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Blue Origin LLC Engineer - Quality & Continuous Improvement III 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! This role is part of the Safety, Quality, & Mission Assurance team. This team is focused on monitoring and assessing processes that guide Blue Origin design, manufacture, and operations, ensuring system safety engineering, environmental health and safety, product integrity and continuous improvement processes serve the Blue Origin Mission and Vision. As part of a diverse and hardworking team of Quality Engineers, you will share in the team's impact on all aspects of developing, testing, and launching Space systems to support Blue Origin's Vision. In this role, you will establish, implement, maintain, and enforce quality system processes that support Test and Flight ground systems. As needed, measure, analyze, and improve quality system performance consistent with organization quality goals, integrate quality system applications between engineering, project management, and operations to ensure the consistent and ongoing use of quality standard methodologies and communication of quality issues, and facilitate solving of quality issues with diverse teams, lead causal analysis activities to drive to root cause and corrective action. In addition, you will perform reviews and approve fabrication build documents including work orders and nonconformance records. You will perform periodic audits of the application of our quality system in accordance with AS9100, recommend initiatives and/or changes that will improve product and system quality, and provide quality assurance domain expertise to inspection, fabrication, and test. Periodically, you will work with internal and external customers on quality related concerns and develop training materials to build quality awareness. You will report directly to the Quality Engineering Manager. Special Mentions Relocation provided Travel expected up to 30% of the time Responsibilities: Work hand-in-hand with Contractors and subcontractors to develop and implement project-specific QA/QC plan with scopes of work and work procedures Implement project-specific QA/QC Plan in coordination with the project safety plan Establish and maintain working relationships with contractors, subcontractors, architects, consultants, and vendors to ensure that the QA/AC Plan delivers a fully compliant project Conduct testing and inspections and arrange for third-party testing and inspections, as well as analyze and report results Review of anomalies and non-conformances due to fabrication, modification, and testing activities Lead ground system acceptance reviews and ensure alignment to and health of acceptance process Quality Assurance lead on Anomaly Review Board meetings for all nonconforming work Facilitate solving of quality issues with diverse teams, lead causal analysis activities to aim to root cause and corrective action Provide Quality support across multiple programs and work centers Perform program process surveillance ensuring compliance to requirements Provide experience within a start-up environment, transitioning a product from development, through fabrication to operations Qualifications: Minimum of a B.S. in Engineering/Science or related 5+ years' proven experience in Quality, Engineering and/or Ground Support Systems role in a program management environment. Familiarity with AS9100 or ISO9000 QM System and/or related quality systems and programs Excellent communication skills, organized, attention to detail, and self-starter Ability to support program management schedules (first or second shift) and overtime on as needed basis Ability to earn trust, maintain po

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