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Blue Origin, LLC Product Cost Engineer III - Lunar Permanence in Denver, Colorado
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 Lunar Permanence business unit, which develops Blue Origin's multiple Blue Moon lander product lines. To further Blue Origin's mission of having millions of people living and working in space, we are building sustainable infrastructure for our transport of crew and cargo from Earth to the lunar surface.
As part of a passionate and accomplished team of experts, the Product Cost Engineer is responsible for developing cost estimates, analyzing cost drivers and driving execution of cost improvement initiatives for assigned programs. This position will lead the development of cost models and analytics required to meet or exceed the cost targets for space flight programs. This includes working across engineering, procurement, manufacturing, mission operations and finance to collect estimation inputs and provide insightful outputs for decision making and regular reporting of product cost status and outlook. The position will directly impact the history of space exploration by lowering the cost of access to space.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Collaborate cross-functionally to measure and reduce product lifecycle costs.
Develop and manage a"single source of truth" for recurring cost estimates and provide regular cost variance analyses vs. targets and actuals.
Provide input for command media in gated reviews and development processes that deal with product cost requirements (business cases, design to cost targets, manufacturing readiness reviews, etc.).
Work with IPTs to define targets and develop cost improvement roadmaps.
Partner with supply chain to identify opportunities for multiple sources, LTAs, and preferred sourcing positions.
Collaborate with the manufacturing operations to identify opportunities to reduce takt and end-to-end cycle times on work cell and component basis, improve yields and reduce scrap.
Support Mission Operations to identify opportunities to reduce labor hours & cycle time through automation, effective sparing / logistics and lean events to eliminate unnecessary steps in processes.
Lead priority kaizens to get cross-functional costs out of components and... For full info follow application link.
To conform to U.S. Government commercial space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), applicants for employment at Blue Origin must be a U.S. citizen or national, lawfully admitted for permanent residence into the U.S. (i.e. current green card holder), or lawfully admitted as a refugee or granted asylum under 8 U.S.C. 1157-1158. Learn more about the ITAR here.
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