Leo 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.
Key job responsibilities
The Quality Inspector will operate advanced metrology equipment to ensure product conformance for highly-complex aerospace grade hardware.
- Perform Receiving Inspection activity using sampling plans and metrology equipment, such as CMMs, Romer Arms, micrometers, calipers, height gages, calipers, micrometers, gages, etc..
- Report nonconformances when defective material is found.
- Develop and lead 5S activities around the Quality area(s) to ensure efficient working areas.
- Read Inspection Plans and Work Instructions to perform quality inspections
- Interpret engineering blueprints and drawings to the ASME Y14.5 standard to GD&T
- Perform Critical in-process and final inspections for assembled product.
- Complete First Article Inspection Reports (FAIRs) to the requirements of
AS9102- Develop Standard Operator Procedures (SOPs) for other inspectors to follow for day-to-day tasks.
- Train new inspectors on the correct usage of equipment and day to day responsibilities.
- Estimates shift times are: Monday-Friday: 7am-4pm
Additional Requirements:
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a US Passport and must meet customs entry requirements to include but not limited to: Yellow Fever vaccine and other immunization requirements as recommended by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Must be able to pass Kennedy Space Center background checks
- Willing to travel to French Guiana for 45 calendar days per year.
A day in the life
This role will work daily to:
- Execute inspection plans for a wide variety of hardware, utilizing a wide range of equipment.
- Perform and complete FAIs to
AS9102 and present package to engineering for sign off.
- Inspect and buy off rework/repair activities
- Investigate hardware for defects, and create nonconformance reports for discrepant hardware
- Perform In-Process and Final inspections for
assembly processes.
This individual will consistently coordinate with quality, manufacturing, and engineering to understand and inspect part requirements, and report defects.
About the team
The Leo Manufacturing Quality team is driven to develop a Leo Quality System that is capable of scaling aerospace quality to volume and cost levels to meet end customer needs. This position will join the team at an exciting moment, with an opportunity to own quality system development and contribute to the design of requirements, processes, and systems used across the business. We value data driven decision making, a comfort with dealing in ambiguous situations across multiple projects, and an ability to earn trust of various stakeholders to deliver high quality results.
- 1+ years of quality assurance engineering experience
- Willing to travel to French Guiana for 10-25% of the time.
- Certified inspector to
IPC-610
- Certified inspector to
IPC-620
- Familiar with Metrologic and/or PCDMIS inspection software
- Familiar with automated inspection equipment, including Romer arms, comparators, CMMs, and other metrology software based inspection methods.
- Comfortable reading sampling tables to ANSI/ASQ ZI.4 for established AQL levels.
- Has led inspection teams before, and can run daily 5S activities in quality areas.
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The starting pay for this position is listed below including the base pay rate plus the highest available shift differential which applies depending on the shift you select. As a total compensation company, you are eligible for additional earnings including overtime pay and performance bonuses. Final pay will be based on factors including shift selection and location. Starting Day 1 of employment, Amazon offers EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, 401(k) matching. Learn more about our benefits at https://hiring.amazon.com/why-amazon/benefits.
USA, FL, Merritt Island - 36.00 - 40.00 USD hourly