Amazon Leo is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the world, and we’ve designed the system with the capacity, flexibility, and performance to serve a wide range of customers, from individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.

***Working hours for this role are Mon-Fri ~3:30 PM to 12:00 PM***

We're hiring an Production Supervisor. This role includes direct responsibility for program management of planning, manufacturing, integration, and test of production value stream. This is a highly technical role requiring experience with integrated hardware and software as well as some appreciation for complex applications and manufacturing systems. Candidate superpowers should include bias for action, ownership, insist on high standards, stakeholder management, innovation, creating clarity out of ambiguity, and enabling productive collaboration across different organization.

Key job responsibilities
As an Production Supervisor, you will:

- Plant Production Leader M-F 2nd shift (3:30pm - 12:00pm)
- Work cross-functional to understand daily production requirements across multiple Value Streams
-Provide tactical and strategic direction to multiple teams
- Create processes to handle work order material discrepancies in production cells
- Coordinate scheduling and staging of materials/kits to production and test areas
- Track and move parts through production flow for timely delivery
- Drive execution across supply chain, planning and production teams
- Assess technical trades for innovation, speed, cost and stability in production roadmap
- Convert strategic goals into actionable project plans
- Develop tools and processes for operational excellence across production
- Own operational rhythms for production teams
- Identify manufacturing risks and develop mitigation strategies
- Execute strategic plan to deliver on production goals
- Support Production Rate Ramp roadmap execution
- Partner with teams on standardized approaches to enable growth
- Drive process standardization across supply chain and manufacturing
- Manage executive communications on operations status and risks
- Monitor and improve KPIs across operations
- Analyze production data to identify improvement opportunities

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.

A day in the life
This role will be supporting production of satellite operations across our facilities in Kirkland, WA. A typical day for this role will be working directly with production teams and value stream owners on plan execution and check process adherence. You will interact with various stakeholders including customers, suppliers, and internal teams.

About the team
Amazon Leo 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. To deliver these complex solutions, as the Senior Technical Program Manager you will partner with peers across all Leo teams, including hardware, software, supply chain, manufacturing, launch, facilities, finance, compliance, and HR.

Basic qualifications

- 3+ years of technical product or program management experience
- 3+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
- 3+ years of Manufacturing Leadership
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules

Preferred qualifications

- 3+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
- 2+ years of Software Development experience

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

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Kirkland - 137,300.00 - 185,700.00 USD annually

Production Supervisor - 2nd Shift, Amazon Leo - ProdOps