What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Engineering Manager, Design Quality, Design Engineering Quality position at Amazon?
DESCRIPTION
As Sr. Manager of Design Engineering Quality, your primary mission will be to influence Design and Test criteria focused on controls, commissioning and installation to ensure and verify high quality predictable outcomes.
In your role you will be the key technical lead to influence global engineering quality for fast moving, large, complex material handling systems. You will lead a team who is responsible for identifying key technical aspects of system design and implementation that need to be inspected and verified to enable highly efficient and smooth site launches.
The Sr. Manager is expected to independently manage a team who is proficient in communicating effectively to a wide audience including other engineers, external vendors, customer organizations, and business leaders. As a leader you will establish mechanisms to measure and improve Design Quality outputs and develop solutions that can be scaled across the network.
You will have a proven track record of delivering results through team development and data-driven decision making. The Sr. Manager will have a strong commitment to safety, and a relentless focus on design quality, and operational excellence. Your leadership will be instrumental in establishing design quality standards that drive predictable, successful outcomes across our global operations.
Key job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
• Lead a specialized team developing technical testing methods for mission-critical features
• Establish and oversee quality metrics and improvement initiatives that scale across our network
• Drive engineering excellence for complete system implementations
• Foster collaboration between engineers, vendors, customers, and business stakeholders
• Champion data-driven decision making and continuous improvement
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, or related technical field
- 15 years of experience in Material Handling project execution OR equivalent combination of education and work experience
- 5 years of experience managing technical teams
- Experience leading full-stack automation projects (Hardware, Controls, Software) from concept through implementation
- Experience developing technical requirements and project specifications
- Experience must involve ownership/management of engineering design projects involving Material Handling Equipment (MHE)
- Experience using business/technical software like MS Excel, MS Project, and CAD software
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in creating and implementing standards with respect to testing and commissioning large scale highly automated complex warehousing systems.
- Master's Degree in Engineering, Robotics, or related technical field
- Experience managing geographically distributed teams
- Experience developing and executing multi-year technology roadmaps
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and build consensus across organizations
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