Senior Tech Ops Engineer, Manufacturing Operations

Amazon • Hebron, KY

1d • $139,300 - $208,000 • Onsite

About The Position

AWS Infrastructure Services is responsible for the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure, ensuring customers have continuous access to the innovation they rely on. This involves managing thousands of variables impacting the supply chain and requires talented individuals to help keep the cloud running. The team comprises software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, and operations managers. They collaborate across AWS to maintain high standards of safety and security while providing scalable capacity at the lowest possible cost. The team fosters an inclusive culture that encourages bold ideas and empowers employees to see them through to completion.

This role specifically seeks a highly analytical, driven, and experienced Mfg Ops Engineer to manage contract manufacturing vendor relationships and drive operational excellence in high-velocity manufacturing. The engineer will lead the strategic partnership with vendors providing design, development, manufacturing, and integration services for AWS servers and rack integration. Key responsibilities include optimizing vendor performance across cost, quality, capacity, delivery, compliance, and sustainability, ensuring efficient manufacturing capacity and timely product delivery to AWS data centers globally. The engineer will act as the primary point of escalation for vendor-related issues, manage material flow and logistics, and drive continuous improvement initiatives. This role demands exceptional leadership in executing complex rack build deployments and collaborating with cross-functional teams such as hardware engineering, supply chain, quality, lifecycle management, operations, compliance, and sustainability.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field
• 5+ years in manufacturing or related fields
• Experience with data analysis tools such as Excel, Pivot Tables, SQL, Tableau, etc.
• Experience managing multiple projects and priorities across teams in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• Knowledge of supply chain management concepts - forecasting, planning, sourcing, optimization and logistics or equivalent
• Experience engaging and influencing senior executives, demonstrating a strong familiarity with decision-making processes in enterprise customers.
• Experience working with customers with a passion for delivering exceptional service, or experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities.
• Experience managing multiple projects, prioritizing, planning, and managing time
• Experience in high-volume manufacturing operations or sourcing environments.
• Experience delivering complex projects with prior ownership of the operation of a mission-critical team and/or product

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree or above in management, business administration, economics, engineering, marketing
• Experience with the project management of technical projects.
• Six Sigma Black Belt Certification, or experience managing teams
• Experience in operational excellence, continuous improvement, or process improvement roles.
• Experience leading engineering design projects and interacting with cross-functional teams
• Experience in program, project, product management, or leading a product implementation process
• Travel up to 20% of the time

Responsibilities

• Day-to-day management responsibility for high-velocity assembly operations
• Act as point of escalation for all vendor-related issues including production, engineering, business continuity planning, and quality
• Manage vendor operational excellence through data-driven metrics and continuous improvement activities
• Lead quality defect evaluation and internal escalation/coordination for complex corrective and preventive actions (CAPA)
• Influence partner processes, technologies, and policies to achieve mutual benefits for both organizations in a sustainable manner
• Manage multi-discipline hardware development teams across CM/OEM/ODM vendors
• Manage material flow and logistics to enable manufacturing execution
• Deep dive and solve supply chain blockages that affect rack delivery SLAs
• Analyze production schedules and demand forecasts, ensuring customer requirements are met while maximizing site utilization
• Drive material reuse opportunities, improving AWS's overall circular supply chain
• Lead and orchestrate the flow of materials, testing scripts, and BOM deployment at manufacturing sites
• Drive cross-functional strategic initiatives to improve supply chain efficiency and overall cost structure
• Own process engineering optimization and cost reduction initiatives for sustaining projects
• Guide best practices on manufacturing including process control, line optimization, tool effectiveness, and repeatability & reproducibility (R&R)
• Propose design changes that will enhance product sustainability
• Evaluate product Engineering Change Orders (ECOs) and drive multi-system process and system changes
• Conduct system-level analysis to optimize production operations
• Drive complex business analysis to identify opportunities to improve internal and external processes
• Design and maintain scalable, reliable analytical tools, dashboards, and metrics to drive key decisions and resource prioritization
• Develop and implement innovative sourcing strategies that meet AWS's cost objectives through in-depth analysis of cost drivers and bill of materials
• Craft compelling data-driven narratives and presentations that inform strategic decision-making
• Use written communications to influence product strategy
• Work cross-functionally to identify and apply best practices and continuous process improvements
• Influence internal technical teams to drive multi-system process and system changes
• Set project requirements and drive results across internal and external teams
• Building and maintaining positive relationships with stakeholders in Supply Chain, Design Engineering, Quality, Deployment, and product leadership
• Mentor team members on best practices for manufacturing engineering
• Engage and influence senior executives on operational matters

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior