Control Systems Engineer, Amazon
FTC, EU Engineering Excellence
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The largest online retailer and technology provider
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The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Open for applications
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
Amazon aims to be Earth’s most customer centric company. Their mission is to continually raise the bar of the customer experience by using the internet and technology to help consumers find, discover and buy anything, and empower businesses and content creators to maximise their success.
Role
Who you are
- This position requires customer focus, self-motivation and project management skills to lead and support large, complex cross-functional Engineering projects
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering
- Technical background in relevant fields of automated or non-automated Material Handling Equipment
- Demonstrated experience in a similar project or program management role
- Experience in Lean Management, Six Sigma and other operations engineer tools
- Experience in writing technical assessment documents on MHE equipment or automation
Desirable
- MBA, MSc or Meng (Engineering, Automation, Robotics or equivalent)
- Experience in developing PLC code / machine controls
- Experiences with benchmarking technical equipment and metrics
- Experience with financial and statistical modelling
- 6-Sigma Black Belts would be a plus
- Advanced data analysis skills and experienced in using supporting tools e.g. Minitab, JMP, MS Excel, MS Access or equivalent
- Additional languages, apart from English, is a relevant plus but not a must-have for the role
What the job involves
- Amazon is seeking an experienced, hands-on and customer obsessed Control System Engineer to drive improvements and standardization across our Last Mile delivery network
- As a member of the EU Amazon Logistics Engineering team, you will be responsible for driving WW standardization efforts, whilst also supporting in-country Project Engineers with the necessary analytical insights to optimize operational processes on an ongoing basis
- You will scope and lead design and improvement programs under an EU umbrella, driving benefit over safety, quality and cost-based metrics
- Invent, design, and implement engineering solutions to complex material flow/transformation and human/machine efficiency problems throughout the Last Mile sortation processes, to generate high quality, cost-effective solutions
- Lead and coordinate design development efforts for optimal solutions for the Last Mile network through equipment specification, material flow, process design, firm engineering, ergonomics, associate experience, operational considerations and Delivery Station layout interferences
- Develop and continuously improve technical and design specifications for automated and non-automated Material Handling Equipment in the Amazon Last Mile Network
- Initiate and partially lead Kaizen events
- Review and sign-off ownership for specification and design deviations and change requests on global level
- Review and sign-off of supplier or integrator solution proposals for automated and non-automated sortation solutions
- Drive a culture of continuous improvement and innovation across the global AMZL Engineering Organization
- Evaluate technical and design issues and validate implications from or to standards
- Hosting business reviews with senior leadership and present results of above-mentioned standard definitions and benchmarks
- Present concepts, designs, program updates and roadmap to senior leadership on a frequent basis
- Work with partner teams in Innovation, Deployment, Maintenance, Safety and Operations to build impactful products
- A day in the life
- Your day could include engagement with all levels of the organization and multiple stakeholder groups to drive short, mid and long term decisions that have impact on a large scale across the AMZL network
- You would be working with external vendors and partners from Operations, Process Improvement, Health and Safety, Ergonomics, Finance, Procurement to design and develop standardized material handling equipment (MHE) and automation solutions (MLA) that can be deployed in AMZL Delivery Stations
- You will write and update the specifications of the above technologies and support deployment from the tender phase throughout the firm engineering to validate and freeze vendor’s design till execution of Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) and Site Acceptance Test (SAT)
- Further, you will be empowered to propose and drive continuous improvements initiatives focusing on performance, quality, ergonomics, usability and reliability of all the deployed technologies
- You will work at design level, benchmarking solutions from different integrators to identify design best practices
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Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
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Company benefits
- Employees have opportunities to own Amazon stock, participate in 401(k) plans with company match, and enroll in paid life and accident insurance
- Financial counseling and estate planning services are also available, plus paid short-term and long-term disability if needed
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage to all our regular full-time employees, regardless of their level, tenure, or position
- Amazon employees have free access to a network of more than 2 million caregivers, including nannies, babysitters and special-needs caretakers
- Employees receive discounts on certain day care centers, and Amazon provides a variety of free resources for parents of children with autism, ADHD and developmental disabilities
- Adoption assistance for qualified domestic and international adoption expenses including attorney fees, court costs, and travel
- Leave Share program allows employees to give six weeks of paid parental leave to a spouse or partner who isn’t eligible for parental leave from their employer
Company values
- Customer obsession rather than competitor focus
- Passion for invention
- Commitment to operational excellence
- Long-term thinking
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
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Founders
Jeff Bezos
(Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO (not founder))Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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