Technician - Custom Machinery Assembly III

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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. This role supports the build, commissioning, and sustainment of a family of advanced custom precision machines built entirely in-house at Blue Origin. These are not purchased tools with a service contract behind them - we architect them, build them, instrument them, break them, and make them production-worthy ourselves. Each system is a large-envelope, multi-axis, closed-loop precision platform operating inside a sealed process volume, coordinating motion, thermal, fluid, and optical subsystems to hold micron-class positional accuracy across a meter-scale working envelope - continuously, for weeks at a time, without operator intervention. As a Technician III you are the person who makes that real. You will assemble and align the mechanisms, bring new machines to life, and keep a fleet of them holding tolerance under production load. When a machine goes down, engine hardware stops moving - and you are the first line of response. This is a technician seat on a small team that owns its hardware end to end. You will work shoulder to shoulder with the design engineers who drew the parts you are installing, and your feedback changes the drawings. The machines are in production today and the next-generation configuration is in active design, so you will build new hardware and sustain fielded hardware in the same week. Passion for our mission and vision is required. Special Mentions

• Relocation provided
• This position may require shift work, extended hours, weekend coverage, or on-call response to support machines running continuous builds
• Interviews will include a hands-on technical assessment
• On-site role - this hardware cannot be supported remotely

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Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Perform precision mechanical assembly of multi-axis motion subsystems - gantry structures, linear rails and carriages, dual-motor coupled axes, vertical lift stages, traversing mechanisms, and precision blade and wiper assemblies - working from engineering drawings, assembly instructions, and work orders
• Install, align, and verify high-resolution linear encoder feedback systems, including read-head air-gap setting, scale alignment, and shield termination
• Execute machine alignment and calibration campaigns using precision metrology - dial

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