Engineer – Manufacturing Sr

Blue Origin; Washington; Presencial; USD 120.000 - 150.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Blue Origin is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Engineer to serve as the ME Subject Matter Expert for the Electric Propulsion program. You will help transition thruster variants from design into high-rate production and set manufacturing standards with speed and decisiveness.

You will lead process development, tooling, and procedures while building ME capability across the team to deliver propulsion systems at rate. This role reports to the Director of Operations.

Formación

• Experience leading manufacturing engineering in high-rate production environments.
• Strong problem-solving and root-cause analysis skills.
• Ability to collaborate with design and production teams.

Responsabilidades

• Establish and enforce manufacturing best practices across the ME team.
• Lead speed, decisiveness, and first-principles thinking to remove waste.
• Represent ME in program forums, design reviews, and leadership updates.
• Act as technical escalation point for complex manufacturing problems.

Conocimientos

Manufacturing Leadership

DFM/DFx

Root Cause Analysis

Process Improvement

Cross-functional Collaboration

Descripción del empleo

Application Close Date

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

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 seeking a Senior Manufacturing Engineer to serve as the Manufacturing Engineering Subject Matter Expert for the new Electric Propulsion program. The Electric Propulsion Production Team will be responsible for transitioning Electric Propulsion Thruster variants from design into high-rate production. This is a high-visibility, high-impact role reporting directly to the Director of Operations.

This person will have impact from day one on setting the manufacturing standard, driving speed and decisiveness, developing processes, tooling, procedures, and building the ME capability of the entire team to deliver electric propulsion systems at rate.

This is not a role for someone who optimizes things that shouldn't exist. We need someone who can identify waste at its root, eliminate it, and teach others to do the same.

Key Responsibilities

ME Leadership

• Establish and enforce manufacturing best practices; mentor and guide MEs at all levels to raise the technical floor of the entire organization
• Drive a culture of speed, decisiveness, and first-principles thinking - challenge MEs to eliminate processes that shouldn't exist before optimizing the ones that should
• Represent Manufacturing Engineering in high-visibility program forums, design reviews, and leadership readouts
• Serve as the technical escalation point for complex manufacturing problems; break down ambiguous failures to their root physical and materials-level causes

Design for Manufacturability (DFM/DFx)

• Provide assertive, data-backed