Lead electrical design and remediation projects in operational data centers, reviewing studies and equipment, managing documents and consultants, and supporting construction through turnover.
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This role leads development of control systems for Material Handling Equipment within Amazon's Japan Logistics (AMZL) operations. Responsibilities include improving existing control systems, implementing control systems for newly introduced equipment in collaboration with domestic and international partners, and ensuring stable operations of network-connected components. The engineer owns both implementation and post-implementation issues, including data analysis when problems occur and collaboration with stakeholder departments including overseas partner teams. Time is split roughly 40% on project management, specification development, implementation, and troubleshooting of control systems for new mechanical equipment; 20% on improvement analysis and troubleshooting of existing mechanical control systems; 20% on research and evaluation of new control technologies; and 20% on collaboration with domestic and international teams on project execution and best practices. Requires 5+ years of industrial, operations, manufacturing, or project engineering experience in a manufacturing environment, a bachelor's degree, 4+ years of PLC programming experience, 2+ years of PLC/SCADA integration experience, and business-level English and Japanese. Preferred: intermediate knowledge of AutoCAD, VBA, and SQL, experience managing third-party vendors, and experience with Six Sigma or lean manufacturing.
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