Senior Tooling & Fabrication Program Lead

Blue Origin LLC; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Paid time off

401(k)

Job summary

Blue Origin LLC is seeking a senior Manufacturing/Operations specialist in New York area to support welding, machining, fabrication, and assembly for space launch vehicles. The role emphasizes hands-on work, project management, and cross-functional collaboration with engineering, procurement, and production teams.

The ideal candidate has 20+ years in maintenance, machining, welding or related fields and strong MRPs/ERP experience with Lean/Six Sigma understanding; strong communication and

Qualifications

• 20+ 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.
• Demonstrates understanding of LEAN, Six Sigma principles/DFSS/Lean design principles, Value Stream, and Kaizen.
• Highly detail-oriented communications and record-keeping skills.
• Must wear appropriate PPE.
• May work in areas with fumes, dust, chemicals, outdoor weather, or moving parts.
• Associate’s degree in engineering, science, or business or trade tech certificate in welding/machining/structural assembly.
• Familiar with Coupa/Costpoint provisioning systems.
• Flexible to work varied shifts, overtime, weekends and travel.
• Experience with ERP systems.
• Ability to handle multiple decisions based on workload.
• Microsoft Office Suite proficiency.
• Strong interpersonal, written and oral communication skills.
• Strong math and analytical 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 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 and transport material; begin weld, waterjet and machining subtasks.
• 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 changes.
• Coordinate across suppliers for best results and pursue new suppliers as necessary.
• Expedite material shortages with procurement, receiving, quality, and other production areas.
• Collaborate with weld, machining, metrology, and assembly labor to keep build plans on schedule.
• Monitor flow/velocity of jobs through the production line and ensure on-time completion.
• May interface with various departments across the company.
• Demonstrate strong organizational skills and teamwork; decisive problem solving.

Skills

Maintenance

Machining

Welding

Waterjet

Project management

MRP

Cross functional team

MS Office

LEAN

Six Sigma

Education

Associate's degree in engineering/science/business

Technical certificate in welding

Trade school completion

Tools

MRP system

Coupa

Costpoint

Microsoft Office

MES

Job description

Blue Origin LLC is seeking a senior Manufacturing/Operations specialist in New York area to support welding, machining, fabrication, and assembly for space launch vehicles. The role emphasizes hands-on work, project management, and cross-functional collaboration with engineering, procurement, and production teams.

The ideal candidate has 20+ years in maintenance, machining, welding or related fields and strong MRPs/ERP experience with Lean/Six Sigma understanding; strong communication and