Sr. Manufacturing Tech. Mgr, Kuiper Customer Terminals

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Description
Project Kuiper is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.

A Senior Manufacturing Technical Manager in the Kuiper Customer Terminal Engineering organization will understand customer desires, technology, and business opportunities to design and deliver Customer Terminals to a diverse set of Aviation customers.

You understand key problems and analyze multiple solutions working cross functionally to produce the most power efficient, cost effective, technically advanced, lowest cost manufacturing assembly and test, and scalable Customer Terminal available in the market.

A Senior Manufacturing Technical Manager provides the global vision, rationale, and recommendations to leadership teams for challenging technical issues related to Customer Terminal manufacturing while working on continually improving manufacturing assembly and test each year.

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.

Key job responsibilities
Amazon's vision is to be the world's most customer-centric company, and this role is key to that vision.

As a Senior Manufacturing Technical Manager, you will be leading projects to ever-evolving customer needs for the continual development and innovation of Customer Terminals.
As an ideal candidate:

• You are able to identify and solve technical manufacturing assembly and testing challenges independently.
• You are responsible for continual improvement of internal design team standards to optimize for manufacturing assembly and testing.
• Working with a team of engineers, business development leaders, industrial design, customer terminal operations, and product integrity, you are responsible for technical updates manufacturing and assembly line to drive CT performance standardization.
• You lead projects with widespread impact on CT design, innovation and implementation.
• You demonstrate ability to review business cases and analysis models with the business development team ensuring viability of program.
• You decompose complex problems and distill underlying risks and benefits, and identify straightforward and actionable solutions to reduce risk.
• You work independently and have frequent reviews with business, engineering, software, operations and others.
• You understand which escalations to resolve independently, and actively facilitate the escalation of high-impact issues to senior engineering and business leadership.
• You understand the key aspects of legacy and modern phase array antenna design for satellite systems and how to incorporate new innovations.

About the team
Kuiper is focused on providing broadband access to under served customers across the world.

We are passionate about accomplishing this mission as quickly as possible without sacrificing quality or performance.

We are constantly solving new problems and embrace people who thrive in a startup like environment and have an entrepreneurial mindset.

Every day brings new challenges to Kuiper.

In the morning, you may be working on the technology roadmap for the next five years and in the afternoon diving deep on a technical issue delaying a build.

The ability to set priorities using high value judgement is a must in the role as you will have independence on focus on what you deem is critical to the organization.

Basic Qualifications
- 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent
- 15+ years of experience in either mass production consumer electronics or aviation Experience in Design for Manufacture, Design for Test, Design for SMT, Design for Quality.
Preferred Qualifications
- 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
- Proficient in the use for statics (Cpk, Ppk, Design of Experiments, confidence level, correlation studies).

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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.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets.

The base pay for this position ranges from $133,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $231,400/year in our highest geographic market.

Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Amazon is a total compensation company.

Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.

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This position will remain posted until filled.

Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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