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DESCRIPTION

Project Kuiper 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.

The Kuiper Quality team is looking for an exceptional Senior Supplier Quality Technical Program Manager to join our team and drive operational improvements across our program. This role will engage directly with Supply Chain, ProdOps, Engineering, Manufacturing Quality etc. to establish and optimize quality system mechanisms that deliver high-performance satellite components and sub-assemblies at unprecedented volume. We’re looking for someone who is passionate about continuous improvement: you love streamlining processes and you love sharing your approach with others. You use data to identify process defects and drive improvements at scale. You enjoy launching programs from the ground up and are at your best when you are inspiring others to drive improvements in their areas every day.


Key job responsibilities
- Working across the Kuiper organization and partnering with other Amazon teams to drive improvement in the Kuiper Supplier Quality. This may include identifying pain points, developing KPIs, facilitating process improvement activities, and driving business change.
- Driving process standardization and adoption across the Kuiper Supply Chain, including planning, initiating and managing process changes.
- Using visual tools (value stream mapping, spaghetti diagrams, etc.) to map processes.
- Creating robust metrics and analyzing large data sets to enable data-driven decision-making at the executive level. Applying lean thinking and data-driven performance management to eliminate waste and drive process stability.
- Serving as a subject matter expert for Lean, Six Sigma, and Operational Excellence, sharing your knowledge with employees ranging from associates to senior leadership.
- Optimize supplier quality mechanisms for supplier performance improvement and meeting quality and production goals
- Foster a culture of quality, improvement and learning with Kuiper


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 is an individual contributor and is the Sr. TPM within Kuiper's Supplier Quality organization. This role must identify and solve problems within a supply chain while coaching teams and developing mechanisms to consistently deliver high-quality products.

You will be challenged with solving problems that have never been tackled before at scale. We guarantee that you will get to work some of the smartest people in the industry, learn a lot, have fun and have the chance to positively impact the life of millions of people.

About the team
Kuiper Quality’s mission is to ensure that our supply chain, manufacturing and launch operations build, deliver and launch high-quality satellite infrastructure that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.