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Blue Origin LLC Mechanical Engineer II - New Glenn Components in Seattle, Washington
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 diverse team of collaborators, doers, and problem- solvers who are relentlessly committed to a culture of safety. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable space flight. Join us in lowering the cost of access to space and enabling Blue Origin's vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit Earth. This role supports the development and operations of New Glenn, a single-configuration heavy-lift launch vehicle capable of routinely carrying people and payloads to Earth's orbit and beyond. Engineered with a reusable first stage and a seven-meter payload fairing, New Glenn is building the road to space. We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required! Applies engineering techniques to design, install, modify, analyze, repair and mechanical systems hardware. Role will have a strong emphasis on supporting integration activities. Specifically identifying available work and resolving roadblocks to facilitate integration tasks. Release, and support of engineering artifacts across the product life cycle to support hardware fabrication, assembly, verification, test and operations. Implements's operating procedures, resolves system malfunctions, and provides technical information. Researches and analyzes customer design proposals, specifications, manuals, and other data to evaluate the feasibility, cost, and maintenance requirements of designs or applications. Specifies system components or directs modification of products to ensure conformance with engineering design and performance specifications. Investigates equipment failures and difficulties to diagnose faulty operation, and to make recommendations to maintenance crew. Responsibilities: Complete tasks necessary to support integration of mechanical system components on GS1. Engage in the entire design cycle of mechanical subsystems, including conceptual design, structural layout and analysis, integration, test, and mission support Collaborate with many internal team members to define requirements, dependencies, and schedule needs associated with delivering integrated fluid systems Lead team-based identification, decomposition, and estimation of work scope for full lifecycle fluids hardware development Manage project schedule, resources, and cost - present status of effort, including risks, variances, and recovery plans to program management Integrate hardware schedules with program and vehicle schedules Work to continuously improve the team processes and manage team assignments to move quickly while meeting human space flight standards Continuously track all hardware technical performance measures to ensure the development team is meeting its defined performance goals Perform procurement, integration support, and discrepancy resolution Oversee fluid component and subsystem-level testing, including test planning, test execution, data reduction, and analysis Qualifications: Minimum of a B.S. degree in mechanical or aerospace engineering 2+ years of proven experience in detailed design/development of aerospace or equivalent-type fluid systems and project management Responsible Engineer designation to lead a system with multiple designers working under their direction Knowledge of fabrication, integration processes, and quality control relative to tubes/piping and machined components Soli