2024 Operations Engineering - Field Engineer Intern, Global Engineering Services (GES)

This role is a part time internship (20 hours a week) during the academic year (February 2024-May 2024) followed by a full time (40 hours) 10-week internship starting in the summer of 2024. This is NOT a corporate or virtual position and will be located on-site in a fulfillment center, sort center, delivery station, or other warehouse/construction/job trailer environment.

Amazon is searching for innovative and solutions-oriented Engineering Interns to be a part of our North America initiative to develop and deliver next generation, world-class fulfillment systems. What is fulfillment you ask? Fulfillment is how we refer to completing or fulfilling a customer’s Amazon.com order and the acts of picking, packing, shipping and delivering their order to meet or exceed their expectations!

Our Project/Field Engineers have the ability to quickly adapt strategies, plans, and solutions to affect dynamic business requirements. They are comfortable interfacing and driving various functional teams and all stakeholders at all levels of the organization. Open minds, customer focus, innovation empowerment, advanced technologies, team comradery, and drive our Regional Operations Engineering team to deliver the most advance fulfillment solutions in the world.

About the Program
- The program is divided into a spring and summer term. The spring term is a part time internship from February 2024 – May 2024 (20 hours a week). The summer term is full-time (40 hours a week) and lasts 10 weeks during the summer of 2024.
- Candidates must reside within a 45 mile radius from the site during the spring term.
- This position is NOT a corporate role and will be located in a Fulfillment Center, Sort Center, Delivery Station, or other warehouse/construction/job trailer environment.
- 50-75% travel may be required to support Amazon’s installation sites throughout North America during the summer term.
- A driver’s license is required due to on-site internship locations.


Key job responsibilities
- Drive resolution for an intern project by owning and deep diving data to support a process improvement recommendation
- Support management, design, and execution of medium scope integrated automation projects with system elements such as high-speed sortation, multiple conveyors, package lines, and/or robotic work cells
- Develop and create work instructions for diverse engineering team and disciplines including project management, installation standards, and supplier integration methods
- Analyze current processes in order to break down into steps and develop recommendations for improvements or streamlining
- Develop work instructions, job aids, and training content for a technical audience
- Partner with business stakeholders to understand program goals and identify learning solutions that will make their programs successful
- Direct system commissioning and predefined testing activities, including administering the plan, interpreting statuses and reporting results
- Coordinate with local site management to ensure proper operator training, procedural compliance, maintenance and safety practices are followed for new and existing equipment
- Inspect facilities in accordance with corporate standards and procedures relating to material handling, processing and storage
- Ability to perform the following task, with or without reasonable accommodation:
• Stand and walk for up to 12 hours
• Walking in/around the warehouse with great frequency; many facilities are over a quarter mile in length
• Access all areas of building by ascending and descending ladders, stairs, gangways safely
• Regular bend, lift, stretch, and reach below the waist and above the head
• Lift and move totes up to 49 pounds each
- Work weekends, holidays, and/or overnight shifts and overtime (as required)

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

Albuquerque, NM, USA | Charlton, MA, USA | Fayetteville, NC, USA | Johnston, RI, USA | Los Angeles, CA, USA | Nashville, TN, USA | Newark, NJ, USA | Phoenix, AZ, USA | Seattle, WA, USA | Woodburn, OR, USA

Basic Qualifications

- Currently working towards Bachelor’s Degree with a graduation date between December 2024 and August 2025
- Pursuing Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial, Mechanical, or Civil Engineering, or a related field

Preferred Qualifications

- Proven technical guidance for large-scale industrial engineering projects
- Experience with implementation of integrated automation solutions, such as complex material handling systems, high speed packaging lines and manufacturing lines
- Proficient in Microsoft Office products: Excel, Project and Outlook
- Highly proficient CAD skills; capable of developing an integrated automation layout unassisted
- Exposure to Six Sigma, Lean manufacturing efforts, transportati