Manufacturing Engineer III – New Glenn - Friction Stir Welding

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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! 

In this role you will provide manufacturing direction on the integration of components for New Glenn. This role will require you to demonstrate your ability to proactively improve design for manufacturability, eliminate barriers, and tackle unforeseen technical problems. You will also be developing tooling requirements and designing simple tooling.

We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!

Responsibilities:

• Develop manufacturing work instructions to clearly define manufacturing processes for composites fabrication, inspection, trimming, and assembly.

• Closely manage quality, build sequence, and schedule of hardware throughout the entire manufacturing process.

• Perform engineering drawing review and provide final approval for manufacturing.

• Design and model simple tooling like drill jigs and create statement of work for complex tooling.

• Define and support repair and rework activities.

• Perform root cause analyses when non-conformances and escapes are identified and deploy corrective actions.

• Craft accurate material handling and packaging to protect hardware.

• Manage hardware configuration and maintain pedigree.

• Prioritize hardware procurement and fabrication and communicate these priorities to the team.

• Extreme customer focus combined with strong verbal and written communication.

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor of Science or equivalent in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Industrial, or Aerospace Engineering from an accredited university.

• 5+ years of direct manufacturing and manufacturing engineering experience.

• Understanding of engineering fundamentals for mechanical design and manufacturing including solid understanding of GD&T.

• Proficiency in 3D CAD programs (Creo Pro/E & CATIA preferred)

• High proficiency in friction stir welding

• Ability to manage a manufacturing bill of materials (MBOM), author work instructions, and disposition non-conforming material on the production floor

• A demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with teams of skills across large geographic distances.

• Strong written, personal, technical, and software skills (CAD, Scheduling, Issue Tracking, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc).

• Ability to develop processes to industry quality systems such as AS9100.

Desired: 

• Experience with aircraft, launch vehicle, spacecraft, or satellite development, production, or operations.

• Experience with tooling design, fabrication, and procurement

• Self-directed and able to balance several tasks at once.

Don’t meet all desired requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single desired qualification. At Blue Origin, we are dedicated to building an authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every desired qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.