Production Engineer III - New Glenn

New Glenn Structural Engineer

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 supports the development and operations of New Glenn, a single-configuration, heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle capable of routinely carrying people and payloads to low-Earth orbit, geostationary transfer orbit, cislunar, and beyond. Its first stage is fully reusable, and the vehicle was designed from the beginning to be human-capable.

As part of a small, hard-working, and accomplished team of experts you will lead the design, development, and test various spaceflight systems. You will share toward the team's impact on all aspects of structures, mechanical systems, and operation. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your dedicated commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable spaceflight.

This role is to support the weekend shift operations, ensuring continuity and efficiency in the development and testing processes. 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:

• Serves as the primary liaison between engineering and production.
• Applies engineering techniques to design, install, modify, analyze, repair structural, mechanical systems, and fluids hardware.
• Interpret engineering models, drawings, specification, work instructions and test procedures to support nonconformance review assessments.
• Specifies system components or directs modification of products to ensure conformance with engineering design and performance specifications.
• Support integration activities, such as identifying available work and resolving roadblocks for integration tasks.
• Use 3D CAD programs and FEA tools to analyze pressurized systems and primary/secondary structures.
• Release, and support of engineering artifacts across the product life cycle to support hardware fabrication, assembly, verification, test and operations.
• Resolves system malfunctions, and provides technical guidance to production.
• Investigates equipment failures and difficulties to diagnose faulty operation, and to make recommendations to maintenance crew.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Passion for Mission
• B.S. degree or higher in Mechanical, Aerospace, or similar engineering field
• 5+ years of professional experience supporting production and integration of mechanical system elements within aerospace, defense, automotive, or similar industry
• Proven success supporting Material Review assessments and analysis for nonconformances
• Proficiency with 3D modeling tools
• Experience with GD&T (ASME Y14.5)
• Knowledge of fabrication, integration processes, and quality control relative to mechanical and structural hardware
• Experience and ability to work independently on rapid development programs

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in primary structures and mechanical systems design
• Experience in aerospace deployable devices design such as doors, landing gear or sensors
• Experience in aerospace hydraulic system component design or system architecture design
• Experience in Creo (Pro-E)
• Experience in structural FEA using ANSYS, NASTRAN or similar tools

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.

Applicants for employment at Blue Origin must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e. current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Blue Origin is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and is committed to attracting, retaining, and developing a highly qualified and dedicated work force. Blue Origin hires and promotes people on the basis of their qualifications, performance, and abilities. We support the establishment and maintenance of a workplace that fosters trust, equality, and teamwork. We provide all qualified applicants for employment and employees with equal opportunities for hire, promotion, and other terms and conditions of employment, regardless of their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin/ethnicity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status, or any other status or characteristic protected by federal, state, and/or local law.