Sr. Manufacturing Tech. Mgr, Kuiper Customer Terminals

Sr. Manufacturing Tech. Mgr, Kuiper Customer Terminals

Project Kuiper is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low‑latency, high‑speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.

A Senior Manufacturing Technical Manager in the Kuiper Customer Terminal Engineering organization will understand customer desires, technology, and business opportunities to design and deliver Customer Terminals to a diverse set of Aviation customers. You will identify key problems and analyze multiple solutions while working cross‑functionally to produce the most power‑efficient, cost‑effective, technically advanced, lowest‑cost manufacturing assembly and test, and scalable Customer Terminal available in the market.

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.

• Identify and solve technical manufacturing assembly and testing challenges independently.
• Continuously improve internal design team standards to optimize for manufacturing assembly and testing.
• Collaborate with engineers, business development leaders, industrial design, customer terminal operations, and product integrity teams to provide technical updates to the manufacturing and assembly line for CT performance standardization.
• Lead projects with widespread impact on CT design, innovation, and implementation.
• Review business cases and analysis models with the business development team to ensure program viability.
• Decompose complex problems, distill underlying risks and benefits, and identify straightforward, actionable solutions that reduce risk.
• Work independently with frequent reviews with business, engineering, software, operations, and other stakeholders.
• Resolve escalations independently and facilitate the escalation of high‑impact issues to senior engineering and business leadership.
• Understand legacy and modern phase‑array antenna design for satellite systems and how to incorporate new innovations.

• 5+ years of technical product or program management experience.
• 7+ years of experience working directly with engineering teams.
• 5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams.
• Experience managing programs across cross‑functional teams, building processes, and coordinating release schedules.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent.
• 15+ years of experience in mass production consumer electronics or aviation.
• Experience in Design for Manufacture, Design for Test, Design for SMT, Design for Quality.

• 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, and critical path management experience.
• Experience managing projects across cross‑functional teams, building sustainable processes, and coordinating release schedules.
• Experience defining KPIs/SLA’s used to drive multi‑million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership.
• Proficient in the use of statistics (Cpk, Ppk, Design of Experiments, confidence level, correlation studies). Use of Mini Tab or JMP.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $128,600 per year in our lowest geographic market up to $213,600 per 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.

Depending 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 other benefits.