Champion Amazon’s Leadership Principles to drive a culture of ownership, accountability, teamwork, and working hard while having fun.
Create a culture of safety and quality through active engagement and leadership of the satellite test workforce.
Establish strong working relationships with design engineering, quality, EH&S, and supply chain teams.
Drive operational excellence with a combination of data analytics and Lean operations.
Manage the personnel responsible for frontline test support, triage, and debug
Use knowledge and experience in understanding, collaborating, and trading complex inputs from multiple other disciplines (Electrical, RF, Thermal, Dynamics, Mechanisms, Materials, Tooling, Assembly, and Test) to guide the manufacturing team through satellite test
A day in the life
The Satellite Test Operations Engineer will serve as a test operations leader across multiple shifts in Leo's full rate production facility. They will lead the Satellite Test Operations Team in identifying production bottlenecks, resolving test blockers, conducting thorough root-cause investigations, and implementing process improvements. The successful candidate has extensive operations experience and a thorough understanding of aerospace/space hardware manufacturing processes. They will own the daily operating rhythm of the satellite test operations team, unblocking and escalating issues with satellite test. This is a fast-paced, intellectually challenging position working with leaders in multiple technology areas. You’ll have relentlessly high standards for yourself and everyone you work with, and you’ll be constantly looking for ways to improve your product’s performance, quality and cost. This is a leadership role for a highly collaborative individual that combines superb technical and analytical capabilities to optimize precision manufacturing procedures.
Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or a related field
2+ years of experience leading tactical execution of aerospace production lines
5+ years of experience in a test engineering environment
Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
4+ years of hardware development, test lab, space/aerospace maintenance or hands-on engineering environment experience
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USA, WA, Kirkland - 151,000.00 - 204,300.00 USD annually
