Safety and Mission Assurance Director - New Glenn

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 diverse team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight!

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.

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 diverse team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight!

We are a mission-driven team of diverse collaborators, doers, and problem-solvers relentlessly committed to a culture of safety.

As part of a hardworking and accomplished team you will lead, coordinate, and take responsibility for all Safety, Quality, and Mission Assurance (SQMA) functions, activities, and deliverables for the New Glenn launch vehicle program including design and certification, human-rating, operations, recovery, refurbishment, and re-flight.

You will work and collaborate with senior managers in New Glenn and across the company functional areas including engines to ensure safe and successful development, test, and operations of the New Glenn program.

Responsibilities :

• Lead a matrixed team of system safety, reliability, product integrity, and mission assurance engineers to ensure safe and successful missions.
• Provide inputs to 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.
• Provide SQMA disposition of risks 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 in gating engineering, production, test, and mission operations reviews at all technical levels.
• 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 New Glenn goals.
• Review and provide SQMA disposition of significant changes to, or shortfalls against, the human flight certification baseline.

Qualifications :

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field.
• 12+ years of experience in launch vehicle or spacecraft development and operations, 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.
• 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 onsite WA applicants is $185,094 - $259,131.60

Other site ranges may differ

Inclusivity 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 a diverse, inclusive, and 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.

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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.

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.

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