Amazon Solar Array Production Operations Manager Project Kuiper 

United States, Washington, Kirkland 

794913623

As a Production Operations Manager within Project Kuiper, you will assist with assembly and testing of solar array components, subassemblies, mechanisms and arrays. You will report directly to the Value Stream Leader and will own the Value Streams KPI performance. Your team consists of supervisors, technicians, schedulers, and production coordinators who are directly responsible for production output. To be successful in this role you will create the foundational production system standards and processes needed to achieve rate production. Safety and product quality are paramount. As Kuiper's production system scales, your responsibilities will include stabilizing the work content while aggressively leading process improvement efforts to increase production output.Key job responsibilities- Create a culture of safety and quality through active engagement and leadership of the technician workforce.- Drive operational excellence with a combination of data analytics and Lean operations.
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A day in the life
The Production Operations Manager will lead production rate increases in Kuiper's new full rate production facility. They will lead the manufacturing engineering team in identifying production bottlenecks and implementing improvements. The successful candidate has extensive operations experience and a thorough understanding of aerospace/space hardware manufacturing processes. They will own the daily operating rhythm of the technician team, creating and reporting on KPI's to the Value Stream Leader. This is a fast-paced, intellectually challenging position working with leaders in multiple technology areas. You’ll have relentlessly high standards for yourself and everyone you work with, and you’ll be constantly looking for ways to improve your product’s performance, quality and cost. This is a leadership role for a highly collaborative individual that combines superb technical and analytical capabilities to optimize precision manufacturing procedures.

- 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 3+ years of software development experience
- 5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules

- 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
- Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership