Advanced Production Scheduler, Project Kuiper

Advanced Production System Scheduler

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.

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 organizations.

Key job responsibilities include:

• Shift pattern 4x10 Friday - Monday
• Develop processes/strategies to handle work order material discrepancies within production cells.
• Coordinate the schedule, plan, and initial staging of material/kits to all vital areas of production and test.
• Monitor, track, and move parts as required through the production flow to ensure timely delivery to next production location.
• Own the production roadmap for production value streams that delivers the end-to-end solutions necessary to source, build, test and integrate satellites.
• Drive daily execution working across supply chain, planning, fulfillment and production teams.
• Represent the overall production roadmap in assessing technical trades related to innovation, speed, manufacturability, cost, stability and trust.
• Translate strategic goals into actionable plans for specific projects and operations.
• Understand dependencies between roadmap projects, synchronize milestones, identify constraints and dive deep where necessary to unblock and deliver the roadmap.
• Create new tools and business processes that simplify, standardize and enable operational excellence across the entire production value stream.
• Develop and own operational rhythms for all of production operations teams.
• Identify potential risks in manufacturing processes and develop mitigation strategies and recovery plans.
• Execute a strategic plan that defines how teams will deliver on forward looking production plans.
• Support the development and execution of Production Rate Ramp roadmaps.
• Partner with business teams on scalable, standardized approaches to meet their demand and enable growth.
• Drive the creation, documentation, and adoption of scalable, standardized, and highly visible processes across all supply chain, manufacturing and launch functions.
• Drive executive communication cadence and deliver artifacts that provide insight into the activities, accomplishments, challenges and risks of operations to senior leadership.
• Measure, analyze, improve, and control KPIs across all aspects of the operation.
• Work with software and analytics teams to develop reporting tools and applications that support, operating rhythms.
• Analyze production data to identify trends, issues, and opportunities for improvement.

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 Redmond and 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: Project Kuiper 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 Kuiper teams, including hardware, software, supply chain, manufacturing, launch, facilities, finance, compliance, and HR.