Propulsion Dev Lab Manager, Project Kuiper Propulsion

Lab Manager

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.

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.

As a Lab Manager, you will be responsible for managing lab space utilized by production/dev engineering teams for assembly, building, and testing of manufacturing hardware. You will support both engineering teams and lab technicians by managing equipment and supply storage, tracking project progress, ensuring efficient space utilization, and providing guidance on lab usage. External customers will need to schedule shop support through you to prevent scheduling conflicts. Your strong organizational skills will be essential for managing equipment build projects, including tracking required equipment, lab space, consumables, and commercial off-the-shelf hardware. You will use modern collaboration software to process incoming requests and develop strategies to optimize lab space utilization. In this role, you will maintain accountability for lab best practices and report directly to the Tooling Ops Manager.

Key job responsibilities include:

• Develop and maintain project schedules around long lead, complex fabrication projects.
• Represent the interests of multiple customer teams, namely the fabrication team and the equipment engineering team.
• Support Engineers focus on "Just In Time" principles, kitting, and offsite storage- effectively managing long lead orders and frequent re-prioritization.
• Closely manage space usage in the Equipment Engineering assembly area and enforce policy around maintaining a safe and effective work area.
• Maintain shop supplies and hand tool stocks both in fabrication areas as well as equipment assembly areas.
• Work with Equipment Engineers and leaders to plan larger scale projects that span multiple groups.
• Help organize material and device transfers between local Kuiper buildings.
• Lead facility changes needed to support production and development changes.