Civil Engineer: Launch Site Operational Infrastructure

Hardware FYI; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking a civil engineering professional to lead site planning and conceptual design for launch-site operational infrastructure, including roads, utilities, drainage, and support facilities. The role emphasizes early design direction and collaboration with A/E partners.

You'll perform ground assessments, identify constraints, and guide the geotechnical, hydrology, and environmental considerations to shape development well before construction.

Qualifications

• Experience in civil planning for large-scale sites.
• Ability to evaluate geotechnical, hydrology and environmental constraints.
• Comfort with decision-making under incomplete information.

Responsibilities

• Lead civil planning and conceptual site design for launch site infrastructure.
• Conduct site evaluation and due diligence; walk the ground and assess constraints.
• Coordinate early with A/E partners and stakeholders to shape early design direction.

Skills

Civil planning

Site design

Geotech

Hydrology

Environmental assessment

A/E coordination

Tools

Geotechnical data tools

Job description

Application close date:

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 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, Test Operations, Safety, Quality, and Mission Assurance. This includes Manufacturing and Supply Chain support across all Blue Origin facilities.

Blue Origin is building the next generation of orbital launch infrastructure, and the Western Range is where our next chapter gets written. A launch site is a lot more than a pad: it's roads, utilities, water and power, port and wharf access, integration and support facilities, and the connective tissue that lets the whole operation run. This is a civil engineering role for someone who wants to own that connective tissue from the front end, walking candidate ground, finding the constraints before they find you, shaping the conceptual design, and driving the early coordination with the agencies and A/E partners who will decide how it gets built.

You’ll own civil planning and conceptual site design for the operational infrastructure that stands up a launch site. You’ll build the early site layouts, surface the geotech and hydrology and environmental issues before they turn into schedule, and set the technical direction the A/E takes into design development.

This is not a construction-management seat. Most of what you touch isn’t under construction yet. The decisions you’re making are the ones that lock in what construction will look like two years from now, and the decisions that are hardest to walk back once the design catches up to them.

We're looking for someone who:

• Treats a site walk as a chance to learn something the desk version can't show you
• Is comfortable making decisions with incomplete information, then refining as the picture clears
• Has been through enough of a design cycle to know where the hard problems hide
• Wants to be in the room when we decide where everything goes and how it all talks to each other

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead civil planning and conceptual site design for launch site operational infrastructure: roads, utilities, drainage, port and wharf access, integration and support facilities, laydown and staging, and the civil scope that ties them together
• Support site evaluation and due diligence. Walk the ground, evaluate constraints (geotechnical, hydrology, flood, environmental, utilities, access), and build the case for or against candidate layouts
• Drive early coordination with A