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Process Design Engineer jobs with green card sponsorship are available through employers who file PERM labor certification with DOL, then petition USCIS via I-140 for EB-2 or EB-3 classification. Roles designing industrial systems, optimizing manufacturing workflows, and scaling chemical or mechanical processes regularly qualify under both categories.
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Quick Commerce Process Design is looking for an innovative, solutions-oriented Process Design Engineer to help build the operational processes and standards behind Amazon's next-generation, sub-30-minute delivery network. Do you want a high level of ownership in solving complex, undefined problems? Does the challenge of designing processes and small-format, temperature-controlled fulfillment sites, from the ground up, with no legacy playbook, appeal to you? If so, we have the job for you!
We're looking to add high-impact engineers to our team. In this role, you'll collaborate with internal teams, operations, and external vendors to define, standardize, and document the processes that QC sites run on, and translate them into clean, design-ready inputs for building-design teams. Your work will span a variety of site concepts and template-based design solutions across ambient, chilled, and frozen operations. You'll work alongside a highly skilled, highly engaged team in a fast-paced and often ambiguous greenfield environment.
Key job responsibilities
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Develop Process & Material Handling design solutions for QC sites such as process design, material flow, equipment specification, and site layout by supporting modern operations running 24/7.
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Define, standardize, and document operational processes into repeatable modules and design-ready inputs (requirements, volumes/rates, adjacencies, constraints) that building-design teams consume.
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Collaborate with internal teams, external vendors, and stakeholders, including Operations, WHS, and Ergonomics, to produce high-quality, cost-effective solutions on tight timelines.
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Manage multiple projects and tasks concurrently, communicating and coordinating effectively with internal partners, contractors, and vendors.
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Apply data-driven analysis (throughput, rate, capacity, utilization) to evaluate design options and support decisions with clear cost, efficiency, and scalability tradeoffs.
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Partner with Operations to identify pain points, discover problems, and surface improvement opportunities across the value chain.
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Communicate technical solutions and recommendations clearly to partners and leadership.
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Up to 50% travel requirement to visit sites and support projects.
A day in the life
You start your morning with a briefing from your AI assistant, a snapshot pulled from the information sources you've built, surfacing the latest from operations, your ongoing projects, and progress against long-term goals. With priorities clear, you move into deep work: producing high-quality process packages, such as SOPs, policy documents, flow diagrams, and value stream maps, that become the standard sites run on.
Mid-morning, you partner with the tech team to reconcile your time-study and ergonomics findings against real-world data through a dashboard you're building with actual cycle times, error rates, process yield, and DPMO. From there, you shift to a site working on new equipment designed to improve ergonomics and eliminate safety incidents. In the afternoon, you join operations, supply chain, and WHS to shape the process design behind a new initiative.
You close the day by reviewing an AI-generated summary from your project-management systems for the input for next week's leadership business review and prepare for your business trip to the next site to observe, learn, and get feedback from operations.
You move fluidly between hands-on design, data analysis, cross-functional collaboration, and the standards work that scales across the network.
About the team
The Quick Commerce (QC) Process Design team defines, standardizes, and maintains the operational processes and standards behind Amazon's sub-30-minute delivery network. We own the full lifecycle of a process from diagnosing operational problems, to designing and standardizing the solution, to shaping it into clean, design-ready inputs that building-design teams build from, to maintaining and improving it as the network scales.
Through this ownership, we create standardized, repeatable process and module definitions, spanning ambient, chilled, and frozen operations, that drive efficiency, safety, and speed across the QC network.
Our dedication to standardization and continuous improvement sets the benchmark for how a new, fast-growing quick-commerce business operates by supporting Amazon's commitment to operational excellence and exceptional customer service.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in industrial or manufacturing engineering
- 3+ years of industrial engineer, operations engineer, manufacturing engineer, or project engineer in a manufacturing environment experience
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office products and applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Visio, and MS Project) at an advanced level
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Knowledge of AutoCAD, VBA, and SQL at the intermediate level
- Experience with Six Sigma tools and Lean techniques
- Experience communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences
- Experience with retrofits, launches, or automation deployments
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers 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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
LOCATION
USA, WA, Bellevue - 82,700.00 - 114,900.00 USD annually
DESCRIPTION
Quick Commerce Process Design is looking for an innovative, solutions-oriented Process Design Engineer to help build the operational processes and standards behind Amazon's next-generation, sub-30-minute delivery network. Do you want a high level of ownership in solving complex, undefined problems? Does the challenge of designing processes and small-format, temperature-controlled fulfillment sites, from the ground up, with no legacy playbook, appeal to you? If so, we have the job for you!
We're looking to add high-impact engineers to our team. In this role, you'll collaborate with internal teams, operations, and external vendors to define, standardize, and document the processes that QC sites run on, and translate them into clean, design-ready inputs for building-design teams. Your work will span a variety of site concepts and template-based design solutions across ambient, chilled, and frozen operations. You'll work alongside a highly skilled, highly engaged team in a fast-paced and often ambiguous greenfield environment.
Key job responsibilities
-
Develop Process & Material Handling design solutions for QC sites such as process design, material flow, equipment specification, and site layout by supporting modern operations running 24/7.
-
Define, standardize, and document operational processes into repeatable modules and design-ready inputs (requirements, volumes/rates, adjacencies, constraints) that building-design teams consume.
-
Collaborate with internal teams, external vendors, and stakeholders, including Operations, WHS, and Ergonomics, to produce high-quality, cost-effective solutions on tight timelines.
-
Manage multiple projects and tasks concurrently, communicating and coordinating effectively with internal partners, contractors, and vendors.
-
Apply data-driven analysis (throughput, rate, capacity, utilization) to evaluate design options and support decisions with clear cost, efficiency, and scalability tradeoffs.
-
Partner with Operations to identify pain points, discover problems, and surface improvement opportunities across the value chain.
-
Communicate technical solutions and recommendations clearly to partners and leadership.
-
Up to 50% travel requirement to visit sites and support projects.
A day in the life
You start your morning with a briefing from your AI assistant, a snapshot pulled from the information sources you've built, surfacing the latest from operations, your ongoing projects, and progress against long-term goals. With priorities clear, you move into deep work: producing high-quality process packages, such as SOPs, policy documents, flow diagrams, and value stream maps, that become the standard sites run on.
Mid-morning, you partner with the tech team to reconcile your time-study and ergonomics findings against real-world data through a dashboard you're building with actual cycle times, error rates, process yield, and DPMO. From there, you shift to a site working on new equipment designed to improve ergonomics and eliminate safety incidents. In the afternoon, you join operations, supply chain, and WHS to shape the process design behind a new initiative.
You close the day by reviewing an AI-generated summary from your project-management systems for the input for next week's leadership business review and prepare for your business trip to the next site to observe, learn, and get feedback from operations.
You move fluidly between hands-on design, data analysis, cross-functional collaboration, and the standards work that scales across the network.
About the team
The Quick Commerce (QC) Process Design team defines, standardizes, and maintains the operational processes and standards behind Amazon's sub-30-minute delivery network. We own the full lifecycle of a process from diagnosing operational problems, to designing and standardizing the solution, to shaping it into clean, design-ready inputs that building-design teams build from, to maintaining and improving it as the network scales.
Through this ownership, we create standardized, repeatable process and module definitions, spanning ambient, chilled, and frozen operations, that drive efficiency, safety, and speed across the QC network.
Our dedication to standardization and continuous improvement sets the benchmark for how a new, fast-growing quick-commerce business operates by supporting Amazon's commitment to operational excellence and exceptional customer service.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in industrial or manufacturing engineering
- 3+ years of industrial engineer, operations engineer, manufacturing engineer, or project engineer in a manufacturing environment experience
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office products and applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Visio, and MS Project) at an advanced level
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Knowledge of AutoCAD, VBA, and SQL at the intermediate level
- Experience with Six Sigma tools and Lean techniques
- Experience communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences
- Experience with retrofits, launches, or automation deployments
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers 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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
LOCATION
USA, WA, Bellevue - 82,700.00 - 114,900.00 USD annually
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as a Process Design Engineer
Match your degree to EB-2 requirements
EB-2 covers advanced-degree professionals or those with a bachelor's plus five years of progressive experience. If your process engineering degree is from outside the U.S., get a credential evaluation before your employer files PERM so there are no surprises at the I-140 stage.
Use O*NET to anchor your job description
PERM requires a detailed job description tied to real duties, not a generic posting. Pull the O*NET profile for Process Design Engineers to align your employer's written requirements with DOL-recognized tasks, reducing the risk of a PERM audit or denial.
Find sponsors through Migrate Mate before applying
Target employers who have an established PERM filing history in process engineering. Migrate Mate lists employers with verified green card sponsorship history, so you can focus your applications on companies already familiar with the EB-2 and EB-3 process for technical roles.
Check prevailing wage before salary negotiations
Your employer must pay at least the DOL-determined prevailing wage for your occupation and location before PERM is filed. Run the OFLC Wage Search for Process Design Engineer roles in your target metro before you negotiate an offer, so your expected salary aligns with what DOL will certify.
Ask employers about their PERM recruitment timeline
PERM requires documented recruitment before DOL certifies the application. Ask hiring managers whether they've completed or are ready to run the mandatory advertising steps, since delays in recruitment can push your priority date back by months and affect your place in the per-country queue.
Understand AC21 portability before you switch jobs
If you change employers after your I-485 has been pending 180 days or more, AC21 job portability lets you keep your priority date if the new role is in the same or a similar occupation. Confirm the similarity of duties in writing with your new employer before you resign.
Green Card Process Design Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
Do Process Design Engineer roles typically qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship?
Most Process Design Engineer positions qualify for EB-2 if they require an advanced degree or a bachelor's degree plus five years of progressive experience in a relevant field such as chemical, mechanical, or industrial engineering. Roles that require only a bachelor's degree and standard industry experience often fall under EB-3. Your employer's PERM labor certification filing will specify which category applies based on the stated minimum requirements for the position.
How is green card sponsorship different from H-1B sponsorship for a Process Design Engineer?
H-1B visa is a temporary nonimmigrant status capped at 85,000 annually and subject to a lottery. Green card sponsorship through EB-2 or EB-3 leads to lawful permanent residence with no lottery, but requires PERM labor certification filed with DOL, a prevailing wage determination, documented recruitment, and an I-140 petition filed with USCIS. Per-country numerical limits mean nationals from high-demand countries can face significant priority-date backlogs before their I-485 can be adjudicated.
How do I find employers willing to sponsor a green card for a Process Design Engineer?
Search Migrate Mate to identify employers with verified green card sponsorship history in engineering roles. Focusing on companies that have already navigated PERM and I-140 filings for similar positions means you're targeting employers familiar with the costs and timelines involved, which significantly increases your chances of receiving a sponsorship commitment during the offer stage.
What does the PERM process look like for a Process Design Engineer role?
Your employer starts by obtaining a prevailing wage determination from DOL using the OFLC Wage Search for your specific occupation and work location. They then conduct mandatory recruitment, including job postings and documented outreach, to demonstrate no qualified U.S. workers are available. After recruitment closes, they file the PERM application with DOL. Once certified, your employer files an I-140 petition with USCIS, establishing your priority date in the EB-2 or EB-3 preference category.
Can I change employers during the green card process without losing my place in line?
Once your I-485 adjustment of status application has been pending for 180 days or more and your underlying I-140 was approved, AC21 job portability allows you to move to a new employer in the same or a similar occupation without losing your priority date. If you change before 180 days, your I-485 is generally at risk. Separately, if the original I-140 was already approved, your priority date can often be carried over to a new employer's fresh I-140 petition.