Avionics Production Engineer III – NPI & Lifecycle Lead

Blue Origin LLC; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 131,000 - 183,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Stock options

Paid time off

Job summary

Blue Origin LLC envisions millions of people living and working in space and develops reusable, safe, low‑cost space vehicles. This role manages the NewGlenn avionics product lifecycle, supporting development, qualification, sustaining production, and testing across the hardware lifecycle.

Collaboration with IPT leadership, Supply Chain, and external manufacturers drives on‑time delivery within budget. The position resembles a Technical Project Manager with emphasis on production engineering,

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience developing, manufacturing, introducing, testing, or sustaining complex electronic products.
• Project management experience or formal training, with demonstrated success planning and executing complex projects involving cross‑functional product development teams and external manufacturers.
• Experience planning, fabricating, testing, and delivering complex electronic hardware, including managing datasets, budgets, cost estimates, and product performance metrics using Microsoft Excel or similar tools.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Integrated Product Team leadership to integrate product concepts and requirements, manage manufacturing design artifacts, and align product execution with program technical and business objectives.
• Lead avionics product development and new product introduction (NPI) activities through planning, execution, performance monitoring, gated reviews, production transition, and closeout.
• Develop and maintain end-to-end, logic‑linked product schedules covering dependencies, critical paths, phase transitions, and alignment with the integrated master schedule.
• Define production strategies and priorities that align supplier execution, procurement, internal assembly, testing, integration, and hardware demand with program requirements.
• Coordinate with manufacturing, integration, operations, and Supply Chain teams to develop and release SOWs, specifications, SDRLs, EIDPs, and other production artifacts.
• Plan and coordinate hardware procurement, long‑lead and test hardware orders, budgets, delivery schedules, and qualification activities with contract manufacturers, test facilities, and internal teams.
• Monitor supplier performance, capacity, cost, quality, and delivery execution; serve as a primary technical point of contact; address risks and bottlenecks; and incorporate design‑for‑manufacturability and design‑for‑test feedback.
• Support make‑versus‑buy analyses, should‑cost assessments, competitive sourcing strategies, supplier selection, and supplier relationship management to improve cost, schedule, capacity, and quality.
• Manage product scope changes, deviations, nonconformances, engineering change requests, failure documentation, cross‑functional actions, risks, and schedule adjustments to support uninterrupted hardware delivery.
• Lead process improvements and documented handoffs to Supply Chain and Operations, including production and inventory reporting, workflow optimization, command media updates, automation, and artificial intelligence tools.

Skills

Project management

Analytical skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Tools

Primavera P6

DOORS

Altium

Creo

Windchill

Job description

Blue Origin LLC envisions millions of people living and working in space and develops reusable, safe, low‑cost space vehicles. This role manages the NewGlenn avionics product lifecycle, supporting development, qualification, sustaining production, and testing across the hardware lifecycle.

Collaboration with IPT leadership, Supply Chain, and external manufacturers drives on‑time delivery within budget. The position resembles a Technical Project Manager with emphasis on production engineering,