Amazon's Reliability, Maintenance, and Engineering (RME) team is hiring for a Sr Sys Dev Engineer of Automation Engineering to join our corporate-based engineering team.

At Amazon we believe that Every Day is still Day One! We’re working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. The candidate will be a subject matter expert in controls systems, workplace safety, and data driven management and leadership. The role will involve material handling equipment (MHE) systems/applications, packaging automation, distribution processes, and storage systems. The candidate will manage multiple complex projects and simultaneously influence and develop relationships at all organization levels.

Key job responsibilities
• Coordinate and plan work activities for the Control Systems Engineers to accomplish goals and objectives of North America Customer Fulfillment teams.
• Work closely with building Operations, Operations Engineering, fulfillment center (FC) Start up Team, Amazon Fulfillment Technologies (AFT) Software teams, Amazon Customer Excellence Systems (ACES) team, and Safety in supporting MHE systems optimization and project implementation.
• Understand, maintain, and troubleshoot material handling control systems, including programmable logic controller (PLC)/personal computer (PC) controllers and industrial networks such as Ethernet, ControlNet, DeviceNet, Profibus, motor control systems, servo drives, frequency drives, and electrical distribution systems.
• Monitor MHE metrics and partner with maintenance/operations for system performance issues and provide analysis across all operations.
• Develop tools to help troubleshoot equipment quicker
• Visit sites and help train and monitor standard work of controls engineering
• Optimize and tune equipment for maximum throughput