System Development Engineer II, Reliability and Maintenance Engineering

Amazon's Reliability, Maintenance, and Engineering (RME) team is hiring for a System Development Engineer to join our corporate-based engineering team in Automation Engineering.

At Amazon we believe that Every Day is still Day One! We’re working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. The candidate will be a subject matter expert in controls systems, workplace safety, and data driven management and leadership. The role will involve material handling equipment (MHE) systems / applications, packaging automation, distribution processes, and storage systems. The candidate will manage multiple complex projects and simultaneously influence and develop relationships at all organization levels.

Key job responsibilities

• Drive maintenance Best Practices : Innovate, document, improve work methods, standardize, provide a safe work environment and require safe work practices, train, commission equipment, collect, measure, and analyze key performance indicators to improve processes and improve Amazon customers experience.
• Coordinate and plan work activities for the Control Systems Engineers to accomplish goals and objectives of North America Customer Fulfillment teams.
• Work closely with building Operations, Operations Engineering, fulfillment center (FC) Start up Team, Amazon Fulfillment Technologies (AFT) Software teams, Amazon Customer Excellence Systems (ACES) team, and Safety in supporting MHE systems optimization and project implementation.
• Understand, maintain, and troubleshoot material handling control systems, including programmable logic controller (PLC) / personal computer (PC) controllers and industrial networks such as Ethernet, ControlNet, DeviceNet, Profibus, motor control systems, servo drives, frequency drives, and electrical distribution systems.
• Monitor MHE metrics and partner with maintenance / operations for system performance issues and provide analysis across all operations.
• Facilitate Failure Analysis and Incident Review processes and implement process improvements or retraining to avoid future incidents.
• Apply subject matter expertise in material handling and electronic systems to maximize building utilization of systems.
• Handle flexible work load from management or other operations.

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