Sr. Manufacturing Tech. Mgr, Amazon Leo Customer Terminals

Amazon Leo is Amazons low Earth orbit satellite network. Our mission is to deliver fast reliable internet connectivity to customers beyond the reach of existing networks. From individual households to schools hospitals businesses and government agencies Amazon Leo will serve people and organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.

A Senior Manufacturing Technical Manager in the Leo Customer Terminal Engineering organization will understand customer desires technology and business opportunities to design and deliver Customer Terminals to a diverse set of Aviation customers. You understand key problems and analyze multiple solutions working cross functionally to produce the most power efficient cost effective technically advanced lowest cost manufacturing assembly and test and scalable Customer Terminal available in the market. A Senior Manufacturing Technical Manager provides the global vision rationale and recommendations to leadership teams for challenging technical issues related to Customer Terminal manufacturing while working on continually improving manufacturing assembly and test each year.

Export Control Requirement:
This position may require access to information technology or hardware that is subject to export control laws and regulations including the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). Employment in this position is contingent upon obtaining any required export licenses or other approvals from the United States government. As such the successful candidate must be eligible to obtain any necessary export licenses or approvals based on their nationality citizenship and any other factors considered by the applicable export control regulations.

Key job responsibilities
Amazons vision is to be the worlds most customer-centric company and this role is key to that vision. As a Senior Manufacturing Technical Manager you will be leading projects to ever-evolving customer needs for the continual development and innovation of Customer Terminals.
As an ideal candidate:

You are able to identify and solve technical manufacturing assembly and testing challenges independently.
You are responsible for continual improvement of internal design team standards to optimize for manufacturing assembly and testing.
Working with a team of engineers business development leaders industrial design customer terminal operations and product integrity you are responsible for technical updates manufacturing and assembly line to drive CT performance standardization.
You lead projects with widespread impact on CT design innovation and implementation.
You demonstrate ability to review business cases and analysis models with the business development team ensuring viability of program.
You decompose complex problems and distill underlying risks and benefits and identify straightforward and actionable solutions to reduce risk.
You work independently and have frequent reviews with business engineering software operations and others.
You understand which escalations to resolve independently and actively facilitate the escalation of high-impact issues to senior engineering and business leadership.
You understand the key aspects of legacy and modern phase array antenna design for satellite systems and how to incorporate new innovations.


About the team
Amazon Leo is focused on providing broadband access to under served customers across the world. We are passionate about accomplishing this mission as quickly as possible without sacrificing quality or performance. We are constantly solving new problems and embrace people who thrive in a startup like environment and have an entrepreneurial mindset.

Every day brings new challenges to the morning you may be working on the technology roadmap for the next five years and in the afternoon diving deep on a technical issue delaying a build. The ability to set priorities using high value judgement is a must in the role as you will have independence on focus on what you deem is critical to the organization.


- 5 years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
- Bachelors degree in engineering computer science or equivalent
- Experience managing programs across cross functional teams building processes and coordinating release schedules
- 10 years of experience in either mass production consumer electronics or aviation Experience in Design for Manufacture Design for Test Design for SMT Design for Quality.

- Experience in developing functional specifications design verification plans and functional test procedures
- Experience managing programs across cross-functional teams building processes and coordinating release schedules
- Experience using statistical tools such as Minitab
- 5 years of designing experiments and statistical analysis of results experience
- Experience defining KPIs/SLAs used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
- Experience in aviation manufacturing

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

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company Amazons package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription basic life & AD&D insurance) Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP) paid time off and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.

CAN ON Toronto - 95200.00 - 159000.00 CAD annually