Quality Engineer Sr.

BLUE ORIGIN • Huntsville, AL

1d • $113,925 - $181,720 • Onsite

About The Position

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! Join our Luxembourg team where your expertise directly contributes to humanity's greatest adventure, while maintaining the work-life harmony that makes great engineering possible. Be part of a collaborative, inclusive culture where safety and technical excellence drive every decision as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight from the heart of Europe. We are a diverse team of collaborators, doers, and problem-solvers who are relentlessly committed to a culture of safety. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable space flight. Join us in lowering the cost of access to space and enabling Blue Origin’s vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit Earth. In this role, you will establish, implement, maintain, and enforce quality system processes that support products in a production environment. As needed, measure, analyze, and improve quality system performance consistent with organization quality goals, integrate quality system applications between engineering, manufacturing, and operations to ensure the consistent and ongoing use of quality best practices and communication of quality issues, and facilitate troubleshooting of quality issues with diverse teams, lead causal analysis activities to drive to root cause and corrective action. In addition you will perform reviews and approve manufacturing build documents including work orders and nonconformance records. You will perform periodic audits of the application of our quality system in accordance with AS9100, recommend initiatives and/or changes that will improve product and system quality, and provide quality assurance subject matter expertise to inspection, manufacturing and test. Periodically, you will interface with internal and external customers on quality related concerns and develop training materials to build quality awareness. In this role you will report directly to the Director of Quality in Huntsville. As part of a diverse and hardworking team of specialists, you will share in the team’s impact on all aspects of developing, testing and launching Space systems to support Blue Origin’s Vision. 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!

Requirements

• Minimum of a B.S. in engineering/science or American Society of Quality, Certified Quality Engineer certification
• 10+ years’ industry experience in the engineering field with at least 8 years in a quality engineer role
• Quality assurance experience in production environment.
• Familiarity with AS9100 or ISO9000 Quality Management System and/or related quality systems and programs
• 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

• Aerospace, space launch, military/commercial aviation preferred
• Quality assurance experience in rocket engine production environment
• Relevant experience in transitioning a product from development, through production to operations
• Quality Management System audit experience
• Quality performance measurement analysis capabilities
• Six Sigma Green, Black Belt, or comparable certification

Responsibilities

• Establish, implement, maintain, and enforce quality system processes that support products in a production environment.
• Measure, analyze, and improve quality system performance consistent with organization quality goals.
• Integrate quality system applications between engineering, manufacturing, and operations to ensure the consistent and ongoing use of quality best practices and communication of quality issues.
• Facilitate troubleshooting of quality issues with diverse teams.
• Lead causal analysis activities to drive to root cause and corrective action.
• Perform reviews and approve manufacturing build documents including work orders and nonconformance records.
• Perform periodic audits of the application of our quality system in accordance with AS9100.
• Recommend initiatives and/or changes that will improve product and system quality.
• Provide quality assurance subject matter expertise to inspection, manufacturing and test.
• Interface with internal and external customers on quality related concerns.
• Develop training materials to build quality awareness.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability, 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%, and an Education Support Program.
• Stock Options for all regular employees (working at least 20 hours/week)
• Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.
• Dependent on role type and job level, employees may be eligible for benefits and bonuses based on the company's intent to reward individual contributions and enable them to share in the company's results, or other factors at the company's sole discretion.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior