• 10 years of experience in hardware engineering, manufacturing or operations, throughout the product life cycle from concept to EOL
• 7 years of experience leading technical teams
• 5 years of experience in a supplier or manufacturing quality role in aerospace or other highly regulated industries
• Experience with APQP, PPAP, FMEA and FAI processes

Have you ever wanted to be part of a team who is building industry changing technology? Amazon’s Project Kuiper is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband network connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.
The Kuiper team is seeking a people-first, data-driven manager to lead its Supplier Quality Engineering group. We are looking for someone with a strong technical background in mechanical systems, including machined parts, electrical-mechanical systems, assemblies, optics, and harnesses. This individual will lead a team responsible for defining requirements and implementing processes to deliver aerospace quality at unprecedented scale. The ideal candidate has passion for building processes with excellent analytical abilities, technical skills, and effective written and verbal communication. Most importantly, we are seeking someone excited by the challenge of owning a supplier base responsible for producing high-quality, mission-critical hardware in volume production.
Key job responsibilities

• Own and lead Kuiper supplier quality management activities for Mechanical Systems including requirements definition, qualification, production process validation, receiving/source inspection, CAPA, metrics reporting, and continuous improvement
• Manage a technical team of highly talented supplier quality engineers and inspectors
• Establish and monitor supplier mechanisms for production process control, non-conformance management and CAPA
• Establish a data-driven mindset within your team using supplier quality metrics to run daily/weekly operating rhythms
• Guide product development teams on supplier selection, assessment, audit and development decisions
• Interface with Kuiper supply chain and manufacturing stakeholders on quality management processes and supplier performance metrics
• Partner with manufacturing quality team to build a cohesive Kuiper Quality System in compliance with AS9100 & IS09001
• Be a subject matter expert in the disciplines of aerospace quality management
• Influence supplier selection and investment decisions to reduce risk and improve delivered quality
• Present written narrative documents outlining team strategies and performance
• Travel as needed to accomplish program objectives

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.
A day in the life
The Kuiper Supplier Quality team is driven to develop a vendor base capable of scaling aerospace quality to new volume and cost levels in order to meet end customer needs. This position will lead the mechanical systems team at an exciting moment with the opportunity to own quality system processes, metrics and performance across a large supplier base. His role will build a team that values data driven decision making, comfort with ambiguity across multiple simultaneous projects, ability to earn the trust of our key stakeholders, and deliver results without sacrificing integrity.
About the team
Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. Amazon has ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.
At Amazon, our mission is to be the most customer-centric company on Earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright and driven people. We're dedicated to supporting new team members. Our team has a broad mix of experience levels and Amazon tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Redmond, WA, USA

• 5 years of experience with aerospace materials and hardware
• 5 years of experience in metals/composites fabrication and inspection
• Expert at GD&T, ASME Y14.5 and machined part inspection processes
• Effective written and verbal communicator

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $120,800/year in our lowest geographic market up to $234,900/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. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.