Amazon Robotics – Program Manager (PM) Summer Intern Amazon Jobs – North Reading, MA

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Job summary
Are you inspired by invention? Is problem solving through teamwork in your DNA? Do you like the idea of seeing how your work impacts the bigger picture? Answer yes to any of these and you’ll fit right in here at Amazon Robotics. We are a smart team of doers who work passionately to apply cutting edge advances in robotics and software to solve real-world challenges that will transform our customers’ experiences. We invent new improvements every day. We are Amazon Robotics and we will give you the tools and support you need to invent with us in ways that are rewarding, fulfilling, and fun.

Amazon.com empowers a smarter, faster, more consistent customer experience through automation. Amazon Robotics automates fulfillment center operations using various methods of robotic technology including autonomous mobile robots, sophisticated control software, language perception, power management, computer vision, depth sensing, machine learning, object recognition, and semantic understanding of commands. Amazon Robotics has a dedicated focus on research and development to continuously explore new opportunities to extend its product lines into new areas.

Amazon Robotics is seeking a talented and motivated student to join our Amazon Robotics as Program Manager Intern for a Summer Internship assignment.

This role is a 3 month internship to join Amazon Robotics full time (40 hours/week) from May 22, 2023 – August 25, 2023. This Amazon Robotics PM Summer Internship opportunity will be based out of North Reading, MA.

The candidate will have the opportunity work with senior program management and Science Research staff to deliver updates to existing products as well as new mechanisms, modules and systems. The ideal candidate has strong engineering aptitude, organization and communication skills, enjoys problem solving and can potentially handle multiple parallel tasks.

Key job responsibilities

• Manage one large, or multiple smaller projects in product development or engineering sustainment
• Project size and quantity is dependent upon candidate comfort level as well as business project priority at the time of hire
• Interface with all engineering disciplines to deliver project requirements
• Work with science research, supply chain, manufacturing, manufacturing engineering, and test engineering to implement engineering changes into production
• Leverage and develop project management skills including
• Development of project schedules using MS Project, or other chart tool of choice
• Leverage the agile scrum methodology
• Manage a risk register, including identifying, assessing and mitigating risks
• Develop payback models for new product features as required
• Bi-weekly project status reporting to leadership team
• Opportunities for process improvement related to management of sustaining projects and activities

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Enrolled in a Bachelor’s degree or MBA and is interested in project and/or program management, may have an interest in pursuing an MBA, or has interest in engineering management
• Must be eligible and available for a full-time (40h / week) 3-month internship between May/June, 2023 to August/September, 2023
• Graduation is December 2023 or later

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Preferred familiarity with MS Project (or other equivalent Gantt chart tools and/or Agile Scrum methodology
• The candidate should have completed at least 1 internship or co-op in the project management field.