Amazon Sr Mfg Quality Engineer Project Kuiper 

United States, Washington, Kirkland 

948926613

As a Sr. Mfg Quality Engineer, you will have the opportunity to own product performance for some of the most critical sub-assemblies of the satellite, delivering creative solutions to reduce defects, and planning to prevent defects using technical quality skills.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
- Lead as Product QE over satellite mechanism assemblies, including process definition and validation for assembly and test methods, part and process qualification, inspection plans, in-process inspection capabilities, and process monitoring.
- Lead MRB discussions determine product dispositions for nonconforming material.
- Dive deep into defect reduction activities for the mechanisms subassemblies, and drive innovative solutions to prevent recurrence of defects.- Be a Quality SME for the mechanisms sub-assemblies, owning defect reduction, reporting, and overall quality performance of the mechanism subassemblies, including electromechanical hardware, high cleanliness/FOD sensitivity, tight tolerance & high precision machined parts, high criticality attributesA day in the life
- Own yield performance for the mechanisms subassemblies, setting up monitoring systems using production data, and leading projects to creatively deliver solutions to recurring issues in production
- Investigates Production System issues to reduce defect rates and drive root cause corrective actions, and continuous improvement projects
- Implements the Kuiper Quality System through process development and launch mechanisms across teams similar to AS9100 requirements
- Own and report out on product performance to quality and manufacturing leadership.
- Partners with cross-functional groups to develop and qualify product, processes, and equipment, including Quality Assurance processes
- Perform audits to ensure compliance to QMS and product requirements.
- Develop and modify process flow diagrams, PFMEAs, control plans, MSAs, and other APQP artifacts related to satellite mechanisms.

- Experience in developing functional specifications, design verification plans and functional test procedures
- 5+ years as quality engineer owning performance over high precision assemblies in aerospace applications