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Blue Origin · 8 hours ago

Welding Engineer III

Greater Seattle Area

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$121K/yr - $169K/yr

5+ years exp

Blue Origin is a company focused on developing reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems. The Welding Engineer III will tackle material problems for the New Shepard program, developing processes and documentation while collaborating with various teams to optimize designs and processes.

AerospaceManufacturingNational SecurityRenewable Energy

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Develop, release, and maintain welding process documentation

Support procurement activities to support vehicle build schedules

Support integrated test objectives, data review, and reporting

Participate in subsystem level testing including planning, execution, data reduction and analysis

Work with multi-functional teams across multiple work sites that include design, analysis, materials, processes, structures, fluids, systems, procurement, and manufacturing

Qualification

Welding process documentationMaterial selectionMechanical engineeringAluminum welding methodsDesign for manufacturabilityGD&T familiarityRisk managementBudget managementMicrosoft Project familiarityLeadership skills

Required

B.S. degree or higher in mechanical, structural, or other relevant engineering field

5+ years in professional engineering experience

Strong fundamentals in mechanics of materials

Experience with large primary or secondary structures

Experience with material selection, compatibility, and metallic manufacturing techniques & product forms (e.g. sheet metal, machining, etc)

Familiarity with tolerance, GD&T and design for manufacturability

Hands on experience with hardware 'on the production floor' and/or 'in service'

Preferred

Experience with aluminum welding methods including friction stir welding and gas tungsten arc welding

Ability to work independently driving engineering from conceptual to released engineering and flight hardware

Experience designing for manufacturability and value engineering, with focus on cost reduction and build time hour optimization

Familiarity with Microsoft Project or another equivalent schedule software

Familiarity with budget management

Experience in risk management and consolidation of technical data for presentation to senior leadership

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.