Amazon is seeking a Senior Controls System Engineer to support the Amazon Logistics North America (AMZL NA) Engineering team, part of Amazon’s Last Mile organization. The Last Mile team helps get customer packages from delivery stations to a customer’s doorstep.
We are looking for an individual who has experience creating scalable solutions to complex engineering problems. In this role, this individual will challenge current processes, equipment, procedures, and electrical/controls specifications in our delivery stations, in order to come up with creative and implementable process improvement initiatives with a focus on AB PLC/HMI, ignition, and vision systems continuous improvement. This Controls System Engineer will contribute to all aspects of an agile systems development life cycle including design, architecture, development, documentation, testing and operational sustainability. This position will be responsible for designing, managing and executing the next generation of delivery station processes, equipment, and operations. This is a unique opportunity to own new innovative projects that will advance the intelligence of our last mile business.
Key job responsibilities
- Dive deep and works to help solve critical design issues involving algorithm, develop hardware/firmware interfaces, IoT interfaces, etc
- Participate in design reviews for complex control systems, simulations, algorithms and software development owned by your team, partner teams and vendors
- Influences within your team and partner teams to help drive and develop the technical implementation for overall system designs
- Identify and implement process improvements which improve your team’s agility. This may include improvements to design, automation, development, test or operations.
- Simultaneously manage multiple high-visibility projects and tasks while effectively influencing, negotiating, and communicating with internal and external business partners, contractors and vendors
- Review new, advanced technology being introduced for MHE systems with a focus on machine software including electrical and controls interfacing requirements
- Provide technical guidance and decision making for collaboration projects or initiatives with other Amazon teams, being a key stakeholder in supporting technical and major network support requests.
- Understand control systems for material handling, including Allen Bradley PLCs, IPCs , barcode scanners and industrial networks such as Ethernet, safety over ethernet IP.
- Apply Subject Matter Expertise (SME) on troubleshooting and dive deeps for engineering issues, supporting local teams to investigate the root cause and planning actions to eliminate/mitigate the downtime of critical assets.
Ability to travel up to 90%
