Senior Range Safety Engineer – 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 supports the development and operations of New Glenn, a single-configuration, heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle capable of routinely carrying people and payloads to low-Earth orbit, geostationary transfer orbit, cislunar, and beyond. Its first stage is fully reusable, and the vehicle was designed from the beginning to be human-capable.

As part of a small, passionate, and accomplished team, you will help shape the standards and processes used to construct, operate and launch all Blue Origin vehicles.  You will have a shared responsibility for establishing and maintaining a culture of high operational excellence, and to safety of our people, products and programs at multiple levels ensuring that best practices are institutionalized and shared across programs. 

Additional responsibilities include:

• Serve as a subject matter expert on DOD/NASA hazardous siting standards including blast and fragmentation analysis, hazardous clear zone siting, and pneumatic energy release.
• Work within a small team to generate, refine, and implement company-wide standards and processes used to manage test operations for Blue Origin vehicles. Serve as a process and standard owner, and evangelize content across the company.
• Exhibit and maintain high standards for employees and cultivate a culture that emphasizes safety and operational excellence.
• Ability to understand the Maximum Credible Event of a large, pressurized test configuration to help determine the clear zone and potential danger to personnel and property based on fragmentation and overpressure. 
• Recommend mitigations to use during testing to minimize risk to personnel and property during pneumatic testing.
• Create and manage Hazardous Site Plans to ensure Hazardous Fragment Distance assumptions and calculations are correct to protect personnel during pneumatic testing
• Lead decisions on facility siting and test facility design based on expected test usage.

We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to safety and quality to advise on the technical basis for adjusting clear zone for executing safe and efficient test plans for rocket components. 

Qualifications:

• Passion for our mission: Millions of people living and working in space!
• B.S. degree in engineering or physics
• 15+ years of relevant experience as a member of a mature and professional operations team performing dynamic, high consequence operations or testing.
• 5+ years of relevant experience leading teams in the disciplined conduct of dynamic, high consequence operations or testing
• Ability to work effectively in collaboration with diverse groups of people
• Requirements development experience and strong technical writing skills
• Self-starter with a continuous improvement mindset and ability to learn
• Skills, experience, and ability to perform a lead role in safe ballistic test operations
  • Strong leadership skills
  • Relevant operations experience
  • Strong safety culture
  • Very high judgement and ability perform duties in high pressure situations
• Experience leading, mentoring and managing a small team in challenging, fast paced environment
• Ability to travel up to 25% of time
• 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.
• Familiarity with DoD 6055.9 or NASA-STD-8719.12A required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience training and developing operations personnel
• COPV Manufacturing & Test Experience

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed.

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.

Export Control Regulations

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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