enhance the productivity and quality of our fulfillment sites.

This regional role is an opportunity to become part of our team and make a real impact in different Amazon sites across the world managing large-scale projects and initiatives providing technical support to local teams and creating innovative solutions to adopt world class automated technologies and systems.

This role requires travel to sites for support around 30%. This role is for SEU-LATAM AE Team which scope is within Europe and LATAM.

Key job responsibilities
- Understand and troubleshoot material handling control systems including PLC/PC controllers industrial networks (Ethernet ControlNet DeviceNet Profibus Profinet ASi) motor control systems servo drives frequency drives and electrical distribution systems.
- Programming and source coding for in-house built solutions based in PLC or PC controllers and SCADA/OEE platforms.
- Lead international innovate solutions related to Automation Systems.
- Project Management (PM) of large-scale initiatives that will require work activities coordination of site-based Automation Engineers (AE) to accomplish goals of the business.
- Apply Subject Matter Expertise (SME) on troubleshooting and dive deeps for engineering issues supporting local teams to investigate the root cause and planning actions to eliminate/mitigate the downtime of critical assets.
- Create optimize and monitor Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for control the efficiency availability and quality of the machines generating reports for improvement purposes.
- Manage and deal with Vendors to plan and coordinate tickets resolution for local teams or network wide issues.
- Provide technical guidance and decision making for collaboration projects or initiatives with other Amazon teams being a key stakeholder in supporting technical and major network support requests.
- Ensure remote troubleshooting capability is available on a rotational system to provide 24/7/365 support for all hardware or controls software systems within the sites locations.

About the team
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- Experience in automating deploying and supporting large-scale infrastructure
- Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python Ruby Golang Java C C# Rust
- Experience with Linux/Unix
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines build processes

- Experience with distributed systems at scale

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