Amazon.com Services LLC Looking For Senior Strategic Yard Design Manager, Transportation Operations Management (TOM) at South Dakota Full Time

5+ years of experience in program or project management

Experience using data and metrics to drive improvements

Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 5 years’ experience working in transportation, transportation design, pre-construction or construction industry

Job summary

Come join the exciting world of Transportation Services and Strategic Yard Design! This role is flexible to operate out of Seattle, Nashville, Atlanta, Minneapolis, or Phoenix.

Amazon’s Transportation Operations Management (TOM) team is a dynamic transportation space that will change how Amazon builds and runs trailer yards. TOM is seeking a Senior Strategic Yard Design Manager to help achieve our long term planning objectives specific to real estate and yard design.

TOM is the lifeblood that connects Amazon’s Fulfillment Centers, Sort Centers and other facilities across the network through transportation yards. More than 10,000 Transportation Associates (TA) across North America manage the critical yard space by overseeing incoming and outgoing trailers, driving over-the-road tours between Amazon buildings and shuttling trailers to optimize asset positioning. As Amazon’s Operations network scales to meet growing customer demand, TOM must constantly evolve its yard capacity management strategies and yard designs to support the growing network.

We are seeking a Senior Strategic Yard Design Manager to own and execute strategic, cross-functional projects on the Strategic Planning & Analysis team. This role is focused on yard design and capacity that directly impacts our current and future yard operations and capacity management. You will lead a function that sets standards for new launch yards and work with new business units to innovate for future yard designs. You will interpret current yard operations, simulation results, and real estate limitations to develop scalable designs and improve standards for Amazon Operations facilities in North America (NA) and the European Union (EU). In this role, you will work cross functionally with real estate, pre-construction, launch and implementation teams to drive meaningful network wide change.

Key job responsibilities

• Own the yard template and design standards for specific building types.
• Enhance and maintain yard capacity models to influence future real estate site selection.
• Leverage simulation models and innovate scalable solutions to design yards of the future.
• Implement mechanisms to drive network wide design changes for near term and future yard technology.
• Develop yard design solutions for TOM new business opportunities.
• Contribute to the development and long-term vision, strategy and entitlement of TOM operated yards with respect to design and technology.
• Coordinate with cross-functional project teams and execute complex projects across multiple organizations and stakeholders to enable the launch of new yard designs and initiatives.
• Review and guide internally requested changes for validity and impact.
• Write and review whitepapers using information acquired from various stakeholders.
• Create change request and design change request to influence network improvements for our customers.

A day in the life

Your day will consist of scoping and working on large cross-functional projects, managing project timelines and communicating to senior management on status, risks, and program design changes. You will work on model development and analysis as well as participate in discussions to develop yard design standards. You will identify potential pilot projects, develop design guidance and documentation to gain stakeholder buy-in, and guide new design standards through the change management process. You will lead internal customer meetings to understand and size business problems. You will constantly think big on how real estate and yard design can influence operations and capacity.

About the team

The Strategic Yard Design team owns the yard design standards and templates for current and future TOM managed sites. We work with the TOM Yard Products team to propose yard solutions for new business opportunities. The team works cross-functionally to invent new yard designs, prepare yards for future technology and ensure yards are right-sized to best support the operation.

• Master’s degree in Engineering or Construction Management
• Experience managing and delivering development programs with multiple target groups across multiple locations
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

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