Lead Propulsion Technician, Amazon Leo GNC & Propulsion

Job  | Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC

Amazon Leo is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite network. Our mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet connectivity to customers beyond the reach of existing networks. From individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, and government agencies, Amazon Leo will serve people and organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.

The Propulsion Lead Technician will be a key member of Amazon Leo’s Propulsion Manufacturing team, combining deep technical expertise with strong collaborative skills. The success of Amazon Leo depends on the quality, reliability, cost, manufacturability, throughput, and security of the products that you deliver. If you seek a fast‑paced, dynamic environment; if you thrive on solving difficult problems where resolutions have high impact;

and if you love the challenge of building something from scratch, then this role will be an ideal next career step. To be successful you need to be highly motivated and detail oriented while showing the highest standards of execution.

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

Leading and supervising manufacturing teams in satellite production environment

Troubleshooting complete technical issues with both enterprise system and production hardware

Ensuring manufacturing processes meet quality and safety standard

Support new-hire training programs and contributing to development and modification of training programs

Managing production schedule and timelines for daily delivery goals

Coordinating across multiple teams within department (engineering, quality, supply chain)

Lead daily team meeting, end‑of‑shift reporting, and coordinating efforts to minimize production interruptions

Implementing process improvements and optimizations across department

Follow clean room protocols and procedures

Perform and execute complex assembly builds or test while maintaining high standards

Creating and maintaining technical documents

A Day in the Life
The Lead MFG Technician will identify process improvements to improve build efficiency. You will work closely with multiple engineering teams on both early hardware development and setting the stage for later production hardware manufacturing processes. The successful candidate thrives in a fast paced, start‑up like environment and are able to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills and commitment to quality to positively impact team metrics and organization goals.

To be successful you need to be highly motivated and detail oriented while showing the highest standards of execution.

About the Team
We are a group of Technicians with well over 20 years of diverse skills and experience. Each team member brings in willingness to train and positive team energy. Some tasks you may be an individual contributor, but may also work in a group environment to achieve organizational goals. This group of Technicians thrived in success by working as a team. We are currently in research and development but moving towards production environment.

Basic Qualifications

4+ years of technical work experience

4+ years of electrical or mechanical experience

High school or equivalent diploma

4+ years of hand on experience with precision torque, measurement and inspection devices (i.e., automated and manual torque wrenches, calipers, micrometers, profilometers, optical inspection devices, multi‑meters, torque wrenches)

Preferred Qualifications

Experience bringing teams and processes from development to production

Ability to work effectively in a team environment

Ability to rapidly change roles/responsibilities while working in a high‑paced, challenging work environment

Experience working with FOD, ESD sensitive hardware and clean room requirements

1+ years experience leading technicians in a manufacturing environment

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