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Innovation and Design Engineer, Worldwide Design Engineering

Amazon 🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Onsite $94,300 - $160,000 Full-time Mid-level

You will design high-quality, cost-effective solutions for fulfillment and distribution systems while managing projects from concept to design approval. Additionally, you will serve as the primary technical contact for suppliers and support the operations team during installation and commissioning.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with internal and external teams to design high-quality, cost-effective solutions for fulfillment and distribution systems
  • Own multiple projects simultaneously, from concept realization through design approval
  • Be the primary point of technical contact for suppliers for assigned projects
  • Hand-off projects to the Ops Engineering team for installation and commissioning
  • Support the Ops Engineering team to ensure successful installation, commissioning, and launch of designed systems
  • Work on a variety of template-based and designed-from-scratch projects, including green-fields, brown-fields, and retrofits

Requirements

  • Experience in management of engineering design projects
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent
  • 3+ years of experience in Design/Innovation, research & development, manufacturing, process, industrial engineering, or related work
  • Master's degree in Engineering (any domain) or foreign equivalent, Operations, Business Administration, or a related field (preferred)
  • Knowledge of concepts like system architecture, optimization, system dynamics, system analysis, statistical analysis, reliability analysis, and decision making (preferred)
  • Experience with complex automated material handling equipment, packaging technologies, and systems and high-speed manufacturing (preferred)
  • Experience with design-in-safety (preferred)
  • Experience with process design based on Lean Principles (preferred)

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
  • Maternity and Parental Leave Options
  • Paid Time Off (PTO)
  • 401(k) Plan
  • Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, 401(k) matching, and parental leave

Key Skills

Engineering design Project management Complex problem-solving Automated material handling equipment Packaging technologies Robotics System architecture Optimization System dynamics System analysis Statistical analysis Reliability analysis Decision making Design-in-safety Lean Principles Process design Communication Collaboration Teamwork Leadership Time management Organization Adaptability Ambiguity tolerance

About Amazon

Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. We are driven by the excitement of building technologies, inventing products, and providing services that change lives. We embrace new ways of doing things, make decisions quickly, and are not afraid to fail. We have the scope and capabilities of a large company, and the spirit and heart of a small one. Together, Amazonians research and develop new technologies from Amazon Web Services to Alexa on behalf of our customers: shoppers, sellers, content creators, and developers around the world. Our mission is to be Earth's most customer-centric company. Our actions, goals, projects, programs, and inventions begin and end with the customer top of mind. You'll also hear us say that at Amazon, it's always "Day 1."​ What do we mean? That our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon's very first day - to make smart, fa

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