Amazon Data Center Engineering Operations Technician 

United States, Ohio, Hilliard 

133573550

Key job responsibilities
• Lead cross-functional supply chain team dedicated to the supplier and supply chain design, sourcing and logistics decisions, and supply chain execution for robotics products from concept, through development, to scaled deployment.
• Act as single point of contact for program resources (leadership and working teams) to communicate Supply Chain decisions and progress, provide feedback on supply chain implications of program decisions and changes, and support financial planning and capital approvals for the program.
• Work with Robotics leadership to ensure partnership between Robotics Supply Chain, hardware engineering, operations and program teams on commodity and supplier selection, cost performance tradeoff analysis, cost road map development and execution, and enabling rapid product development stages, and delivering an effective path to scaled deployment.
• Responsible for definition and approval of the Product level Supply Chain Strategy documents, including identification of critical components and suppliers, product cost roadmap to meet payback targets, definition of capacity plan and associated sourcing and tooling requirements, supply chain risk assessment & mitigation plans.
• Work with sourcing in developing negotiation strategies for categories which impacts the product to deliver against business objectives and achieve sustainable relationships with strategic suppliers pertaining to Amazon Robotics products supporting the priority programs as driven by the Operating Plan (OP)
• Work with GCMs on managing overall supplier relationships including supplier performance, capability development, capacity planning, contracting, risk mitigation, and cost and quality improvements.
• Develop roadmap to achieving NPI and GA total cost targets (TCO), including make vs. buy analysis and value engineering opportunities
• Ensure non-cost goals (Sustainability, Supplier Development, Cost Savings) are met and supported by the product specific supply chain strategy.
A day in the life

- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or other technical discipline (Bachelor’s degree in Business, Operations, Supply Chain management will be considered with 3+ additional years of technology focused supply chain work)
- 5+ years of experience in technical and commercial sourcing environment in a high volume manufacturing operations
- 5+ years of direct experience in supplier/supply chain management
- Experience in Global supply chain, commercial/vendor management, technical product development
- Experience working with technical teams (HW engineering, applied science, etc) on new product development
- Experience developing and/or deploying advanced vision, sensors, and compute hardware and software
- Knowledge of basic supply agreement construction; understanding of key contracting provisions/requirements
- Experience with Microsoft Office
- Working knowledge of applicable industries, robotics, semiconductors, consumer electronics, electric vehicles, or similar