Senior Sustainability Engineer - London, United Kingdom - Amazon TA

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    The Innovation & Engineering vision is to develop novel end-to-end process-centric and sustainable infrastructure concepts, striving to meet or even exceed current True North.

    The team consolidates SMEs to cover complex tasks concerning yard, MHE, UTR processes, container design and sustainability.

    Responsibilities encompass designing Yard and UTR infrastructure concepts, governing new builds or retrofits from Building Requirements Sheet to Design Reviews, developing functional requirements with ACES and WWDE, and supporting Procurement for vendor selection.

    Collaborating with NASC Engineering, the team designs Middle Mile Nodes using infrastructural models derived from analytical work.
    Middle Mile Node Program (MMNP) Innovation & Engineering is looking for a process and technical driven Sr. Innovation Engineer. A strong cooperation with EU and NA based engineering teams, ACES, Operations and team internal SME are key.

    Driving continuously innovation and inspiring others to provide novel ideas to meet and exceed the current True North is a key role requirement.

    A process engineering driven mindset is required, operational understanding in Middle Mile or Last Mile are ideal.

    Building relationships with above mentioned stakeholders, proven track of meeting and exceeding design KPI driven goals are requirements as well.

    These concepts and solutions should aim to exceed industry standards in terms of efficiency, waste reduction, and automation.

    The need for such concepts and solutions may arise from site-specific requirements or long-term network optimization initiatives, where a systematic approach is taken to identify and address business needs.

    Develop novel and process centric material handling system concepts and solutions (processes & MHE) for EU ATS Middle Mile Nodes (MMN) – reflecting Amazon internal and external volume,


    • Foster a design excellence design approach starting from business requirements towards optimal costs for new infrastructure that strives to zero process waste,
    • Working backwards from True North processes and available data to close the gaps from current to desired state,
    • Create concepts and layouts with AutoCAD or similar software at least in 2D,
    • Provide data driven process and engineering related advice to the leadership by written narrative business documents,
    • Travel 25-50% of time across European Middle Mile Nodes and corporate offices
    Innovation Engineer has to create material flow concepts and evaluate them against True North processes, productivity and costs. Innovation Engineer drives the concepts further towards a detailed engineering design and a matching process description. Innovation Engineer gatekeeps the high quality of the conceptual design and supports during vendor selection. As soon as the firm engineering phase starts, the Sr. Innovation Engineer will hand over the full responsibility of the design to WWDE and TES. Innovation Engineer will consult during firm engineering.
    Amazon couldn't deliver at pace without the Amazon Transportation Service (ATS) team. As part of ATS, you'll be welcomed into a diverse team that plays a central role in our success.

    Using air, sea and road transport, as well as sortation centres equipped with the latest technology, you'll help Amazon's transport run at maximum efficiency.

    Our team captures data and uses it to drive decisions. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

    • Bachelor's degree in Engineering (any discipline), Operations, or a related field and proven experience in the specialty,
    • Experience in Capital project management,
    • Experience with concepts like system architecture, optimization, system dynamics, system analysis, statistical analysis, reliability analysis, and decision making,
    • Experience must involve ownership/management of engineering design projects,
    • Experience using business/technical software like MS Excel, MS Project, and CAD software,
    • Travel 25-50% of time across European Sort Center sites.
    PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONSPreferred qualifications are not required to apply for a position at Amazon. Master's degree in Engineering (any discipline), 2-5 years Operations, or a related field
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