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Blue Origin LLC Safety and Mission Assurance Director - Lunar 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, 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. 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 mission-driven team of diverse collaborators, doers, and problem-solvers relentlessly committed to a culture of safety. As part of a hardworking team of diverse specialists, technicians, and engineers, you will lead the safety and mission assurance effort for space systems. You will share in the team's impact on all aspects of safety functions for the lunar transport program including design and certification, human-rating, operations, recovery, refurbishment, and re-flight. You will work and collaborate with senior managers in space systems across the company functional areas including engines to ensure safe and successful development, test, and operations. You will coordinate with the program to establish and refine risk thresholds and goals for safety and mission success. You will provide technical expertise to manufacturing and test activities to improve product safety, reliability, and quality. This role is on site from a location listed, and relocation is provided. Responsibilities: Lead a matrixed team of system safety, reliability, product integrity, and mission assurance engineers to ensure safe and successful missions. Provide inputs to program planning to ensure safety and mission assurance objectives are adequately addressed. Coordinate with program to establish and refine risk thresholds and goals for safety and mission success. Provide SQMA disposition of risks to safety and mission success. Ensure safety and reliability analyses are thorough, correct, and any derived requirements/mitigations are verified. Participate as a non-advocate in gating engineering, production, test, and mission operations reviews at all technical levels. Provide technical expertise to manufacturing and test activities to improve product safety, reliability, and quality. Provide non-advocate support to corrective and preventive action processes. Provide independent review of failure and defect root cause analyses, and mishap investigations. Establish, track, and report key performance metrics to SQMA to support Lunar goals. Review and provide SQMA disposition of significant changes to, or shortfalls against, the human flight certification baseline. Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in a technical field. 12+ years of experience in rocket engine or spacecraft development and operations, or industry relevant mission assurance analysis. Experience providing technical expertise to improve operational safety and reliability, and establishing risk thresholds that drive mission success. Strong proficiency with safety and mission assurance processes, analysis, and tools. Familiarity with system safety engineering, risk management, hazard analysis methods, and root cause analysis. Technical leadership experience with growing organizations, driving workforce culture and process change, and leading through influence. Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent