Industrial Engineer, Amazon Leo
About The Position
Amazon Leo is an innovative program aiming to provide low-latency, high-speed internet to underserved populations across the globe through the deployment of a constellation of over 3000 satellites to Low Earth Orbit. As an Industrial Engineer for a Factory Team at Amazon Leo, you will be responsible for the analysis, solution definition, and continuous improvement of operational & industrial mechanisms & workflows at the site. You’ll be a key technical voice defining the layout of a 90,000 sq ft factory environment, ensuring layouts are fit for future scaling as well as optimized around minimum material movement. You will serve as a key lynchpin connecting operations, engineering, and logistical functions to ensure solutions reduce waste, improve yield, and have the practical result of more reliable, cost effective, production processes. You will leverage your expertise in industrial engineering & operational research to lead data collection, analysis, and modeling activities for key site level requirements like direct labor sizing, end-to-end cycle time assessments, etc. You’ll solve complex industrial challenges associated with balancing production velocity, exceptional quality, and cost competitive production concepts while ensuring smooth technical execution of current production operations. You’ll be a champion for lean manufacturing principles and continuous improvement projects, raising the bar on the quality of manufacturing solutions presented to the operations group.
Requirements
- Experience in capacity planning, operations planning, business analysis or equivalent
- Experience in process improvement/quality control tools and methods
- Advanced degree in one of the following fields: Industrial Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Physics OR equivalent experience
- 3+ years’ experience with SAP ERP system
- Experience with both low rate/NPI & full rate manufacturing processes
- Experience with developing, planning, and deploying work cell layouts in factory environment
- Familiarity with cleanroom operations
Nice To Haves
- Lean-Six Sigma Black Belt certification
- Experience with operations research concepts like Queueing theory, Transportation theory, etc.
Responsibilities
- Conceptualize, design, develop, and lead execution on work cell layouts throughout facility.
- Specify, lead, and develop analysis, and produce modeling, associated with labor, cycle time, headcount, and capex requirements for production processes.
- Contribute to development of standard ways of working across Kuiper for industrial engineering activities.
- Be a department subject matter expert in SAP ERP & MES systems.
- Collaborate on development, analyze, and optimize, factory improvement roadmaps, ensuring best effort/impact projects are selected for the business.
- Participate in drafting & development of Standard Operating Procedures for Operations Team partners.
Benefits
- 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
- sign-on payments
- restricted stock units (RSUs)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
