Manager, Supply Eng, Prime Air

Position: Manager, Supply Base Eng, Prime Air
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How do you get items to customers quickly, cost-effectively, and-most importantly-safely, in less than an hour? And how do you do it in a way that can scale? Our teams of hundreds of scientists, engineers, aerospace professionals, and futurists have been working hard to do just that! We are delivering to customers, and are excited for what's to come. Check out more information about Prime Air on the About Amazon blog ().
If you are seeking an iterative environment where you can drive innovation, apply state-of-the-art technologies to solve real world delivery challenges, and provide benefits to customers, Prime Air is the place for you.
Come work on the Amazon Prime Air Team!

We're looking for an outstanding Manager, Supply Base Manufacturing Engineering who combines superb technical and analytical capabilities with a demonstrated ability to get the right things done quickly and effectively. We're looking for people who innovate and love solving hard problems. You will work hard, have fun, and of course, make history!

As a Manager, Supply Base Manufacturing Engineering at Amazon Prime Air, you will be at the forefront enabling Amazon's future delivery system. You will be leading a technical team of supply base manufacturing engineers, developing and scaling Prime Air's manufacturing supplier network. You and the team will develop engagement models with suppliers, establish mechanisms that help identify supplier manufacturing issues, support root cause analysis and process improvement.

You are a learner and doer at heart, who continuously engages across business, technical and operational teams to achieve amazing outcomes.

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Key job responsibilities

• Become an Amazon Prime Air product and manufacturing expert

• Lead non-recurring supplier projects through the entire lifecycle from design, prototype to production, including onsite support for new product introductions and design/process development

• Lead the supplier manufacturing capability assessments and onsite audits to support Prime Air's supplier selection process

• Develop mechanisms to improve and enhance supply base manufacturing engineering performance

• Manage and coordinate product development and product launches between Prime Air and its supplier network

• Collaborate with Prime Air's manufacturing supplier network to implement instrumentation to monitor manufacturing processes

• Responsible for supplier sustaining activities, including change management, design/process improvements and root cause analysis

• Track and communicate project performance on qualitative and quantitative measures

• Lead and develop a team of 8 to 10 experienced Supply Base Engineers and manage the projects with goals, schedules and respective reporting to implement corrective actions as required.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

- 7+ years of new hardware products development experience
- 7+ years of engineering team management experience
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field
- Experience in engineering team management
- Experience in new hardware product development
- Experience in DFx (cost, test, manufacturing)

- Experience with the project management of technical projects

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

- Master's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Power Engineering, or a related field
- Experience developing products for large volume production
- Experience managing teams of 8+ engineers
- 5+ years of manufacturing, process, industrial engineering experience

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