Launch Site Civil Engineer — Front-End Infrastructure Design

Blue Origin; California; Hybrid; USD 99,000 - 139,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off & holidays

Life insurance

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking a civil engineering professional to own the conceptual design and planning of launch-site operational infrastructure in California. You will walk sites, identify constraints, and guide early coordination with architects and engineers to shape the scope long before construction begins.

You will evaluate environmental and regulatory considerations, perform field work, and communicate decisions effectively to multidisciplinary teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or related engineering discipline.
• 3+ years of professional experience in civil engineering design, planning, or site development (grading, drainage, utilities, roadways).
• Proficiency in AutoCAD Civil 3D.
• Willingness to travel to candidate and active sites: frequent day trips and the occasional longer stint.
• Strong communication: written, verbal, and the kind where you have to make the case for a site decision to a room that doesn't start out agreeing.
• Comfortable rapidly changing roles and priorities in a high-paced, ambiguous environment.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident (current Green Card holder).
• Ability to obtain and maintain badging at government installations (Vandenberg SFB).
• Ability to perform hands-on field work in heat, cold, rain, tight quarters, or at heights.

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/E partners. Shape technical scope, set direction, review schematic and design-development deliverables, resolve cross-discipline conflicts at the stage where they're cheap to resolve.
• Support environmental planning and regulatory compliance: NEPA Environmental Assessments, environmental surveys, impact analyses, agency coordination.
• Produce sketch-level and spot-check civil design in AutoCAD Civil 3D to support fast turns on tie-ins, feasibility studies, and alternatives analysis.
• Coordinate with adjacent disciplines (structural, mechanical, electrical, fluids, geotech) to keep the multi-disciplinary picture coherent as the design matures.
• Help develop statements of work and technical scope for civil design, planning, and site evaluation activities.
• Use BIM workflows to keep site and facility design coordinated across disciplines.
• Identify project risks early, surface them, and drive them to closure.
• Be in the field when the field needs you: site walks, agency meetings, early construction observation as projects progress.

Skills

Strong communication

Willingness to travel

Adaptability in fast-paced environment

Education

Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or related engineering discipline

Tools

AutoCAD Civil 3D

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking a civil engineering professional to own the conceptual design and planning of launch-site operational infrastructure in California. You will walk sites, identify constraints, and guide early coordination with architects and engineers to shape the scope long before construction begins.

You will evaluate environmental and regulatory considerations, perform field work, and communicate decisions effectively to multidisciplinary teams.