Senior Automation Engineer, Amazon Logistics Mexico

Automation Engineer

The Mexico Amazon Logistics (AMZL) team is seeking an Automation Engineer to lead the strategy and application of automated Material Handling Equipment (MHE) into our Mexican Delivery Station Network. The successful candidate will be a member of the Emerging Countries Engineering team and will be responsible to define, test, validate and implement various Automation systems in the Delivery Station network in Mexico. This role requires experienced and entrepreneurial minded Engineers with combined automation, engineering, planning and analytical skills. This individual will support automation implementation projects and will partner with Process Engineering teams, Operations leaders, Facilities and Engineering teams to effectively deploy and operate advanced technology across Amazon's last mile network. This role will be based in Mexico City and involves frequent domestic travel as well as occasional international travel. You will also partner with WW counterparts to benchmark and support parallel development projects.

Key job responsibilities:

• Own automation strategy for MX last mile operations
• Identify process paths to automate based on various factors; labor, cost, safety, performance, etc. working with Process Engineering and Operations partners
• Author business cases to introduce automation to the Delivery Stations network in MX and improve performance
• Lead MHE automation pilots in MX by measuring success criteria for meeting metrics for productivity, quality and safety
• Collaborate with internal teams to provide technical documentation such as flow diagrams, equipment layouts, installation details, schedules and budgets for new automation systems to understand integration impacts on existing processes and building design
• Support lessons learnt program for new automation system to understand improvements needed for next generation design iterations
• Work with design and controls teams to detail out integration plans for MHE automation
• Represent MX in cross functional teams to work on future technologies; robotics, automation, IoT to seamlessly integrate those into the Delivery Station eco-system
• Support execution of new MHE automation installations in partnership with field teams, defining the scalable turnkey deployment approach that field teams will utilize in the production environment
• Support development and implementation of Service and Maintenance concepts for AMZL Field teams