Sr. Technical Program Manager, AWS Manufacturing

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Key job responsibilities

• Apply technical knowledge and hands-on creation in AWS's Manufacturing sites to develop world-class robotic solutions for maximum impact to our customers.
• In-depth understanding of relevant safety regulations for use of robotic equipment in close proximity to workers.
• Design or provide input to part design to create the fixtures and equipment for robotic and semi-automated systems to aid in manufacturing at lowest cost and shortest cycle time.
• Develop systems and metrics to monitor progress and highlight opportunities of improvement in cost, cycle time, OEE.
• Train engineering and operations teams on new processes and techniques.
• Conduct Kaizen activities for continuous improvement of cost and cycle time.
• Collaborate with cross-functional team members to gain knowledge and improve product design, processes, and quality.
• Work with upstream vendors and downstream customers to optimize the entire value stream and put together joint processes that will lead to better cost and cycle time.
• Excellent communicator with an ability to concisely and precisely convey information to executives and cross-functional teams.
• Needs to be an evangelist for teaching Automation to the organization.
• Ability to multitask on several concurrent projects of medium to high complexity.

About the role

We are seeking a Manufacturing Automation and Robotics Tech Program Manager to help us fuel AWS' explosive growth. This role is the single-threaded owner of developing and deploying robotic assembly and other automation solutions across AWS rack fulfillment manufacturing sites. You will analyze the AWS hardware requirements and work with third-party Automation suppliers to develop, pilot, and scale automation solutions spanning EC2, Machine Learning, and Storage hardware platforms in manufacturing environments. Your work directly enables AWS to increase productivity and quality at these facilities and meet data center capacity commitments by ensuring manufacturing infrastructure scales efficiently, reliably, and repeatably across a global site network. Possessing strong leadership, influencing skills, and technical depth are critical elements of success for this role. This leader will establish manufacturing standards and publish process control guidelines to assure flawless ramp into volume manufacturing.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical product or program management experience
• 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
• 5+ years of technical program management working directly with software engineering teams experience
• Experience managing programs across cross-functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or equivalent

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
• Experience managing projects across cross-functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
• Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi-million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership