Senior Spaceflight Program Manager - Manufacturing

Blue Origin; Florida; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Stock options

Education support program

Parental leave

Disability insurance

Job summary

Blue Origin seeks a seasoned professional to join the JARVIS Team focused on welding, fabrication, machining, and final assembly of large tooling and launch infrastructure. You will analyze drawings, plan builds, manage schedules, and coordinate across departments to keep programs on track.

The role requires strong planning, communication, and project management skills, with an emphasis on safety and quality in a manufacturing environment on the Space Coast.

Qualifications

• Associate’s degree in engineering, science, or business or Trade School completion or Technical Certificate in welding, machining or structural assembly.
• 10+ years maintenance, mechanic, machining, welding, waterjet, technical assembly, and/or project management
• Experience with activities related to planning and/or scheduling
• Experience with Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP)
• Experience working with a cross functional team
• Excellent computer skills with MS Office, MES experience with MRP execution desired.
• Excellent written/verbal communications skills
• LEAN, Six Sigma, DFSS/Lean design principles, Value Stream, Kaizen desirable
• Detail-oriented communications and record-keeping skills

Responsibilities

• Analyze complex drawings to determine build plan, fabrication challenges, and manufacturability across welding, machining, and assembly.
• Evaluate manufacturing schedule and coordinate the availability and controlled flow of materials and services to meet customer requirements
• Perform shop order release/closure in MRP System and reconcile parts
• Multitask across simultaneous builds
• Provide detailed status of work in progress, material availability, and communicate constraints to schedule
• Prepare work orders and internal tickets to produce subassemblies, kit and transport material, begin weld, waterjet and machining subtasks, and final transport
• Coordinate with the warehouse, inspection, quality, operations, purchasing, engineering, logistics and the program
• Serve as primary point of contact to customer for status, escalations, and last-minute changes
• Coordinate across suppliers for best results and pursue new suppliers as necessary
• Work to expedite any material shortages with procurement, receiving, quality, and other production areas
• Collaborate with weld, machining, metrology, and assembly labor to keep build plans on schedule and remove roadblocks.
• Monitor the flow/velocity of jobs through the production line and partner with Manufacturing/Operations to ensure work completes on time to schedule.
• May be required to interface with departments throughout the company
• Must possess good organizational skills, the ability to work well with others, good decision‑making skills, and the ability to think outside the box

Skills

10+ years experience

Cross-functional team

Problem solving

Communication skills

LEAN/Six Sigma

Education

Associate’s degree or trade certificate

Engineering/Science/Business focus

Tools

MS Office

MRP/ERP systems

MES/MRP execution

Coupa/Costpoint

Job description

Blue Origin seeks a seasoned professional to join the JARVIS Team focused on welding, fabrication, machining, and final assembly of large tooling and launch infrastructure. You will analyze drawings, plan builds, manage schedules, and coordinate across departments to keep programs on track.

The role requires strong planning, communication, and project management skills, with an emphasis on safety and quality in a manufacturing environment on the Space Coast.