Sr. Manufacturing Tech. Mgr, Kuiper Customer Terminals

Senior Manufacturing Technical Manager

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. A Senior Manufacturing Technical Manager in the Kuiper 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.

Key job responsibilities:

• 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:

Kuiper 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 Kuiper. In 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.