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Lead Manufacturing Engineer
Blue Origin · Huntsville, AL · Posted 4 days ago
Set manufacturing standards across BE-7 qualification and Blue Thrusters variants, moving from R&D to 1,000+ units/year while building the team's automation and AI capability.
Senior Manufacturing Engineer – BE-7 & Blue Thrusters Location: Huntsville, AL | Shift: A Shift, Monday–Friday | Level: Engineer – Manufacturing Sr (L4)
About the Role Blue Origin is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Engineer to serve as the Manufacturing Engineering Subject Matter Expert across two of our most critical propulsion programs: BE-7 and Blue Thrusters. This is a high-visibility, high-impact staff role reporting directly to the Director of Operations. BE-7 is entering qualification with production on the near horizon. Blue Thrusters encompasses multiple thruster variants currently in research and development, all requiring rapid transition to production. This person will be the connective tissue across both programs — setting the manufacturing standard, driving speed and decisiveness, and building the ME capability of the entire team.
This is not a role for someone who optimizes things that shouldn't exist. We need someone who can identify waste at its root, eliminate it, and teach others to do the same.
Key Responsibilities
Cross-Program ME Leadership
- Serve as the Manufacturing Engineering SME across BE-7 and Blue Thrusters value streams, splitting time equally between both programs
- Establish and enforce manufacturing best practices across all ME value streams; mentor and guide MEs at all levels to raise the technical floor of the entire organization
- Drive a culture of speed, decisiveness, and first-principles thinking — challenge MEs to eliminate processes that shouldn't exist before optimizing the ones that should
- Represent Manufacturing Engineering in high-visibility program forums, design reviews, and leadership readouts
- Serve as the technical escalation point for complex manufacturing problems across both programs; break down ambiguous failures to their root physical and materials-level causes
Design for Manufacturability (DFM/DFx)
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