Do you enjoy fast, free, shipping as a member of Amazon Prime? Come join a team that is part of enabling fast delivery across long distances for items that customers love via Amazon Air (AIR).
The Third Party (3P) Process Engineering (PE) team is a group of operational leaders driving process stabilization, standardization, and continuous improvement. An AIR 3P PE is responsible for 3-5 third party air gateway facilities. The 3P PE will manage the inverse relationship between cost and service, developing innovative ideas which create value for our customers. They will have customer impact by identifying and solving operational deficiencies, deep diving data, using engineering principles in the development of processes and planning tools, and project management skills to implement change. 3P PE’s act locally, but build globally, standardizing AIR’s 3P operations.
This position can be based in SeaTac, WA, Fort Worth, TX, San Bernardino, CA, or Lakeland, FL.
Key job responsibilities
- Plan, organize, implement, and manage capital and process improvement projects
- Evaluate network capacity
- Build short term and long term business specific models
- Plan and design systems that meet business needs by improving integration of people, materials, equipment, software, and finance
- Recommend and implement changes to safety procedures, work methods, and labor standards
- Project manage from conception to completion for field locations
- Set clear goals and lead a team to directly or indirectly achieve those goals
- Conduct and lead project meetings with Senior Management
- Assess and optimize processes and equipment used in the facility
- Typical projects could include spearheading process improvements, evaluating ergonomic needs and issues within work areas, or conducting a capacity planning and analysis study for peak season
- Travel domestically up to 50% of the time to support 3P Gateways across the country
A day in the life
A 3P Process Engineer delivers innovative solutions to improve the customer experience. PEs travel to sites 50% of their time, working with vendors to resolve issues and evaluate performance objectives and metrics across the network to proactively identify process improvement opportunities and improve operational performance, using data analysis to deep dive performance. This role will work with multiple Amazon organizations including: North America Fulfillment Center (NAFC), North America Sort Centers (NASC), World wide Design Engineering (WWDE), Finance, Safety, Vendor Management, Operations, Network Planning, Security, and Airport Affairs. PEs are technical experts of Amazon systems and are in the unique position to combine expertise between multiple organizations, bringing solutions to fruition.
About the team
The 3P Process Engineering team is broken into multiple geographic regions. Each region consists of 3 to 5 PEs, which mirrors the operations management structure. 3P PEs travel to sites 50% of their time executing, measuring, and supporting communication of project impacts in partnership with the Regional Gateway Manager's (RGM) across the AIR network. AIR Process Engineering values diversity and both recruits and hires focused on this Amazon value.