Lead Space Launch Infrastructure Project Engineer

Blue Origin; California; Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Stock options

Paid time off

Education support program

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking aSenior Project Engineer to own the delivery of launch/test site infrastructure from concept through completion. You will drive site selection, layouts, budgeting, and contractor management, coordinating with Space Force, FAA, NASA, and internal teams to ensure on-time, on-budget execution.

You will lead multi-year planning, translate requirements into planning documents, and manage design deliverables, permits, and safety clearances.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related discipline.
• 8+ years of relevant engineering or project management experience.
• 3+ years of relevant launch infrastructure, test facility, or land development experience.
• Experience working with state or federal agencies (Space Force, FAA, NASA, DoD, or state-level counterparts) on permitting, land use, and development.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate sites for infrastructure feasibility: utilities, access, operational safety clearances.
• Able to read and work from technical plans, drawings, specifications, and modeling applications.
• Experience with project scoping, budgeting, and scheduling at both the day-to-day and overall construction-management level.
• Familiarity with standard construction procedures, best practices, means and methods, and work safety standards.
• Demonstrated ability to manage technically complex projects from concept through completion using independent judgment.
• Strong verbal, written, and graphical communication.
• Motivated self-starter with strong organizational skills, capable of managing multiple concurrent projects.
• 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

• Identify and evaluate future launch and test site locations. Analyze company growth, vehicle roadmaps, and operational needs, and get infrastructure capacity ahead of demand rather than behind it.
• Develop conceptual site layouts, master plans, and ROM cost estimates that account for utilities, civil site development, environmental constraints, and hazardous operations clearances.
• Translate vehicle and operations requirements into actionable planning documents. Work directly with launch vehicle system architects and internal business units to define infrastructure needs on near, medium, and long horizons.
• Own the full lifecycle of design and construction projects as the Blue owner.
• Write statements of work, drive A&E and construction contractors to scope and schedule, manage change orders, and deliver the project on budget.
• Review and approve design deliverables, construction RFIs, and submittals.
• Hold the line on design intent and program requirements.
• Coordinate environmental regulatory planning and compliance: NEPA assessments, Environmental Baseline Surveys, agency permitting.
• Serve as the interface between internal stakeholders (mission ops, fluids, command and control) and external partners (A&E firms, construction contractors, Space Force, FAA, NASA, state agencies).
• Identify project risks and opportunities early, surface them, and drive them to closure.
• Communicate schedule and budget impacts honestly.
• Communicate across the full stack. Executive leadership one hour, the field the next, in words that land in both rooms.

Skills

Verbal communication

Written communication

Graphic communication

Self-starter

Organizational skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related discipline

Tools

CAD

3D modeling

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking aSenior Project Engineer to own the delivery of launch/test site infrastructure from concept through completion. You will drive site selection, layouts, budgeting, and contractor management, coordinating with Space Force, FAA, NASA, and internal teams to ensure on-time, on-budget execution.

You will lead multi-year planning, translate requirements into planning documents, and manage design deliverables, permits, and safety clearances.