[Hiring] Senior Quality Program Manager @BLUE ORIGIN

Role Description

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 team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight!

This role is part of Blue Origin Operations, which is comprised of Integrated Supply Chain, Test Operations, Safety, Quality, and Mission Assurance. This includes Manufacturing and Supply Chain support across all Blue Origin facilities.

The Quality Program Management Team is dedicated to ensuring quality requirements are met for each program within Blue Origin. The team works as a conduit of information from the program back to the site quality organizations.

We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and dedication to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!

This role is part of the Safety, Quality, and Mission Assurance team, which focuses 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.

Primary Responsibilities

• Program Quality Leadership
  • Serve as the primary Quality focal point for program leadership and conduit between the program and functional/site Quality organizations.
  • Develop, maintain, and execute the Program Quality Plan and Quality strategy across the product lifecycle.
  • Present Quality status, metrics, risks, resource needs, and readiness to program and Quality leadership.
  • Find opportunities for continuous improvement of quality processes and requirements, including the use of AI/analytics tools to support data trending and decision-making.
  • Lead and support program-level risk boards, material review activities, corrective action boards, and resolution of systemic Quality issues.
• Quality Strategy & Planning
  • Establish and monitor Program Quality readiness criteria, risks, actions, and required artifacts at major development and production milestones.
  • Provide program-level governance of APQP, ensuring the appropriate functions execute required product and process quality-planning activities.
  • Develop and maintain the Program Quality staffing, capacity, inspection, equipment, and infrastructure strategy aligned with development builds and planned production-rate increases.
• Manufacturing & Production Readiness
  • Support manufacturing and production readiness, including process capability, inspection strategy, PFMEA/control planning, nonconformance management, corrective action, and rate-readiness activities through the responsible functional teams.
  • Partner with Engineering and Product Quality to ensure design risks and Quality outputs are transitioned into supplier, manufacturing, inspection, and production-readiness activities.
• Supplier Quality Integration
  • Coordinate Quality input to supplier strategy, sourcing, supplier readiness, FAI/PPAP requirements, and supplier performance in partnership with Supplier Quality.
• Cross-Functional Integration
  • Integrate Design/Product Quality, Supplier Quality, Manufacturing Quality, AI&T/Test Quality, receiving inspection, and production inspection activities to support program objectives.
  • Drive cross-functional problem solving and accountability across a multi-function, multi-site program.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Quality, or a related technical discipline.
• 8+ years of experience in aerospace, defense, or other complex high-reliability hardware environments with at least 3 years in a quality engineering role.
• Experience leading or integrating Quality for a complex hardware program across multiple functions and/or sites.
• Experience supporting new product introduction and transitioning hardware from development through qualification and production.
• Familiarity with AS9100 or ISO9000 Quality Management System and/or related quality systems and programs.
• Well-versed in AI tools/applications for quality and process improvement, or demonstrated ability to quickly learn and apply them.
• Working knowledge of APQP, FAI/PPAP, nonconformance/MRB, RCCA, and Quality metrics.

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience supporting high-rate or high-volume spacecraft production.
• Experience transitioning a spacecraft program from development and qualification into serial production.
• Experience with spacecraft assembly, integration, and test (AI&T).
• Experience establishing or scaling Quality infrastructure to support significant production-rate increases.
• Experience with distributed supply chains and significant procured hardware content.
• Experience with AS9145, APQP, and PPAP.
• Familiarity with AS9100 or equivalent aerospace Quality Management System.
• Experience with automated manufacturing and/or inspection environments.
• American Society of Quality, Certified Quality Engineer certification.

Benefits

• 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%.
• Education Support Program.
• Stock Options for all regular employees (working at least 20 hours/week).
• Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.
• Dependent on role type and job level, employees may be eligible for benefits and bonuses based on the company's intent to reward individual contributions and enable them to share in the company's results.