Engineer - Manufacturing Optimization II

Blue Origin•Huntsville, AL

About The Position

This role is part of Blue Origin Operations, which supports manufacturing and supply chain across Blue Origin facilities. As part of a small team of specialists, the engineer will develop, integrate, and qualify manufacturing processes and help improve the performance of manufacturing and test operations. The role supports the company’s efforts to make spaceflight safe, repeatable, and lower cost. Travel to other sites may be required, up to 20% of the time. The position focuses on production system execution, improvement workshop facilitation, manufacturing project leadership, process and operations improvement, production support, and integrated systems analysis. Applicants must meet the stated U.S. citizenship or immigration-status requirement. Blue Origin describes medical, dental, vision, insurance, leave, retirement, education support, stock options, and paid time off benefits; eligibility for some benefits and bonuses depends on role type and job level.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Science, or a business discipline.
Excellent interpersonal communication skills.
Critical thinking and ability to thoroughly execute assigned tasks without detailed instructions.
Strong analytical skills and high proficiency in data mining.
Outstanding Excel skills and manual data analysis ability.
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.

Nice To Haves

Master of Science or Business in Industrial Engineering, another engineering discipline, Data Analytics, Information Systems, or similar.
Demonstrated experience working directly with manufacturing in a production environment.
Demonstrated factory flow and process modeling and simulation experience.
Demonstrated experience leading continuous improvement and value stream mapping events.
Certifications demonstrating relevant knowledge, such as PMP or Lean Black Belt.
Experience transitioning development to production.
Strong teaming skills.
Hands-on experience with materials and manufacturing processes.

Responsibilities

Drive stable, repeatable production system performance through trend awareness, executive feedback, and coordination of critical actions.
Help plan, execute, and follow up on Kaizen Improvement Workshops, critical training sessions, and similar activities.
Lead manufacturing-related projects for cross-functional teams, establishing conditions for success across people, processes, and assets.
Apply process improvement methods, including Lean Manufacturing, engineering economic analysis, process mapping, root cause analysis, statistical methods, Six Sigma, time studies, waste reduction, and work sampling.
Support operations improvement involving ergonomics and human factors, operations plans, recovery planning, capacity planning, and capital planning.
Apply production support concepts including scheduling, Theory of Constraints, budgets and forecasts, crew empowerment, defect and benchmarking analysis, core competency definition, resource allocation, scenario planning, discrete event simulation, make/buy evaluations, and cost/price evaluations.
Apply integrated systems methods, including value stream analysis, manufacturing process design, and systems thinking.
Travel to other sites as needed; travel may be required up to 20% of the time.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
Basic and supplemental life insurance.
Paid parental leave.
Short- and long-term disability.
401(k) with company match of up to 5%.
Education Support Program.
Stock options for regular employees working at least 20 hours per week.
Paid time off of up to four weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours.
Up to 14 company-paid holidays.
Depending on role type and job level, employees may be eligible for benefits and bonuses based on company discretion; amounts and eligibility are not guaranteed.