Engineer - Manufacturing Sr

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Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed. At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We're working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight! This role is part of Blue Origin Operations, which is comprised of Integrated Supply Chain, Test Operations, Safety, Quality, and Mission Assurance. This includes Manufacturing and Supply Chain support across all Blue Origin facilities.

Job Description

Blue Origin is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Engineer to serve as the Manufacturing Engineering Subject Matter Expert for the new Electric Propulsion program. The Electric Propulsion Production Team will be responsible for transitioning Electric Propulsion Thruster variants from design into high-rate production. This is a high-visibility, high-impact role reporting directly to the Director of Operations. This person will have impact from day one on setting the manufacturing standard, driving speed and decisiveness, developing processes, tooling, procedures, and building the ME capability of the entire team to deliver electric propulsion systems at rate. This is not a role for someone who optimizes things that shouldn't exist. We need someone who can identify waste at its root, eliminate it, and teach others to do the same.

Key Responsibilities:

ME Leadership

• Serve as the Manufacturing Engineering SME across the Electric Propulsion value stream
• Establish and enforce manufacturing best practices; mentor and guide MEs at all levels to raise the technical floor of the entire organization
• Drive a culture of speed, decisiveness, and first-principles thinking - challenge MEs to eliminate processes that shouldn't exist before optimizing the ones that should
• Represent Manufacturing Engineering in high-visibility program forums, design reviews, and leadership readouts
• Serve as the technical escalation point for complex manufacturing problems; break down ambiguous failures to their root physical and materials-level causes

Design for Manufacturability (DFM/DFx)

• Provide assertive, data-backed DFM feedback to design engineers - including those resistant to change - and drive producibility improvements that reduce cost and cycle time
• Engage early in the design lifecycle to influence hardware before it becomes expensive to change
• Lead DFM/DFA reviews
• Apply first-principles and materials science knowledge to evaluate design decisions at the physics level, not just the process level

Production Standup & New Product Introduction

• Lead manufacturing engineering support for the standup of the Electric Propulsion production line, from pilot through high-rate production
• Drive the transition from development to production: define processes, write work instructions, establish tooling and fixturing, and own the manufacturing readiness of

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