Director Quality Program Management

Application close date: 11/30/2026 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, Test Operations, Safety, Quality, and Mission Assurance.

This includes Manufacturing and Supply Chain support across all Blue Origin facilities. This role is part of the Blue Origin Operations, which is comprised of Integrated Supply Chain, Test Operations, Safety, Quality, and Mission Assurance. This includes Manufacturing and Supply Chain support across all Blue Origin facilities. The Director of Quality Program Management (QPM) is a leader who believes in strong partnerships and provides strategic leadership and enterprise-wide oversight of the QPM organization, ensuring that quality is embedded as a foundational discipline across all Blue Origin programs, business units, and manufacturing sites.

This leader establishes standards between engineering, operations, supply chain, and executive leadership — translating quality data into strategic action and driving a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, and mission assurance across all Blue Origin programs. In this role, you will lead the Quality Program Management team of individual contributors. You will set the vision, drive continuous improvement, and partner with your cross-functional leaders across Blue Origin.

You will have a passion for solving sophisticated problems and providing operable solutions; responsibly take initiative under minimal direction; and be adaptable as you will work on a variety of applications and systems. We are looking for an individual that can implement innovative quality management system solutions, supporting accelerated manufacturing production, innovative technology and research activities, as well as efficient, predictable production capable solutions that will support space manufacturing & launch.

This position will fall under the Sr. Director of Quality Assurance and directly impact the history of space exploration. It will require dedication and detailed attention towards excelling safe and reusable space flight. This role is part of the Safety, Quality, and Mission Assurance team, which focuses on monitoring and assessing processes that guide Blue Origin design, manufacture, and operations, ensuring system safety engineering, environmental health and safety, product integrity, and continuous improvement processes serve the Blue Origin Mission and Vision.

Directly manage and develop a team of QPMs embedded across New Glenn, Engines, Lunar Permanence, and emerging programs; define and manage a QPM competency model and career architecture — establishing clear expectations, skills, and growth criteria within the quality organization, creating a transparent and motivating career path within the function; champion a high-performance culture grounded in technical rigor and ownership; ensure QPMs are fluent in data-driven quality methods and are using AI/analytics as a core part of their program engagement model Drive Business Unit engagement and maintain strategic partnerships by serving as the senior quality interface to Business Unit leaders, Program Directors, Customers, and Chief Engineers;

driving early and active quality involvement in the gated review process; champion the use of structured quality planning tools (APQP, FMEA); owning quality input into the integrated master schedules, including defined quality hold…