Manufacturing Engineer - SWORD

Blue Origin•Titusville, FL

About The Position

This hands-on role is part of Blue Origin Operations, which supports manufacturing and supply chain across Blue Origin facilities. The team works in a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion and uses a rapid iterative development mindset. The position requires strong communication, engineering fundamentals, and the ability to make products. The Manufacturing Engineer collaborates with engineering and planning/scheduling teams to develop and deliver hardware, tools, and complex engineered products to internal customers. The role champions manufacturing processes and plans for development hardware and tooling, provides design-for-manufacturing guidance, reviews and approves engineering drawings, and authors work-order instructions. It also identifies manufacturing capabilities, supports repair and rework, designs tooling and fixtures, manages requirement updates during builds, and contributes hands-on to manufacturing and development activities as needed. Applicants must meet Blue Origin’s stated U.S. status requirements: U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted to the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. Background checks may apply according to the role profile.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical, Manufacturing, Industrial, Electrical, Chemical, or Aerospace Engineering.
At least 8 years of experience in a manufacturing environment producing complex products, such as aerostructures, space systems, aerospace products, avionics subsystems, aircraft assemblies, medical devices, or semiconductor equipment.
Experience with PLM and MES enterprise products.
Experience authoring work-order instructions, SOPs, process flow maps, or similar documentation.
Working knowledge of relevant manufacturing processes, including machining, welding, waterjets, coatings, additive manufacturing, precision cleaning, assembly, inspection, and metrology, and the ability to evaluate their applicability.
Experience planning the sequencing of manufacturing processes for feature-rich detail parts or complex subassemblies.
Demonstrated success in a constantly evolving environment, including taking on challenges with incomplete information and pivoting to drive progress.
Ability to work collaboratively and contribute hands-on to manufacturing as needed.
Consistent manufacturing experience directly related to part machining.
Understanding of mechanical design and manufacturing fundamentals, including working knowledge of GD&T.
Strong written, interpersonal, technical, and software skills, including CAD, scheduling, issue tracking, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
Strong customer focus and verbal and written communication skills.
Ability to work cooperatively with teams distributed across large geographic distances.
Proficiency in CAD.
Physical ability to support manufacturing and fabrication floor activities, climb stairs, work in small areas, and lift and carry 40 pounds.
Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted to the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a rapid development environment.
Experience in an aerospace manufacturing facility.
Experience with Siemens NX (Designcenter).
Experience with Siemens Teamcenter and Opcenter.
Experience with MOM enterprise products for scheduling critical-timeline manufacturing operations, preferably Siemens Opcenter APS.
Broad experience with manufacturing processes such as welding, assembly, integration, instrumentation, cleaning, non-destructive testing, leak testing, fabrication, and machining.
Tooling and fixture design experience.
Hands-on experience with machining, familiarity with CNC programming, welding, or additive manufacturing.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with engineering teams during hardware design, development, and delivery.
Work cross-functionally with planner/scheduler team members to support accurate, on-time delivery of complex engineered products and tools to internal customers.
Champion build processes with internal customers, challenge requirements, and manage manufacturing plans for development hardware and tooling.
Provide guidance on design for manufacturing, build requirements, process sequencing, engineering requirements, industry standards, GD&T, materials, and inspection.
Review engineering drawings and provide final approval for manufacturing complex parts and assemblies.
Author work-order instructions that identify key processes and outline the manufacturing order of operations.
Balance technical detail with simplified processes and instructions to streamline downstream manufacturing.
Identify manufacturing processes and capabilities needed to support critical schedules.
Define and support repair and rework activities.
Design tooling and fixtures to facilitate manufacturing.
Develop engineering solutions and own the communication of mid-build requirement updates to the team as needed.
Contribute hands-on to manufacturing and development efforts as required.

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.
Employees may be eligible for benefits and bonuses based on role type, job level, individual contributions, company results, or other factors; amounts and eligibility are not guaranteed.