Sr. Manufacturing Quality Engineer, AMZ Leo Quality Assurance
Summary
A senior manufacturing quality engineer on Amazon's Leo satellite broadband program owns the quality of critical satellite sub-assemblies in Redmond, WA — monitoring quality KPIs, leading defect investigations and MRB dispositions, and building PFMEAs, control plans and MSAs with cross-functional teams.
The Leo Manufacturing Quality Engineering team is driven to deliver high-quality product lines while maintaining a fast production rate. This position will join the team at an exciting moment, with an opportunity to directly own the quality outputs of some of our critical sub-systems
As a Sr. Mfg Quality Engineer, you will have the opportunity to own product performance for some of the most critical sub-assemblies of the satellite, delivering creative solutions to reduce defects, and planning to prevent defects using your technical quality competencies.
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
As a Manufacturing Quality Engineer (MQE), you will:
• Be accountable for the overall Quality of a critical satellite manufacturing value stream.
• Dive deep into problem solving activities and drive innovative solutions to prevent recurrence of defects.
• Work closely with Manufacturing, Production, Incoming Quality, Supplier Quality, and Engineering teams to evaluate existing processes, products, and systems, then drive solutions that perpetuate Amazon’s culture of Invent and Simplify.
• Be responsible for communicating, creating, and executing on cross-functional projects aimed to meet and exceed Leo’s Quality Key Process Indicator (KPI) targets.
• Collaborate with fellow MQEs and PSQEs to influence and improve mechanisms that affect the entire LEO business as a whole.
• Lead MRB, containment, and other quality discussions to determine product dispositions for nonconforming material.
• Harness Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to further streamline existing processes.
• Mentor developing talent and champion the creation of a collaborative culture in the overall Manufacturing Quality organization.
A day in the life
• Monitor KPIs on a regular and identify immediate and systemic process improvements to drive down overall quality defects
• Work closely with cross functional teams, develop and modify process flow diagrams, PFMEAs, control plans, MSAs, etc to support continued high quality production.
• Provide weekly and monthly updates to leadership on KPI progress and “path to green”
• Become an SME around LEO’s evolving products and processes.
• Drive continuous improvements across LEO
• Scale your learnings by creating processes and lasting mechanisms
• Drive business critical quality investigations with the assistance of Production Support Quality Engineers (PSQEs) and other LEO business partners
About the team
We are a tight knit group of Quality professionals with backgrounds from a diverse range of industries. We use our collective breadth of knowledge to uphold the Quality organization's dedication to continuous improvement and Delighting our Customers.