Manufacturing Engineer Sr - Structures (New Shepard)

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Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed.

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!  

This role is part of Blue Origin Operations, which is comprised of Integrated Supply Chain, Facilities, and Security, and Safety, Quality, and Mission Assurance. This includes Manufacturing and Supply Chain support across all Blue Origin facilities.

We are a diverse team of collaborators, doers, and problem- solvers who are relentlessly committed to a culture of safety. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable space flight. Join us in lowering the cost of access to space and enabling Blue Origin’s vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit Earth.  

Come join us at our state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Kent, WA as a New Shepard Manufacturing Engineer working to develop cost-effective reusable rockets that embody our “Launch. Land. Repeat.” mission with the ultimate goal of making space accessible to everyone for the betterment of Earth.

Our New Shepard Rocket is a reusable suborbital rocket systems designed to take astronauts and research payloads past the Kármán line – the internationally recognized boundary of space. Through operational reusability, New Shepard supports our mission of lowering the cost of access to space.

This is a critical vehicle for learning in which we pioneer and validate technologies for our next generation of space vehicles such as New Glenn and Orbital Reef. To build a road to space we are looking to build a diverse team of problem solvers and collaborators who are passionate about building a road to space for millions of people living and working in space.

This role is part of Blue Origin Operations, which is comprised of Integrated Supply Chain, Facilities, and Security. This includes Manufacturing and Supply Chain support across all Blue Origin facilities.

As part of a hardworking team of diverse specialists, technicians, engineers, you will be responsible for working closely with engineering design and company leadership to support all manufacturing efforts and equipment related to building various spaceflight systems. This includes owning the manufacturing and assembly work that is performed on a launch vehicle module, investigating and dispositioning non-conformances (NCs), as well as delivery and commissioning of the various sub-systems in support of programmatic budgets and schedules.

We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!

Special Mentions:

• Relocation provided

• Travel expected up to 5% of the time

• Shifts available: Regular shift

  • Monday – Friday (5/8 schedule)

• Interviews will include a technical assessment

As part of a hardworking team of diverse specialists, technicians, engineers, you will be responsible for working closely with engineering design to support the manufacturing floor in assembly and installation with work order generation and execution, compliance to engineering requirements, discrepancy resolution, and component acceptance testing – specifically on structures product lifecycle in NS Propulsion Module. In addition, this position expected to perform hands-on engineering and liaison role between our design, test, operations, and manufacturing customers, this includes (but not limited to): facilitating troubleshooting efforts and dispositioning of non-conforming (NC) structural related issues - preferably on addressing tolerance stack-up, weld inspection, drilling, or manufacturing of structural hardware - through detailed work instructions; and lead efforts in isolating NC parts and assemblies.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:  

• Develop manufacturing work instructions to clearly define manufacturing processes for composites fabrication, inspection, trimming, and assembly.  
• Lead DFMA & PFMEA analysis at part, assembly, and system level to improve build sequence, manufacturing processes, layout development and feedback loop between design, build, and test. 
• Develop and impl