Manufacturing Quality Manager , Amazon Leo

Amazon • Redmond, WA

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About The Position

Amazon Leo is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission
is to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the
world, and we’ve designed the system with the capacity, flexibility, and
performance to serve a wide range of customers, from individual households to
schools, hospitals, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations
operating in locations without reliable connectivity.

Export Control Requirement:
Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S.
citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder),
or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum

As a Manager for Manufacturing Quality Engineering for a Line Replaceable unit
at Amazon Leo, you will be directly responsible for the production process
development, introduction, improvement, & maintenance of a key module on our
next generation spacecraft. You’ll be the leading technical voice for a team of
quality engineers working on the product, solving challenging technical problems
associated with delivering an ultra-high-performing optical, electrical, and
mechatronic module to space.

You will serve as a key lynchpin connection design/development, factory
operations, quality engineering, program management, and more as you drive the
manufacturing processes, we use from initial production introduction to full
rate production. You will leverage your expertise in Quality System and design
to partner with development on the design of future iterations of the system and
sub-assembly and our associated production test systems & tooling.

Requirements

• 2+ years of senior management and leadership responsibilities experience
• Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent
• 5+ years experience in large product assembly, quality engineering, manufacturing, or operations through a production lifecycle development
• 5+ years experience leading problem solving

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
• 5+ years of management, or 5+ years of senior leadership experience
• 5+ years experience with data analysis tools such as SQL, Python, Dashboard, KPI Tracking
• 5+ years experience in complex manufacturing process of mechanical and electrical assembly process PCBs, PCBA

Responsibilities

• Taking ownership of quality management system processes for satellite production
• Leading quality engineers, inspectors, and technicians in deployment of proactive QA measures alongside production demands
• Reporting metrics, coaching team members, and guiding QMS enhancements and improvements
• Coaching on Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) and Statistical Process Control (SPC) tools
• Drive improvement for yield improvement
• Daily leadership call for provide the updates for high severity issue
• Manage Production QE, Production QE and Quality Inspector team
• Lead the containment activity and root cause investigation for high severity to product and business.
• Leading root-cause corrective actions and participating in Material Review Board (MRB) activities.
• Manage the block stock inventory and lead the site to disposition the non conformance that found at incoming quality and warehouse block stock inventory.
• Provide coaching and lead process flow diagrams, PFMEAs, control plans, MSAs, SPC and other APQP artifacts to support continued high quality production.
• Support operations team directly by being a high solving power engineer, capable of bringing multiple diverging technical perspectives together in high pressure escalation moments such as quality containment.
• Working within an AS9100 (or similar) certified quality system
• Conduct rigorous Continuous Improvement activities to prevent recurrence of non-conformances during assembly.
• Implements the Leo's Quality System through process development and launch mechanisms.

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager