Director, Electric Propulsion Manufacturing & Operations

Blue Origin; Central (TX); On-site; USD 203,000 - 284,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Stock options for regular employees

Education Support Program

Job summary

Blue Origin seeks a Director to own the manufacturing outcome for its electric propulsion thruster line. You will be the single-threaded leader for Operations, responsible for rate, quality, cost, and people, with authority over the entire production flow.

Role emphasizes building the organization, defining value streams, and transitioning from development to sustained rate production while managing tooling, processes, and work instructions for repeatable output.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering or technical discipline.
• 12+ years in manufacturing, production, supply chain, or operations, including 5+ years leading manufacturing organizations.
• Direct, hands-on experience taking a new product or production line from development into rate production.
• Experience carrying a product through a production-readiness or rate-readiness gate, and owning cycle-time and capability evidence.
• Experience building an organization—defining structure, hiring leaders, and developing a team through significant growth.
• Line management of both salaried professionals and craft or technician populations.
• Ability to operate in ambiguity: make defensible assumptions and move forward.
• Ability to travel frequently, up to ~35%, to other Blue Origin sites.
• U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident, or eligible for immigration status.

Responsibilities

• Own the strategy, roadmap, and priorities for successful manufacturing outcomes of the electric propulsion thruster line.
• Build the production organization: define value streams, stand up production control and manufacturing engineering, hire and develop leadership.
• Own the get-to-rate plan: define the path from development build to sustained rate production and demonstrate cycle time at the rate-readiness gate.
• Lead the transition from development build into rate production, including tooling qualification and work instructions for repeatable rate production.
• Drive producibility into the product during design and own the manufacturing view of the bill of materials as it evolves.
• Establish and own interfaces with quality, supply chain, material planning, and test operations.
• Build and manage the program’s manufacturing operating budget and capital plan, owning cost and rate.
• Set the safety and quality culture for a new production team and scale as the organization grows.

Skills

Leadership

Manufacturing

Operations

Program management

Supply chain

Quality

Ambiguity tolerance

Travel readiness

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or technical field

Tools

Lean/continuous improvement

Job description

Blue Origin seeks a Director to own the manufacturing outcome for its electric propulsion thruster line. You will be the single-threaded leader for Operations, responsible for rate, quality, cost, and people, with authority over the entire production flow.

Role emphasizes building the organization, defining value streams, and transitioning from development to sustained rate production while managing tooling, processes, and work instructions for repeatable output.