Spacecraft Quality Leader - APQP & SPC Expert

Amazon; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 151,000 - 204,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Leo is seeking a Production Quality Manager to own quality management for satellite production. You will lead a team of quality engineers, inspectors, and technicians, guiding QMS initiatives and APQP/SPC deployments to ensure ultra-high performance of a key space module.

Based in Kirkland, WA, you will collaborate with design, manufacturing, and program management to drive continuous improvement, lead root-cause investigations, and ensure compliance with AS9100 standards.

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 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

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.

Skills

Quality leadership

APQP

SPC

Root cause

Production quality

Manufacturing

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

MS in Mechanical or Electrical

Tools

Excel

Pivot Tables

SQL

Tableau

Job description

Amazon Leo is seeking a Production Quality Manager to own quality management for satellite production. You will lead a team of quality engineers, inspectors, and technicians, guiding QMS initiatives and APQP/SPC deployments to ensure ultra-high performance of a key space module.

Based in Kirkland, WA, you will collaborate with design, manufacturing, and program management to drive continuous improvement, lead root-cause investigations, and ensure compliance with AS9100 standards.