• Bachelor’s degree (BS)
• 7-10+ years proven experience leading or managing large cross-functional teams with process/flow/operations integration, testing and validation
• Proven experience in fulfillment systems processes with storage equipment, material handling systems, automated sortation system, and related automation equipment
• Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines.
• Strong process, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Proven experience using business/technical software like MS Excel and MS project
• Ability to travel up to 75% to demonstration locations for new automated solutions (and potentially in the field to support the Process compliance team)

We are working on the future. If you are seeking an iterative fast-paced environment where you can drive innovation, apply state-of-the-art technologies to solve extreme-scale real world challenges, and provide visible benefit to end-users, this is your opportunity.
Come work on the Amazon Robotics – Mechatronics & Sustainable Packaging (MSP) Team!
We are looking for an outstanding Process Validation Manager who will validate process and operational integration of new MSP automation solutions under development. This person will partner on one side with the internal Customers (Operations, Maintenance, Process, OpsEngineering, etc.) to translate their needs in technical requirements and validate new automation process integrations, on the other side with the Product Teams to ensure Customer requirements are early included into product design.
The primary role of the MSP team is to drive future innovation across all aspects of Mechatronics and Packaging, across industrial hardware/control machines such as robotic cells, autonomous vehicles, sortation, packing technologies and packaging materials. We drive strategic partnerships with key stakeholders such as Operations, RME, ACES, Supply Chain, Transportation, WW Design, etc. to ensure we deliver robust products that effectively integrate into the Amazon Fulfillment network.
The Process Validation Manager brings Internal Customers early into the development process, and partners with them to early validate that new MSP automation solutions meet process- and flow-integration requirements, stress-testing the integrated solution and designing/troubleshooting/validating the interfaces with upstream and downstream processes. The leader builds a team of test, operation and process experts who support product owners in life cycle management of MSP technologies to mitigate risk in operations and maximize asset utilization. The leader develops compliance and variation reduction mechanisms, and hands them over to the Field Compliance team to ensure fielded equipment performs as per process design. The Candidate provides product teams with expertise in logistics, operations, and process integration.
A successful candidate will have broad experience and exposure across multiple stake-holders and deep skills in complex process integration of automated solutions, which include a high degree of ambiguity. They will work successfully across multiple large engineering, process and operations teams at a strategic level and drive process design integration and validation, to maximize asset utilization and performance across all our automation Products deployed in the field. This candidate requires strong attention to detail, excellent communication skills, collaboration, analytical and abstract thinking, time management and organizational skills.

Key job responsibilities:

• Validate automation integration with upstream/downstream processes and flow to maximize asset utilization
• Coordinates testing and process-integration.
• Participates in product testing in the lead demonstration sites to validate utilization, supports Process compliance teams in to ensure field solutions materialize their entitlement.
• Identifies and analyzes issues, bugs, defects, and other problems; recommends and facilitates solutions to these issues.
• Connects with internal customers (Operations, RME, ACES, PE, OpsEng, WWDE, etc.), reviews client, customer, and user feedback.
• Maintains compliance with federal, state, local, and organizational laws, regulations, guidelines, and policies.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Virtual Location - USA
 

• Experience with complex automated material handling equipment, packaging technologies, and systems including robotics, and high speed manufacturing
• Strong communication skills to coordinate with team members, operations, and management
• Project managing skills to start projects and finish projects successfully

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Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $125,700/year in our lowest geographic market up to $233,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.