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Production Quality Manager, Amazon Leo

Amazon$151K — $204K *
Aerospace & Defense
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in large product assembly quality engineering, manufacturing, or operations throughout a production lifecycle development.
  • BS in Mechanical, Electrical, or Industrial Engineering or equivalent experience.
  • 2+ years in senior management and leadership roles.
  • Experience leading problem-solving initiatives for quality issues.
  • 5+ years in the involvement of production processes and lifecycle management.

Responsibilities

  • Own quality management system processes for satellite production.
  • Lead quality engineers and technicians in implementing proactive QA measures.
  • Report metrics and guide improvements in QMS.
  • Coach on APQP and SPC tools to enhance quality assurance.
  • Drive yield improvement initiatives across production.
  • Manage Production Quality Engineers and Inspectors to ensure adherence to quality standards.
  • Lead root-cause investigations and activities related to high severity quality issues.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision).
  • 401(k) matching.
  • Paid time off and parental leave.
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and mental health support.
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and adoption reimbursement coverage.
Full Job Description
As the Manufacturing Quality Manager 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.

Key job 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.

A day in the life

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.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years' experience in large product assembly quality engineering, manufacturing, or operations throughout a production lifecycle development.

- BS in Mechanical, Electrical or Industrial Engineering or equivalent experien

- 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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years of data analysis using tools such as Excel, Pivot Tables, SQL, Tableau, or equivalent experience

- MS in Mechanical, Electrical

- Experience in leading large team size ~30+

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.

USA, WA, Kirkland - 151,000.00 - 204,300.00 USD annually

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