Mission Assurance Director - New Shepard

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Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed.

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 is part of Blue Origin Operations, which is comprised of Integrated Supply Chain, Facilities, and Security, and Safety, Quality, and Mission Assurance. This includes Manufacturing and Supply Chain support across all Blue Origin facilities.

This role is part of the Safety, Quality, and Mission Assurance team. This team is focused on monitoring and assessing processes that guide Blue Origin’s design, manufacturing, and operations, ensuring system safety engineering, environmental health, and safety, product integrity, and continuous improvement processes.

We are a team of collaborators, doers, and problem-solvers who are relentlessly committed to system safety. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your dedication 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.

As part of a hardworking team of diverse specialists, technicians, and engineers, you will lead the safety and mission assurance effort for New Shepard. You will share in the team’s impact on all aspects of safety functions for the space launch vehicle program including design and certification, human-rating, operations, recovery, refurbishment, and re-flight. You will work and collaborate with senior managers in space systems across the company functional areas including engines to ensure safe and successful development, test, and operations. You will coordinate with the program to establish and refine risk thresholds and goals for safety and mission success. You will provide technical expertise to manufacturing and test activities to improve product safety, reliability, and quality.

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!

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate SQMA efforts with a matrixed team of system safety, reliability, product integrity, and mission assurance engineers to ensure safe and successful tests and missions.
• Define and monitor mission assurance program specifications and processes to assure mission and test success.
• Support the development, implementation and maintenance of quality policy and procedures, and safety policy and procedures including performing internal audits to assess.
• Provide inputs to test and mission program planning to ensure safety and mission assurance objectives are adequately addressed.
• Coordinate with program to establish and refine risk thresholds and goals for safety and mission success.
• Represent Mission Assurance at program, test, and material review boards.
• Provide disposition of risks relevant to safety and mission success.
• Ensure safety and reliability analyses are thorough, correct, and any derived requirements/mitigations are verified.
• Participate as a non-advocate for test stand and launch pad activation.
• Provide technical expertise to manufacturing and test activities to improve product safety, reliability, and quality.
• Provide non-advocate support to corrective and preventive action processes.
• Provide independent review of failure and defect root cause analyses, and mishap investigations.
• Establish, track, and report key performance metrics to SQMA to support Program goals.
• Travel approximately 25% of the time to test and launch sites.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field.
• 12+ years of experience in launch vehicle, test, operations, space vehicle maintenance, or industry relevant mission assurance analysis.
• Demonstrated success providing technical expertise to improve operational safety and reliability, and establishing risk thresholds that drive mission success.
• Strong proficiency with safety and mission assurance processes, analysis, and tools.
• Familiarity with system safety engineering, risk management, hazard analysis methods, and root cause analysis.
• Technical leadership experience with growing organizations, driving workforce culture and process change, and leading through influence.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a proven record of leading through influence.
• 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.

Desired:

• Advanced degree in aerospace, mechanical, electrical, or similar field.
• Launch vehicle and associated ground systems development experience.
• Continuous Improvement, Lean, Six Sigma knowledge and experience.
• Human spaceflight and launch vehicle certification experience.

Compensation Range for:

WA applicants is $164,682.00-$230,554.80

Other site ranges may differ

Culture Statement

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.

Export Control Regulations

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.

Background Check

• Required for all positions: Blue’s Standard Background Check

• Required for Certain Job Profiles: Defense Biometric Identification System (DBIDS) background check if at any time the role requires one to be on a military installation

• Required for Certain Job Profiles: Drivers who operate Commercial Motor Vehicles with a Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW), Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR) or combination of power unit and trailer that meets or exceeds 10,001 lbs. and/or transports placardable amounts of hazardous materials by ground in any vehicle on a public road while in commerce, may be subject to additional Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations including: Driver Qualification Files, Medical Certification, Road Test, Hours of Service, Drug and Alcohol Testing (CDL drivers only), vehicle inspection requirements, CDL requirements (if applicable) and hazardous materials transportation/shipping training.

Benefits

• Benefits include: 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.

• Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.

• Discretionary bonus: Bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results.

• Eligibility for benefits varies by role type, please check with your recruiter for a comprehensive list of the benefits available for this role.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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