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Amazon operates a world-class network of delivery stations across the globe. The Amazon Logistics (AMZL) Team is responsible for the acquisition, design, construction, and management of all facilities in the Amazon Delivery Station Network. We are looking for a Senior Program Manager, Design Engineering to join our North America AMZL Design Engineering Team who would support the launch and expansion of AMZL’s Delivery Station Network. This individual has experience in delivering results, ownership, and having the maturity to lead and influence teams.

This Program Manager for Design Engineering will have a talent and passion for program managing the delivery station design workstreams in North America. This role will work with other design program managers, design engineers, and CAD technicians towards structured, streamlined, and efficient program management of various design initiatives and design processes. The individual will support long term sustainable end-to-end program management processes incorporating project and imitative intake, scope requirements, timelines, resource management to meet business and customer demands. The internal customers and stakeholders will include Design Engineering, Process Engineering, Material Handling Engineering, Pre-Construction and its Architects, World Wide Building Design and its Architects. A strong planning and program management skillset, proficiency in project collaboration and program/ portfolio management tools, quantitative analysis, and the experience to organize and deliver new initiatives involving leadership across cross-functional groups. This position will support regular reporting and process improvements to support leadership reviews.

Key job responsibilities
Responsible for the end-to-end program management of initiatives driven by the various engineering and tech teams that require design engineering resources and support

Responsibilities include program intake, scope validation, technical details and specifications, timeline requirements, design resource requirements, and process to manage and track progress and deliverables

Programs include new delivery station launches and legacy delivery station network optimization and upgrades initiatives that require design engineering resources and support

Lead and manage process improvements and their communication within the design processes for the Design Engineering team

Collaborates with stakeholders including Pre-Construction, Construction, Startup Planning, Material Handling Equipment, Modules and Standards, Topology and Capacity Planning teams

Responsible for tracking and reporting daily, weekly, quarterly plan vs. performance actual of the Design milestones and resource utilizations for the Design Engineering team

Lead continuous process improvements to reduce and eliminate administrative burden for the Design Engineers

Tracks and enables the implementation of new Design standards within station designs in collaboration with World Wide Building Design, WHS, Process Engineering, Material Handling Equipment

Manages the Design quality control process that strives for accurate and zero-defect designs with high first pass yield

Program manages the new expansion, retrofit, process improvement initiatives and opportunities for the DE team at the program level to support associate and driver safety, quality, and productivity, and capacity increase for the network

Implements solutions to standardize the way of tracking and obtaining inputs and outputs for the Design Engineering processes, and hold partner teams accountable for the quality and timing of their inputs

Implement mechanisms to efficiently track the design revisions, architect inputs and deliverables with a goal of streamlining the duration of the overall design process

Contribute to network culture of standardization using best practice sharing with Worldwide counterparts, and incorporate into most up to date design process practices

Collaborates with partner teams on their inputs, feedback, and best practices

Facilitate cross-functional project specific reviews to implement design solutions and updates

Represents the Design Engineering team and provides the team’s outputs in cross-functional reviews including Topology, Capacity, Project Progress, Business and Budget approvals

About the team
The Amazon Logistics (AMZL) Team is responsible for the acquisition, design, construction, and management of all facilities in the Amazon Delivery Station Network.