As part of a hardworking team of diverse specialists, technicians, and engineers, you will work with a team of manufacturing, mission operations, and design teams while growing a team of Industrial Engineers. We seek people who are passionate about space and possess a strong desire to continuously learn and improve.

We are seeking a proactive, collaborative individual with excellent project management acuity, analytical ability, and team development skills that can thrive in a fast-paced environment while developing procedures within the team. In addition to people management, you will also be responsible for direct technical support to the site (60% manager, 40% individual contributor). We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and dedication to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!

Special Mentions:

• Relocation provided
• Travel expected up to 20% of the time

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Organize, hire, and equip the team and assure that they are trained and capable:
• Set, execute and achieve team goals.
• Develop and maintain team performance metrics.
• Provide training to a team of professional highly technical Industrial Engineers on best practices.
• Help coordinate access to key technical resources (e.g., standards, journals, references).
• Develop technical work instructions for industrial engineering scope of work.
• Help develop, maintain, and implement a plan for acquiring software, models, analysis tools needed, and processes for capturing best practices.
• Coordinate and integrate with other functional groups across the company.
• Staff projects appropriately, reconciling project needs with staff capabilities and time commitments.
• Manage your direct reports' professional development (e.g., hiring, performance evaluations, compensation and promotion management, routine one-on-one development conversations) and coach them to perform.
• Ensure staff are properly trained, including to operate within the Blue Origin safety culture.
• Proactively counsel your employees' career growth, by understanding their unique goals, capabilities, and experience to match against current and future needs.
• Facilitate development opportunities for your employees to align with the larger Industrial Engineering team capability gaps, advance the capabilities of the team's community of practice, and increase employee satisfaction.
• Perform technical work and provide technical leadership in the fields of:
• Lead and complete quarterly rate study analysis.
• Provide input and critical data to support Financial Planning processes.
• Lead Manufacturing-related Projects.
• Production Support- Production Scheduling, Inventory, Theory of Constraints, Budgets and Forecasts, Crew Empowerment, Defect Analysis and Benchmarking Analysis, Core Competency Definition, Resource Allocation, Scenario Planning, Discrete Event Simulation, Make/Buy Evaluations, and Cost/Price Evaluations.
• Process Improvement- Lean Manufacturing, Engineering Economic Analysis, Process Mapping, Root Cause Analysis, Statistical Methods, Six Sigma, Time Studies, Waste Reduction, and Work Sampling.
• Operations improvement- Ergonomic and Human Factors, Operations Plans, Recovery planning, Capacity planning, Capital planning.
• Integrated Systems- Value Stream Analysis, Facility Layouts, Production Systems Design, Manufacturing Process Design, Systems Thinking, Facilities Planning, and Requirements.
• Embody, promote, and coach the Blue Origin leadership principles.

Minimum Qualifications

• BS in Operations Research, Industrial, or Manufacturing Engineering
• Operations Management, Construction Management, MSE and/or MBA
• proven experience working directly with manufacturing in a production environment
• Experience in high and low volume manufacturing
• Experience with facilities planning
• 3 years of factory flow and process modeling and simulations experience
• 3 years of experience leading continuous improvement and value stream mapping events
• Strong analytic skill set and a high degree of proficiency in data mining
• Exceptional with Excel, Tableau and manual data analysis
• Excellent Interpersonal Communication Skills
• Self-Starter
• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3 years of team management/leadership experience
• Experience with manufacturing organizations and/or supply chain
• Experience with long-term forecasting of staffing and equipment requirements
• Project Management Certification (PMP)
• Six Sigma Black Belt Certification
• Experience transitioning development to production
• Human-rated space flight production experience
• Strong teaming skills
• Experience with manufacturing organizations and/or supply chain
• Hands-on experience with materials and manufacturing processes