Senior Manufacturing Engineer — Factory Setup & Automation

Blue Origin; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Stock options for regular employees

401(k) with company match

Job summary

Blue Origin LLC is seeking a Principal Manufacturing Engineer to organize and drive improvements across fabrication and manufacturing operations. You will lead planning, executing, and monitoring project campaigns, including new factory setup and optimization of existing operations.

You will build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, apply technical leadership, and mentor teams while ensuring quality and on-time delivery in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Industrial, or related Engineering discipline.
• 10+ years of manufacturing/production engineering experience.
• Demonstrated experience standing up manufacturing centers / new factory setup.
• Strong foundation in manufacturing automation and automated production systems.
• Advanced knowledge of manufacturing methodologies, tooling capabilities, secondary processes, and Design for Manufacturability (DFM).
• Advanced application of GD&T, modeling, drawing practices, and change management.
• Proven ability to lead root cause analysis and corrective action on major-scope nonconformances.
• Advanced understanding of material properties, specification authoring, and management of ATP/QTP testing.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings/models and apply their specific intent.
• Experience with Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES).
• Experience with lean manufacturing and continuous improvement methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead the stand-up of new manufacturing centers, from concept through operational readiness, with an emphasis on automation and scalable, efficient factory design.
• Drive optimization of existing operations — improving throughput, quality, cost, and cycle time across the fabrication and manufacturing environment.
• Work the entire manufacturing cycle, or at significant technical depth across multiple discipline-specific areas, independently and with no oversight.
• Own strategic initiatives, technology maturation, and best-practice capture, contributing to company objectives in creative and effective ways.
• Develop advanced techniques, methods, procedures, and criteria required for hardware manufacturing and delivery, guiding them into final production-ready processes.
• Lead anomaly investigations, root cause analyses (RCCA), and recovery plans for complex development and production issues.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers and project teams, setting technical direction across the organization.
• Develop and manage relationships across the company and with external partners, serving as an organizational spokesperson on advanced projects and programs.
• Hold responsibility for schedule, budget, milestones, and/or program technical approval authority.

Skills

Manufacturing engineering

Project leadership

Automation

Lean manufacturing

Root cause analysis

Quality assurance

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical/Manufacturing/Industrial Engineering

Tools

MES

DFM

Job description

Blue Origin LLC is seeking a Principal Manufacturing Engineer to organize and drive improvements across fabrication and manufacturing operations. You will lead planning, executing, and monitoring project campaigns, including new factory setup and optimization of existing operations.

You will build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, apply technical leadership, and mentor teams while ensuring quality and on-time delivery in a fast-paced environment.