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!

Safety, Quality, and Mission Assurance: 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 At Blue Origin, we are seeking a proactive Quality Control Supervisor to lead the validation of our aerospace components against strict engineering requirements, procedures, and standards. In this pivotal role, you will manage and oversee the dedicated team responsible for performing routine and specialized inspections, tests, and audits on diverse parts, assemblies, and finished products. Your remit includes ensuring adherence to the highest benchmarks defined by our precision engineering standards, where every component is expected to meet rigorous space-grade quality specifications.

Tasked with seamless enforcement of quality standards, you will lead thorough inspections following established practices, utilizing a range of measuring tools, to ascertain conformity with detailed engineering blueprints and documentation. You will be at the forefront of establishing, implementing, and supervising inspection protocols, improving inspection processes as needed to realign with the cutting-edge developments in aerospace quality.

A key part of your role involves leveraging data and trend analysis to identify recurring defects or non-conformance patterns. Proactively analyzing these trends, you will accurately pinpoint systemic issues, which will form the basis of comprehensive reports and recommendations shared with Quality Engineers and management teams. By doing so, you will contribute significantly to continuous improvement initiatives, preventing future quality issues and enhancing the integrity of Blue Origin's product line.

In order to maintain Blue Origin's unwavering commitment to excellence, you will coordinate equipment calibration, champion the precise documentation of insights gleaned from quality testing, and verify adherence to statistical process controls. Your strategic approach to trend analysis, coupled with a robust feedback loop with the engineering and quality teams, will elevate our quality standards, thereby fostering Blue Origin's mission to build a future where millions can live and work in space.

Qualifications

• Passion for our mission: Millions of people living and working in space!
• 5 years of minimum experience inspecting aerospace components precision hand Tools, Articulating Romer ARM and/or CMMs
• Troubleshooting, Root cause and corrective action analysis experience
• Understand the department KPI's metrics to improve performance.
• Excellent blueprint reading skills including GD&T per ASME Y14.5M-2018 standard.
• Strong communication skills with a heavy customer focus
• Must have a continuous improvement attitude.
• Clear understanding of production versus development environments
• Familiar with use of personal computers
• Self-motivation and ability to prioritize projects to meet completion dates.
• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Supervises the work center operations overseeing all functions of planning, scheduling, prioritizing, inspecting and operations.
• Implements strategies meant to improve the organization's financial performance and driven positioning through continuous improvement of production-related processes
• Identifies inspection processes or procedures that could benefit from process improvement or efficiency optimization and approves the implementation of changes.
• Conduct performance reviews of employees.
• Mentor others and is responsible for the accuracy of the work of others through periodic review.
• Responsible for establishing workstation assignments, employee training, overtime assignments and back-up for absent employees.
• Communicate with other teams for schedule status to ensure meeting customer expectations.
• Provide first level customer concern support to employees regarding HR issues (employee relations, worker's compensation, disciplinary actions, timecards, PTO requests
• Identifying Continuous Improvement opportunities and implementing change to improve process, reduce cycle and setup times.
• Ensure all team members follow work instructions, quality requirements and processes Namely clock-in/clock-out activities
• Provide continued training and skills development for team members, and mentor early career team member.
• Perform documentation review and verification of certifications, specifications, and conformance to design and specification requirements.
• Support quality management system policies and procedure documentation, assess compliance to company and industry standards, initiate and lead continual improvement and Lean manufacturing initiatives.
• Develops relationships within and outside the team and acts as prime contact on inspections requiring coordination between organizations.

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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Applicants wishing to receive information on Blue Origin's Affirmative Action Plans, or applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in the application and/or interview process, please contact us atEEOCompliance@blueorigin.com.

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