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.
As a Supplier Quality Strategy Lead, you will develop, drive and optimize mechanisms for quality assurance and control activities for a large supply chain of electronics, mechanical parts and semiconductors. You will work with Engineering, Sourcing and Manufacturing teams to establish and operate quality system mechanisms that deliver high-performance satellite components and sub-assemblies at unprecedented volume.
Key job responsibilities
- Own the quality management system and its mechanisms for Kuiper's supply chain operations
- Optimize supplier quality mechanisms for supplier performance improvement and meeting quality and production goals
- Drive defect identification and elimination activities including application of Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) tools
- Collaborate with engineering, suppliers, supply chain, and manufacturing to optimize Design for Excellence
- Move quality checks upstream and eliminate the need to inspect quality into the product by achieving high process capability
- 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 quality mechanisms lead within Kuiper's supply chain operations. 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.
