Manager - Asset Development Reliability

About the role

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

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the ADR team across the Design Reliability and Asset Introduction functions, including hiring, mentoring, and developing reliability engineers at multiple levels.
• Owning reliability engineering inputs into the design of new assets, GSE, tooling, and launch infrastructure, including requirements, FMEA, criticality, maintainability, and critical spares.
• Establish and run the reliability gate for asset introduction, ensuring new assets are commissioned, validated, and transitioned into operations to a defined reliability standard.
• Partner with Design, Ground Systems Development, Maintenance, and Operations to drive reliability requirements upstream into the design phase.
• Represent ADR in reviews, escalations, and cross-organizational decisions; communicate reliability risk and recommendations to leadership.
• Ability to support off-shift or weekend work during critical builds or investigations.
• Ability to travel up to 25%.

Requirements

• B.S. degree in engineering or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years in engineering, manufacturing, test, or operations in a complex hardware environment.
• 2+ years leading engineers or technical teams.
• Demonstrated experience in reliability engineering methods such as FMEA, RCA, criticality analysis, maintainability, and reliability requirements development.
• Experience driving reliability or design inputs across organizational boundaries with internal and external stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Minimum qualifications: B.S. degree in engineering or related technical field, or equivalent experience. 5+ years in engineering, manufacturing, test, or operations in a complex hardware environment. 2+ years leading engineers or technical teams. Demonstrated experience in reliability engineering methods such as FMEA, RCA, criticality analysis, maintainability, and reliability requirements development. Experience driving reliability or design inputs across organizational boundaries with internal and external stakeholders.

Culture Statement

Don’t meet all desired requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single desired qualification. At Blue Origin, we are dedicated to building an authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every desired qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

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

Pay

Commensurate with experience.

Schedule

N/A