Sr. Operations Engineer, NASC Engineering

North America Sort Centers (NASC) Engineering is searching for an innovative and solutions-oriented Operations Engineer to join its efforts in developing and delivering next generation, world-class sortation and transportation processes and design standards.

If the notion of leading engineering projects amongst the world’s brightest talent to full potential excites you; if the idea of using groundbreaking technologies to develop sortation and logistics systems in the multi-national company that is Amazon, then keep reading.

Are you an innovative leader that wants to be part of world-class sortation centers and logistics systems across the globe? Do you want a high level of ownership in solving complex problems? Does the challenge of designing systems and processes that leverage ground breaking automated material handling equipment, packaging technologies and robotics appeal to you? If so, we have the job for you! We’re looking to add a high-impact operations engineer to our team.

In this role, you will collaborate with internal and external teams develop innovative and cost-effective solutions for our sortation and distribution systems. You will be responsible for creating, managing, updating new standard documents for the space, equipment, and distances involved in every process path and package handling step within NASC. You will own the knowledge and standard process for all of NASC and be a critical input and reference point for upstream design teams and downstream Operations support teams.

You will work with a team of highly skilled and highly engaged engineers in a fast-paced and often ambiguous environment. Our team works on hundreds of projects each year. You will be challenged; you will learn; you will work on high impact, high visibility projects; You will grow.

Key job responsibilities

• Strong written and verbal communication skills and owning frequent presentations to senior leadership, L8+
• Coordinate efforts to develop optimal solutions and processes for the sortation and transportation network through material flow, process design, site layout, and intellectual property considerations.
• Collaboration with internal teams and external vendors to generate high-quality workspace innovations for people, MHE, and technology within NASC
• Simultaneously manage multiple projects and tasks while effectively influencing, negotiating, and communicating with internal and external business partners, contractors and vendors.
• Effective communication skills, ability to execute the vision, detailed roadmap, and specific technical solutions.
• Travel Requirements: 50%

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Austin, TX, USA | Bellevue, WA, USA | Nashville, TN, USA | New York, NY, USA | Pittsburgh, PA, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience and strong technical background in relevant fields of automated or non-automated material handling equipment
- 5+ years of industrial engineer, operations engineer, manufacturing engineer, or project engineer in a manufacturing environment experience
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with experience in writing papers and presenting to senior leadership
- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition
- Experience working with and managing third party vendors
- Experience with Six Sigma, lean manufacturing

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor's degree in engineering, mechanical, operations, supply chain, business administration, or equivalent STEM field

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