Director, MEP Facility Engineering

Blue Origin; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 188,000 - 263,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Job summary

Blue Origin seeks a Director of MEP Facility Engineering to lead the mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and process piping engineering organization across multiple locations. You will shape strategy, manage budgets and headcount, and partner with senior leaders to deliver facility infrastructure enabling our spaceflight mission.

You will guide a distributed team of managers and engineers, ensure code-compliant, reliable designs, and drive enterprise standards and lifecycle processes across sites.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or related engineering discipline.
• 15+ years of engineering experience in facilities/MEP design.
• 7+ years in engineering leadership with managers or senior engineers.
• Breadth across MEP disciplines (mechanical, electrical, plumbing, process piping).
• Experience leading large, distributed, multi-site engineering organizations.
• Experience owning budgets, headcount, and capital planning.
• Strong knowledge of building codes, standards, and lifecycle (design/construction/commissioning).

Responsibilities

• Set vision, strategy, and technical direction for the MEP engineering organization across disciplines.
• Lead through managers and senior engineers; build multi-site structure.
• Own design of facility systems and oversee health of existing systems.
• Establish enterprise standards, design-review gates, quality programs; drive adoption.
• Manage budget, headcount, and capital planning; forecast resources.
• Partner with operations, manufacturing, and program leaders to align facility scope with priorities.
• Ensure licensed engineers are involved and regulatory requirements met.
• Champion turnover, commissioning, and reliability processes.
• Scale the organization by hiring and developing in-house design capability.
• Represent facility engineering in executive reviews and site travel.

Skills

Leadership

MEP design

Budget management

Multi-site management

Regulatory compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical/Electrical engineering

Tools

Revit/BIM

Job description

Blue Origin seeks a Director of MEP Facility Engineering to lead the mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and process piping engineering organization across multiple locations. You will shape strategy, manage budgets and headcount, and partner with senior leaders to deliver facility infrastructure enabling our spaceflight mission.

You will guide a distributed team of managers and engineers, ensure code-compliant, reliable designs, and drive enterprise standards and lifecycle processes across sites.