Graduate Engineering Manager

Who you are

• Are you a student?
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Technology, or Reliability Engineering

What the job involves

• Manage cross-functional project lifecycles across organizations and geographies, ensuring delivery of objectives and targets
• Actively participate in engineering reviews, contributing to and improving proposed solutions for systems and components
• Collaborate with stakeholders to set priorities, establish milestones, and drive schedules, proactively addressing dependencies and mitigating issues
• Lead execution of systems and automated equipment designs, overseeing installation, throughput, and safety qualifications while optimizing processes
• Conduct effective meetings, ensuring proper documentation of discussions, decisions, and action items
• Provide timely and accurate project status updates, risk analyses, and mitigation plans to leadership
• Clearly articulate system and equipment designs, including technical specifications and capabilities, to internal and external partners
• Efficiently manage change order controls, purchase orders, and invoice approvals
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships across multiple projects and stakeholders
• Identify and spearhead process improvement initiatives to enhance project efficiency and value delivery
• A day in the life:
• You are managing one or multiple projects that can vary in scope, complexity and duration
• Daily tasks may comprise of site coordination with operations teams and contractors on project execution activities or changes; deep diving project progress, schedule and resources, while identifying barriers, creating solutions and driving resolutions
• You may be facilitating the planning and/or implementation meetings with projects’ stakeholders, ensuring alignment in objectives, expectations, and the next steps; you would capture and publish detailed notes after each meeting to drive ownership and follow-through on the actions and decisions
• You may be brainstorming and developing workaround solutions while mitigating the project delays or design issues
• In addition, you may be supporting/training other engineering team members, utilizing the knowledge of Amazon’s safety, mechanical, electrical and controls installation standard and guidelines
• Key competencies of this position include insisting on the highest standards ensuring that contracted resources meet schedule, budgetary, safety and quality targets; analyzing and deep diving systems’ performance, inventing and simplifying solutions that allow for improved processes and results; and