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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 diverse team of collaborators, doers, and problem-solvers who are relentlessly committed to a culture of safety. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable space flight. Join us in lowering the cost of access to space and enabling Blue Origin's vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit Earth. This role is part of Enterprise Program Management (EPM) where we provide technical standards, tools, processes, training and subject matter expertise for product engineering and manufacturing. EPM allows all Blue Origin business units to benefit from commonly used capabilities, hardware, and software and assists business units in identifying, selecting, and training engineers from both inside and outside the organization. As part of a passionate and accomplished team of experts, the Product Cost Engineer is responsible for developing cost estimates, analyzing cost drivers and driving execution of cost improvement initiatives for assigned programs. This position reporting to the Senior Manager, Cost Engineering will lead the development of cost models and analytics required to meet or exceed the cost targets for space flight programs. This includes working across engineering, procurement, manufacturing, mission operations and finance to collect estimation inputs and provide insightful outputs for decision making (make/buy, production plans etc.) and regular reporting of product cost status and outlook. The position will directly impact the history of space exploration by lowering the cost of access to space. We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required! Responsibilities: Collaborate cross-functionally to measure and reduce product lifecycle costs. Develop and manage a"single source of truth" for recurring cost and ops cost estimates and provide regular product cost variance analyses. Provide input for command media in gated reviews and development processes that deal with product cost requirements (business cases, design to cost targets, manufacturing readiness reviews, etc.). Ensure IPTs are accountable for their costs, know their targets, work with them to reduce variances. Partner with supply chain to identify opportunities for multiple sources, LTAs and preferred sourcing positions. Collaborate with the manufacturing operations to identify opportunities to reduce takt and end-to-end cycle times on work cell and component basis, improve yields and reduce scrap. Support Mission Operations to identify opportunities to reduce labor hours & cycle time through automation, effective sparing / logistics and lean events to eliminate unnecessary steps in processes. Lead priority kaizens to get cross-functional costs out of components and assemblies. Qualifications: 10+ years of experience with cost engineering/estimation of manufactured products Passion for our mission and vision! BS or MS degree or equivalent experience with emphasis in engineering, cost management, supply chain. Track record of demonstrated success and progressive responsibility increases. Demonstrated success leading by influence, defining analytical tools and processes. Highly effective and professional verbal and written communication skills, strong focus on teamwork and internal/external customer sati