Sr. Manager System Safety & Reliability

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!  

In this role, you will lead a team of system safety and reliability engineers across a portfolio of Blue Origin programs, serving multiple customers. Your team is responsible for establishing plans, quantifying resource needs and performing the system safety and reliability analyses, identifying hazards and mitigations, and providing a detailed record of the safety risk approach. This team works at the intersection of program management, design engineering, coordinated supply chain, and quality organizations. As a system safety & reliability manager, you must enjoy solving communication and organizational problems, earning trust, and improving the overall performance of all teams involved. You will be responsible for the employee lifecycle including performance management, career development, and training. You will also need to be an expert in reliability analyses and lead a team that is focused on improving the reliability of our manufacturing outputs.

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.

As part of a hardworking team of diverse specialists, technicians, and engineers (use as appropriate), you will partner with leaders from Blue’s programs and functional groups and lead your team to develop improvements to system safety and reliability processes and tools. We are developing a team culture where system safety and reliability engineering are deeply integrated into the design and development processes, because we believe that this integration done early and well leads to better outcomes and fewer program delays during development. We are seeking a self-motivated and highly organized individual who can work with minimal direction and coordinate teams in the successful execution of system safety activities.

Special Mentions

• Relocation provided
• Travel expected up to 15% of the time
• Interviews will include a technical assessment

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Lead the Reliability and System Safety teams in supporting programs and fucntional groups, including staffing, budget, performance, skills, etc.
• Serve as internal Reliability expert, guiding our approach.
• Provide direct program support.

Minimum Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to build trust and effective working relationships that improve team performance, deliver results, and contribute to a culture of inclusion.
• Experience managing and developing employees at all levels of experience.
• Experience in design, development, integration, or testing – preferably with aerospace hardware or sophisticated technical systems.
• Experience performing various reliability and system safety analyses with expert level proficiency such as: Functional Hazard Assessments (FHA), Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA).
• Knowledge of systems engineering practices throughout the product lifecycle.
• Knowledge of configuration management principles and practices.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• B.S./B.A. degree in engineering or a relevant technical field.
• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience implementing hazard mitigations into product definition artifacts (e.g. drawings).
• Experience leading large, complex system safety efforts.
• Technical expertise with launch vehicles, spacecraft, and test facilities.
• Experience developing reliability models of spacecraft, launch site and/or launch vehicle systems.
• Experience with reliability/life test design (failure modes discovery, life demonstration, and screening), Weibull analysis and parameter estimation, stress-strength interference analyses, probability distribution estimation, reliability growth modeling, and probabilistic risk analysis.
• Experience implementing, customizing or improving system safety policy and procedure for a development engineering environment and transitioning products to operation and production.
• Deep understanding of principles and practices for systems and reliability engineering.
• Experience with systems engineering tools such as DOORS, DNG, Sapphire, or similar.
• Experience working in a safety-critical environment.
• Ability to work independently on rapid development programs.
• Experience assessing compliance to regulatory requirements.
• Experience with the STPA safety process.
• Basic project management skills.

Compensation range for on-site WA applicants is $167,088-$233,923

Other site ranges may differ

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.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Blue Origin is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and is committed to attracting, retaining, and developing a highly qualified, diverse, and dedicated work force. Blue Origin hires and promotes people on the basis of their qualifications, performance, and abilities. We support the establishment and maintenance of a workplace that fosters trust, equality, and teamwork, in which all employees recognize and appreciate the diversity of individual team members. We provide all qualified applicants for employment and employees with equal opportunities for hire, promotion, and other terms and conditions of employment, regardless of their race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin/ethnicity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status, or any other status or characteristic protected by federal, state, and/or local law. Blue Origin will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws, including the Washington Fair Chance Act, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles Fair Chance in Hiring Ordinance, and other applicable laws. For more information on “EEO Is the Law,” please see here.

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