Specialist - Quality & Contin Improvement III

At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We’re working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our diverse team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight!  

Safety, Quality, and Mission Assurance: This role is part of the Safety, Quality, and Mission Assurance team. This team is focused on monitoring and assessing processes that guide Blue Origin’s design, manufacturing, and operations, ensuring system safety engineering, environmental health, and safety, product integrity, and continuous improvement processes.

As part of a hardworking team of diverse specialists, technicians, and engineers (use as appropriate), you will conduct internal production/process and manufacturing quality control audits and risk assessments. Prepares audit plans and understands the specific issues to be evaluated. Executes internal audits within established manufacturing and production controls to ensure compliance with in-house and external specifications and standards (i.e., GLP, GMP, ISO, Six Sigma). Develops formal written reports to communicate audit results to management and regulatory compliance agencies, if applicable, and makes recommendations as appropriate. May facilitate work of external auditors during on-site visits. May conduct vendor evaluation audits to determine qualifications. Manufacturing Quality Assurance work includes defining and specifying activities, processes, and standards to fulfill the quality requirements for a manufactured material, component, or product, building and maintaining the infrastructure and systems necessary to consistently ensure the timely delivery of quality products, auditing, monitoring, and determining the quality of manufacturing processes and/or outputs against defined internal and regulatory standards. Reporting and troubleshooting manufacturing process deviations and defects in finished goods.

Special Mentions

• Relocation provided
• Travel expected up to 5% of the time
• Shifts available:
  • 1st and 2nd
• Interviews will include a technical assessment
• 1 position available

Van Horn Specific information

Being at the heart of Blue Origin operations, the West Texas Site in Van Horn, TX offers eligible employee’s additional attractive financial incentives to supplement their competitive base earnings, including a living allowance and relocation assistance.  Eligibility for these additional benefits is based on the employee’s ability to permanently relocate to Van Horn, TX, or travel to Van Horn from another Blue location a minimum of 50% of the time.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Review product Non-Conformances to ensure data accuracy and drive corrective action
• Perform witness buy-offs and close out inspections of work orders
• Perform process surveillances on test and flight operations  
• Review scrap material and correctly process to ensure proper segregation documentation
• Investigate process non-compliances and document findings
• Work closely with Quality Engineers to analyze data and drive improvement
• Assist and lead Continuous Improvement projects and Root Cause Analysis events

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum Quality experience of 5 to 7 years and/or relevant education in a related technical field
• Quality assurance experience on an engine test stands, manufacturing and launch operations environment
• Mid quality level experience on maintenance, modifications, dimensional measurements, and inspections
• Knowledgeable on technical documentation, system configuration and assemblies 
• Familiarity performing AS9100 or ISO9001 audits within a Quality Management System 
• Ability to support test and launch operations for first and/or second shift throughout the week
• Six Sigma Green Belt Certification a plus
• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum
• asylum.

Preferred Qualifications

• Associates or Bachelors degree in a technical field
• Experience in Aerospace, space launch, military/commercial aviation highly preferred.
• Experience with quality tools such as Lean principles, Six Sigma, root cause analysis and corrective action
• Experience with advanced product quality planning (APQP), process failure mode and effects analysis (PFMEA), control plans, and