Overview

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.

As part of a small, passionate and accomplished team of experts, you will be responsible for all manufacturing and fabrication operations for complex tanks and tube assemblies using gas tungsten arc (GTAW), plasma arc (PA), and variable polarity plasma arc (VPPA) in support of various spaceflight systems. You will share in the team’s impact on all aspects of these operations ensuring safety, quality, and productivity.

We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight.

Responsibilities:

  • Perform a wide range of routine to complex manual/automated GTAW, PA, and VPPA welds on several different metals i.e. stainless, Inconel, titanium, and aluminum alloys etc.
  • Work with an interdisciplinary team of manufacturing, tooling, and welding engineers to develop tooling and welding procedures for flight hardware
  • Clean, fit, locate components into weld fixtures for tacking and final assembly welding
  • Read blueprints and understand Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing
  • Utilize standard inspection tools to verify parts meet print specifications
  • Determine weld discrepancies visually and adjust controls as need to produce conformant parts
  • Verify product quality by performing 3D inspections, tool certifications, CAD comparison, dimensional analysis, or reverse engineering
  • Coordinate with management, expeditors, production control and all appropriate parties to ensure work order tasks are complete and accurate
  • General shop skills including Foreign Object and Debris (FOD) prevention, material handling, safety, calibration requirements, ESD, and contamination control of precision clean systems
  • Travel as needed to support design review, system buyoff, or off-site development activities
  • Maintain safe, clean, organized work area to ensure 5s work environment
  • Work requires the ability to change into or out of personal protective equipment when entering or exiting manufacturing, laboratory, or other areas

Qualifications:

  • High School or GED
  • 5+ years welding experience in an aerospace or precision manufacturing production environment
  • Experience welding stainless steel, Inconel, titanium, and aluminum materials
  • Welding using GTAW, PA, and/or VPPA welding processes with wire feed
  • Fully understand X,Y and Z coordinate geometry
  • Must be able to frequently lift, carry, push, or pull up to 50lbs.
  • 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.

Desired:

  • Some technical coursework and/or AA technical degree/equivalent
  • Performance of Class A welds in accordance with AWS D17.1
  • Well versed in aerospace manufacturing specifications for large complex thick walled tubes, thin wall ducts, and welded assemblies.
  • Operation, programming, calibration, maintenance, troubleshooting, and repair of mechanized welding systems with wire feed.
  • Ability to operate material handling equipment (forklift, crane, hoist, man lift, etc.)
  • Work 1st or 2nd shift, as well as weekends and overtime, when necessary.

ITAR Requirements

To conform to U.S. Government commercial space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a)(3), applicants for employment at Blue Origin must be a U.S. citizen or national, lawfully admitted for permanent residence into the U.S. (i.e. current green card holder), or lawfully admitted as a refugee or granted asylum under 8 U.S.C. § 1157-1158. Learn more about the ITAR here .

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. For more information on “EEO Is the Law,” please see here and here .

Applicants wishing to view a copy of 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 at EEOCompliance@blueorigin.com .

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