Design Engineer, North America AMZL Design Engineering

Overview

Amazon operates a world-class network of delivery stations across the globe. The Last Mile 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 Last Mile 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 Last Mile 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.

• 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.
• Collaborate 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.