Cost Engineering Manager, Cost Engineering

About This Role

This technically demanding role involves delivering equipment cost engineering and value engineering services to optimize equipment design, validate costs, and inform capital investment decisions across Amazon's fulfillment network. You will partner with Amazon's North America Engineering, Design, and Operations stakeholders, developing bottom-up cost estimates, should-cost models, and Value Engineering analyses for a diverse portfolio of material handling equipment, automation, and auxiliary equipment.

Responsibilities

• Deliver independent, bottom-up cost estimates for material handling equipment, automation, auxiliary equipment, and capital investment projects across Amazon's global fulfillment portfolio, spanning retrofit, expansion, new-build, automation, and equipment deployment initiatives
• Develop cost estimates from early-stage equipment concepts through supplier selection and implementation, adapting methodologies and analytical depth to available project information and design maturity
• Build and maintain scalable estimating models and templates while developing detailed bottom-up cost models for complex, site-specific initiatives requiring advanced analytical judgment
• Perform should-cost modeling, benchmarking, and Value Engineering analyses to evaluate equipment design alternatives, optimize specifications, identify cost drivers, and ensure Amazon is buying the right solution at the right price
• Leverage AI-powered tools to automate data gathering, cost modeling, benchmarking, and pattern recognition while applying engineering judgment to validate outputs and resolve complex or ambiguous equipment scopes
• Drive the development of scalable AI-enabled cost intelligence solutions by curating equipment and market data, validating model performance, and identifying opportunities to automate routine analytical activities
• Partner with Engineering, Design, Operations, Procurement, Category Management, and business stakeholders to validate assumptions, communicate cost risks, evaluate alternatives, and influence sourcing and investment decisions
• Peer review cost models, estimates, and Value Engineering recommendations to ensure technical rigor, consistency, and alignment with current market conditions and best practices

Requirements

• 3+ years of project/program management experience
• 3+ years of working cross functionally with non-tech teams experience
• 3+ years of defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics experience
• Knowledge of Excel (Pivot Tables, VLookUps) at an advanced level and SQL
• Experience defining and executing program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements
• Experience in cost engineering, value engineering, equipment engineering, manufacturing engineering, automation, material handling equipment, capital projects, or related technical disciplines, including roles such as Cost Engineer, Value Engineer, Equipment Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, Electrical Engineer, Manufacturing Engineer, Automation Engineer, Design Engineer, Systems Engineer, or other related technical cost, engineering, and value management roles