[Remote] Mechanical Integration Lead, OMHS
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Amazon is seeking a Mechanical Integration Lead to drive the successful installation, integration, and deployment of material handling equipment across multiple fulfillment center sites. This role provides hands-on mechanical engineering leadership in complex automation environments, ensuring projects meet Amazon's safety, timeline, cost, and quality standards.
Responsibilities
- Directly manage and lead mechanical installation crews deploying MHE across North American facilities
- Oversee structural header steel installation including hanging steel, prebuilding supports, and anchoring to building structure
- Lead conveyor prep and placement operations — rigging, lifting, staging, and setting conveyor sections into final positions on installed supports
- Manage conveyor connections and belting crews — ensuring proper mechanical alignment, bed connections, squaring, leveling, and hardware tightening
- Direct side guide and netting installation ensuring proper alignment and tension
- Oversee belt crew operations including belting and lacing installation on aligned conveyor sections
- Manage pneumatic/air systems installation including air connections to conveyor components, pressure testing, and leak verification
- Coordinate with the logistics and receiving team to ensure materials are inventoried, staged, and distributed to work zones on schedule
- Lead mechanical QC and commissioning activities including alignment verification, hardware inspections, and match-mark verification
- Oversee conveyor run-in testing, belt tracking verification, and belt tension checks
- Manage mechanical punch list identification and repair
- Verify IOQ checks and ensure all mechanical systems meet specifications before handoff to electrical teams
- Ensure proper match-marking of nuts/bolts to verify tightness across all connections
- Provide mechanical engineering expertise for automation initiatives across assigned sites
- Implement technical solutions and lead project-level decisions within the mechanical scope
- Follow and help develop mechanical installation standards and best practices
- Create and maintain technical documentation including work instructions, installation SOPs, and QC checklists
- Participate in design reviews and drive mechanical engineering excellence
- Recommend and implement process improvements to increase installation efficiency and quality
- Lead delivery of complex mechanical installation projects with multi-site impact
- Work cross-functionally with engineering, supply chain, and operations teams
- Coordinate with the electrical integration lead to ensure proper sequencing — mechanical work must be complete in each zone before electrical teams mobilize
- Manage relationships with mechanical vendors and partners
- Provide technical input to leadership for data-driven decision-making
- Drive achievement of safety, timeline, cost, and quality metrics across assigned zones
- Participate in daily business reviews with installation progress updates
Skills
- Experience in engineering including a supervisory role managing people
- Experience in a fast-paced, automated, industrial, logistics, production or manufacturing environment
- 7+ years of manufacturing or manufacturing engineering experience
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent work experience
- 5+ years of experience in industrial electrical installation, controls installation, automation deployment, or a similar technical environment
- Experience leading or supervising electrical device installation crews, controls technicians, or field execution teams
- Experience reading and interpreting device layout drawings, I/O lists, wiring diagrams, and control panel drawings
- Experience with low-voltage control systems including 24VDC circuits, field devices, sensors, VFDs, and industrial communication networks
- Experience working in fast-paced industrial, logistics, manufacturing, or automation environments
- Ability to travel up to 50% domestically; travel may exceed 50% in some instances with short notice
- Experience of automated equipment including packaging machinery, sortation and conveyor systems
- Experience in preventative maintenance systems
- Prior experience managing controls technicians, instrumentation technicians, device installers, or low-voltage electricians
- Prior experience working for a material handling integrator
- Prior experience installing devices and sensors for conveyor or sortation systems
- Experience with PLC I/O systems, fieldbus networks (Ethernet/IP, Profinet, EtherCAT, AS-i), and industrial communication infrastructure
- Experience with VFD configuration, motor parameter setting, and drive commissioning
- Experience with E-stop systems, safety device installation, and safety circuit validation
- Knowledge of AutoCAD Electrical, Bluebeam, BIM 360, or equivalent drawing review software
- Experience coordinating device installation with controls commissioning and PLC teams
- Experience with punch list management, I/O verification procedures, and turnover documentation
- Lean, Six Sigma, PMP, or related technical/project management certifications
Benefits
- Sign-on payments
- Restricted stock units (RSUs)
- Comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
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