This role is part of Blue Origin Operations, which is comprised of Integrated Supply Chain, Facilities, and Security. This includes Manufacturing and Supply Chain support across all Blue Origin facilities.

As part of a small, passionate and accomplished team of specialists, you will develop a coordinated manufacturing system enhancing innovative manufacturing processes to design and manufacture sophisticated space propulsion systems. Partnering with manufacturing and facilities, you’ll lead this process and gathers the manufacturing and facility needs, applies Lean techniques and creates meaningful foundations for high-efficiency manufacturing processes. Collaborating with automation engineers, process engineers, design and analysis engineers, machine and process operators, enterprise tool developers, and equipment and material vendors, you’ll identify requirements and opportunities for data, tools, equipment and workflow automation. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your dedicated commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable spaceflight.

Responsibilities:

• Lead manufacturing-related projects
• Provide production support - scheduling, theory of constraint, budget & forecast, crew empowerment, defect analysis, core proficiency definition, make/buy evaluation, benchmarking analysis
• Identify and prioritize process improvement project - lean manufacturing, engineering economic analysis, process mapping, root cause analysis, statistical methods, six sigma and time studies
• Lead operations improvement - ergonomic & human factor, operations plans, recovery planning, volume planning, and capital planning
• Facilitate system integration - Value Stream Analysis, Facility Layouts, Production Systems Design, Manufacturing Process Design, Systems Thinking, Facilities Planning, and Requirements

Qualifications:

• BS in Industrial, Manufacturing or Mechanical Engineering
• 5 years of experience working directly with manufacturing in a production environment
• Demonstrated ability in manufacturing and/or facilities planning
• Factory flow, process modeling and simulations experience
• Experience leading continuous improvement and value stream mapping events
• Strong analytic skills and a high degree of proficiency in analytics
• Exceptional with Excel and manual data analysis
• Excellent Interpersonal Communication Skills
• Self-Starter

Desired:

• Operations Management, Construction Management, MSE and/or MBA
• Rocket Engine Manufacturing Experience
• Project Management Certification (PMP)
• Six Sigma Black Belt Certification
• Experience transitioning development to production
• Space flight production experience
• Strong teaming skills
• Experience with manufacturing organizations and/or supply chain
• Hands-on experience with materials and manufacturing processes