Description:
The Tooling Engineering group interfaces directly with Program planning, vehicle design and production, launch systems, and other test and operational groups within Blue Origin. 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
- Coordinate directly with manufacturing, operations, and product development personnel to understand past, present, and future operational requirements for a specific production tooling line architecture.
- Serve as Production Line Tooling point of contact.
- Represent GSE/Tooling considerations in manufacturing, operational, and program technical reviews.
- Maintain and report on activity schedule, budget and status of all tooling in a specific production line.
- Understand complete lifecycle of production tooling
- Understand Milestones driving tooling and establish tooling need date to support production activities
- Identifying demand signals from the New Glenn Program, Build & Flow plans, hardware design groups, and Manufacturing teams, for new tooling needs
- Support securing program funding for new tools and defining basis of estimate
- Identify internal customer base (Program, Production, and Manufacturing) and ensure stakeholders are aligned on tooling needs
- Issue Tool Design Requests once tool definition has been established
- Support gated design process for new tools
- Understand current tooling design work and status
- Represent Tooling Engineering group in work center production readiness reviews
- Understand current production status relative to tooling, work in progress on the floor, and operability issues
Qualifications
- Passion for our mission: Millions of people living and working in space!
- Minimum of a bachelors college degree in mechanical, aerospace, electrical, structural, industrial, or manufacturing engineering; or other major requiring engineering or manufacturing core courses OR- equivalent experience
- 8+ years’ experience working in complex production environments
- Understanding of tooling for production, manufacturing, and testing with preferred field of launch vehicles and launch vehicle support systems.
- Self-directed and able to balance several tasks at one time
- Ability to communicate and document information effectively
- Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion.
- A continuous improvement mindset. Our job is never complete; we are always optimizing.
- 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.