Senior Manufacturing Process Excellence Lead

Amazon

Bellevue (WA)

On-site

USD 180,000 - 243,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC seeks a Principal, Manufacturing Process Engineer to diagnose and frame manufacturing problems upstream, define minimum viable solutions, and hand off clear packages to PMO for execution. You will collaborate with Manufacturing Ops, Warehouse Ops, Transportation, and Finance leaders to deliver measurable improvements.

You will lead root-cause analysis, define requirements, and produce structured problem statements and acceptance criteria to enable

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or above in Engineering, Operations, or Business Administration.
10+ years in manufacturing or supply chain operations or consulting.
7+ years in discrete manufacturing environments diagnosing problems.
5+ years conducting structured problem assessment and requirements definition.
5+ years in consulting or diagnostic roles focusing on problem framing and solution recommendations.
Experience entering ambiguous situations and producing structured problem statements and specs.
Experience facilitating cross-functional workshops and stakeholder interviews.
Experience with ERP-enabled manufacturing processes (SAP PP/QM/MM/EWM/TM) for feasibility assessments.
Lean/Six Sigma/A3/TOC or equivalent.

Responsibilities

Investigate operational issues reported by manufacturing floor leaders, warehouse managers, logistics planners, and supply chain managers.
Conduct structured root cause analysis using observation, data analysis, system tracing, and stakeholder interviews.
Assess business impact: quantify cost, throughput, quality, and compliance implications.
Define clear problem boundaries and elicit business/functional requirements.
Document requirements with specificity for backlog items: context, specs, acceptance criteria, constraints, dependencies.
Partner with leadership to generate candidate solution approaches and define the Minimum Viable Solution.
Produce acceptance criteria for unambiguous validation of delivery.
Create handoff packages with problem statements, analyses, stakeholder maps, requirements, MVS, acceptance, risks, and priority rationale.
Brief PMO on problem, solution, and context for planning.
Build trusted relationships with ops, warehouse, transport, and finance to surface issues early.