Senior Manufacturing Design Engineer – Aerospace Tooling

Blue Origin; Merritt Island (FL); On-site; USD 85,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Parental leave

Job summary

Blue Origin’s Lunar Operations team seeks a seasoned Manufacturing Engineer to design tooling, fixtures, and GSE for efficient lunar hardware production. You will work with design, manufacturing, quality, and operations to deliver tooling concepts, document control, and manufacturability improvements across life cycles.

This role requires a strong background in 3D CAD, GD&T, and producibility assessments, with an emphasis on safety, quality, and regulatory compliance in aerospace environments.

Qualifications

• B.S. degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, Manufacturing Engineering, or related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Experience in a manufacturing engineering, tooling design, GSE design, production support, or hardware development role in aerospace or highly regulated industries (3+ years Level 2 ME, 5+ years Level 3 ME, 8+ years Sr ME).
• Proficiency with 3D CAD tools, GD&T, tolerance analysis, manufacturability/assembly design, and documentation control.
• Experience supporting production operations, resolving nonconformances, improving processes, and ensuring compliance with safety, quality, and regulatory requirements.
• Ability to perform hand-calculations for structural analysis of tooling and GSE.

Responsibilities

• Design tooling, fixtures, handling equipment, and GSE for efficient manufacturing and test of flight hardware.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop new build processes and tooling concepts.
• Plan and support builds of engineering demonstrators, test articles, and prototype hardware.
• Drive DFX principles and conduct producibility assessments to bridge manufacturing gaps.
• Develop and refine tooling and GSE requirements for rapid design and deployment.
• Create and maintain CAD models, drawings, specs, procedures, and supplier statements of work.

Skills

3D CAD tools

GD&T

DFX / manufacturability

Producibility assessments

Cross-functional collaboration

Hand-calculations for structural分析

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, Manufacturing Engineering or related

Tools

Creo

CATIA

NX

Windchill

ANSYS

Job description

Blue Origin’s Lunar Operations team seeks a seasoned Manufacturing Engineer to design tooling, fixtures, and GSE for efficient lunar hardware production. You will work with design, manufacturing, quality, and operations to deliver tooling concepts, document control, and manufacturability improvements across life cycles.

This role requires a strong background in 3D CAD, GD&T, and producibility assessments, with an emphasis on safety, quality, and regulatory compliance in aerospace environments.