Production Vehicle Integration Lead

Application Close Date

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!

We are seeking a highly skilled Integration specialist to join our Operations team. The selected candidate will have the broad responsibility for directing rocket vehicle final and module integration activities, ensuring seamless coordination across engineering, test, and operation functions to drive an optimized manufacturing flow from start to finish. While this role is an individual contributor position, the influence of the role is significant, requiring both technical and personnel leadership to provide high-level direction to the team to deliver the integrated vehicle.

• Direct work within operations to support rocket final and module integration activities.
• Liaise and facilitate the efforts of a broad multi-functional group including design, manufacturing, and test engineering as well as supply chain and other operations teams to enable successful integration of the rocket.
• Take broad accountability to make informed decisions regarding build sequence and schedule to optimize efficiency and meet project timelines.
• Triage and provide engineering direction on off‐nominal and discrepant situations to enable production to move forward.
• Take ownership of the entire build flow, including reporting progress and challenges to leadership, recovery planning and continuous improvement of execution.
• Manage optimization activities to decrease unit lead time and cost to radically reduce the cost of access to space.
• Mitigate risks and manage impacts to ensure project objectives are achieved.
• Collaborate with multiple stakeholders to deliver the required verification artifacts at completion of build to successfully transfer the rocket into operational service.

• 5‑7 years of experience supporting complex engineered products.
• 2+ years of project management or system integration experience.
• Enjoy leading and participating in highly collaborative efforts and a desire to lead and manage small teams on a fast‑paced hardware and flight projects.
• Demonstrated ability building trusting and effective working relationships that improve team performance and deliver results.
• Demonstrated experience with core project management status skills including logic‑linked scheduling, budget and schedule variance tracking, and reporting project to leadership.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with experience communicating with teams of varying sizes.

• B.S. degree in aerospace, mechanical, industrial, or manufacturing engineering; physics; or other major requiring engineering or manufacturing core courses.
• Experience with budget and Cost Account Management such as EVM.
• Experience with risk management, configuration management, requirements management.
• Experience in Manufacturing Engineering, Production Engineering or similar experience working in vehicle integration and test.
• Experience across multiple portions of the product life cycle.
• Experience with human spaceflight or high‑performance systems.

• Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short and long‑term disability, 401(k) with company match 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 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. Bonus amounts and eligibility are not guaranteed and subject to change and cancellation.…