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Amazon Quality and Sustaining Engineer, Reverse Logistics (RL) in Sunnyvale, California
Description
Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create?
The Role:
The Reverse Logistics (RL) Service Quality and Sustaining Engineering Manager is responsible for ensuring that devices returns and services provide a quality and continuously improving customer experience. RL Quality and Sustaining Engineers (QSEs) own the business Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) including establishing aggressive organizational goals, reporting to leadership, and leading cross-functional teams focused on improvement.
The QSE will be an expert on existing sustaining RL processes and assess risk of new and unique processes for the growing devices portfolio of products. On-going assessment includes evaluations of operational and technical processes, resulting in closed loop feedback to Amazon devices design, product quality, and sustaining engineering teams.
The Quality and Sustaining Engineer will be responsible for creating and owning the operational quality management tools and mechanisms for the customer returns and reverse supply chain business. This will include collaboration with the global supplier and 3rd party partner Quality and Operations leadership teams to drive data-driven decisions and performance improvement.
The successful candidate will establish quality goals and monitor performance, investigate to root cause determination, and validate implementation of subsequent closed loop corrective action. Working with high sense of urgency when managing critical issues, the QSE will ensure that robust processes and inspection mechanisms exist to prevent new process defects as well as eliminate recurrence.
As part of sustaining operations support, the QSE will support change announcement and implementation for products through the end of the product support lifecycle throughout the reverse logistics network and supplier base. The QSE will be required to evaluate conflicting priorities to deliver timely changes and protect the customer experience throughout the life of their device. As the RL facilitator for device capture and failure analysis processes across device engineering and product teams, the QSE will work quickly and communicate clearly to a wide cross-functional team.
In addition to the work done in the New Product Introduction (NPI) and Sustaining phases, the Quality Engineer will enforce accountability to stakeholders and peers, drive continuous improvement in all aspects of the job, be able to deal with ambiguity, and influence at all levels of the company.
In this role, you will:
Understand customer returns and services features and processes in detail to be able to assess risk and build processes that prevent negative customer experiences due to process risks
Be an expert in operations and supplier quality management, including standard quality management systems
Lead cross-functional teams for continuous improvement initiatives and corrective actions response
Utilize your comprehensive knowledge of standards, related disciplines, company strategy and goals, to ensure a positive customer experience
Deliver solutions to complex problems through in-depth data analysis and forensics by using methodical approaches, along with experience, innovation and judgment to make decisions that may be based on partial information
Understand detailed implications of decisions and recommendations and be able to communicate recommended solutions to the product development team, all the way up through the executive leadership of the company
Align cross-functionally, influencing a broad spectrum of stakeholders to deliver on the quality policy
Create standards around which others will operate and build consensus
Travel up to 20%
Basic Qualifications
BSME/BSIE/BSEE or related Engineering degree
5+ years of experience in a process engineering, operations engineering and/or quality role
5+ years of experience with statistical tools, KPI management, and/or performance improvement development and monitoring
Preferred Qualifications
Technical aptitude and familiarity with the design and utilization of complex systems
Proven track record of complex and creative problem solving and the desire to create and build new processes
Proven ability to influence others and facilitate agreement among stakeholders with different interests
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Ability to work with and influence others
Lab126 is part of the Amazon.com, Inc. group of companies and is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation.
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $87,800/year in our lowest geographic market up to $217,400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
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