Senior Manager, Precision Cleaning Operations

Blue Origin; Florida; On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Stock options

Paid time off

Job summary

Blue Origin’s Precision Cleaning Facility (PCF) Senior Manager leads a team of managers, shift leaders, and technicians to ensure safe, compliant, and high-quality cleaning and verification across all shifts. You own safety performance and drive production plans, capacity, and budgets while coordinating with engineering, quality, supply chain, and production customers to deliver clean hardware on time.

You will build an organization capable of scaling with program demand, mentor the next

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, manufacturing, aerospace, or related field, or equivalent military or professional experience.
• 10+ years in manufacturing, aerospace, or operations.
• 5+ years of people management in manufacturing or aerospace.
• Experience with precision cleaning or chemical processing operations.
• Ability to analyze data and metrics to drive decisions and improvements.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a strong customer focus.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of managers, shift leaders, and technicians across shifts, including nights and weekends.
• Own PCF safety performance and ensure compliance with instructions, quality, chemical handling, and EHS in a hazardous environment.
• Build and execute production, capacity, and resource plans to meet delivery schedules.
• Report facility schedule and hardware deliveries to customers and senior leadership.
• Manage the full employee life cycle: recruiting, performance management, coaching, training, career development.
• Develop next-gen PCF leaders and maintain high hiring standards.
• Ensure products meet quality standards and release engineering requirements.
• Lead root cause and corrective action on escapes and nonconformances.
• Drive continuous improvement in cycle time, setup, throughput, and cost.
• Define and track department KPIs and use data to make decisions.
• Manage PCF budgets, labor hours, overtime, and on-time delivery of projects.
• Maintain chemical baths, tools, equipment, and consumables.

Skills

Data analysis

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Leadership and people management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering / manufacturing / aerospace

Tools

Windchill

Creo

ERP

MES

PLM

Job description

Blue Origin’s Precision Cleaning Facility (PCF) Senior Manager leads a team of managers, shift leaders, and technicians to ensure safe, compliant, and high-quality cleaning and verification across all shifts. You own safety performance and drive production plans, capacity, and budgets while coordinating with engineering, quality, supply chain, and production customers to deliver clean hardware on time.

You will build an organization capable of scaling with program demand, mentor the next