Senior Mechanical Engineer

KION•Grand Rapids, MI

50d

About The Position

Amazon Principal Engineering (APET) Team Member – Mechanical Engineer A dynamic, fast paced, program guiding role focused on Mechatronic Engineering for the Amazon Account, with a Mechanical Engineering background. The Amazon Principal Engineering Team (APET) is charged with ensuring development of tools and processes to drive excellence in execution for the Amazon Project Teams both in quality and efficiency. The candidate for this role will act as a trusted advisor to our external Customers at Amazon and our internal execution team partners (engineering, installation, and management). This position will require real time collaboration with the Performance Excellence team, R&D, Customer Service and our Global Engineering partners.

Requirements

8+ years of mechanical application engineering experience.
Ability to innovate and create solutions that significantly improve opportunities to achieve business and technical results.
Excellent communication, influencing, and leadership skills at all levels.
Competence in making timely, effective, pragmatic decisions.
Ability to build credibility and confidence, as a trusted advisor, with internal and external Customers of varying backgrounds.
Function as a change agent by demonstrating past successes while driving and supporting change within the organization.
Demonstrate outstanding team building skills with the ability to improve interaction and efficiency as well as the ability to break down roadblocks and silos.
Demonstrated the following qualities: Work with sense of urgency, passionate, and self-motivation.
Personal responsibility and pride in work.
Does the right things to make teammates feel appreciated, understood, and included.
Takes ownership, willing to admit mistakes and gladly shares credit for team accomplishments.
Ability to offer and receive apologies graciously.
Often does more than is required, looking for opportunities to contribute outside of their area of responsibility.
Eager to take on all challenges presented.
Strives to understand what teammates are feeling during meetings and interactions.
Showing empathy to and interest with others on the team.
Attentive listener and awareness of how words and actions impact others on the team.
Ability to adapt behavior and style to fit the nature of the situation, conversation, or relationship.
Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States.
We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa now or in the future.

Responsibilities

Drive process, product, tool and solution innovation in the Amazon program.
Engage with holistic initiatives, research and development of new ideas.
Proactively create/conceptualize/identify improvements.
Identify program risks and develop mitigation plans.
Mentor/engage with others to create program wide lean and continuously improvement culture.
Keep standard documents updated and easily accessible.
Collaborate with the Performance Excellence team, to ensure the Amazon program is aligning with Global Dematic Standards wherever possible.
Capture lessons learned and provide continuous communication and training opportunities to affected groups.
Regularly facilitate kaizen events and act as an advisor that troubleshoots and resolves extremely complex problems within multi-departments across regions and/or cross-functional areas.
Direct process measurement, program scorecards and other metrics, which can also be used to drive process improvements in the end-to-end project lifecycle.
Support sales level concept and Solution Development technical reviews.
Helping drive consistent solutions and proven designs.
Support project level technical reviews, including the review of drawings, maintenance access, and rates, to name a few.