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Blue Origin LLC Senior Composites Structures Design Engineer - New Glenn Payload Accommodations in Seattle, Washington
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. As part of a small, hardworking, passionate, diverse, and accomplished team of experts, you will own engineering support of high rate builds of New Glenn's composite payload fairing and fixed adapter including design improvements for cost, rate and quality and rapid resolution of manufacturing nonconformances. 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 include: Primary design engineering contact for manufacturing and production support issues for composite structures and related hardware currently in production at Blue Origin and suppliers. Own disposition of recurring and one-off nonconformances by working with stress, M&P, M.E., and adjacent hardware responsible engineers to approve repair/rework/UAI/scrap dispositions for discrepant hardware. Identify and implement engineering corrective actions to reduce future nonconformances. Work with production teams to identify and implement opportunities for cost and rate improvements through design updates. Design, analysis, development, and testing of primary and secondary composite structures. Create and modify 3D models, detail part drawings, assemblies, installations, and interface control documents. Work with cross-functional teams that are responsible for selecting materials, manufacturing processes, and suppliers to produce world class aerospace hardware. Participate in the development and purchase of new equipment and tooling. Coach, mentor and technically assist other engineers. Qualifications: Minimum of a B.S. degree in engineering and 10 years of experience with aircraft, spacecraft, or launch vehicle structures. 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. Experience with nonconforming hardware disposition (Liaison, MR/MRB, etc). Experience with aerospace composite structure design and manufacturing. Experience with production aircraft or launch vehicles in one or more of the following areas: Vehicle load path distribution, and first order strength assessment and sizing Composite skin-stringer or sandwich panel design Material selection, compatibility, and manufacturing techniques Strong understanding of composite and metallic design and analysis matters Strong mechanical design and integration skills using CATIA V5 and the CATIA composite software workbenches. Experienced with fabrication of composite primary structures for aerospace. Experience with Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerance analysis (ASME Y14.5). Familiarity with ASME Y14.100 and Y14.41. Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion. Desired: Experience with complex composite repair development and/or analysis. Experience supporting Aircraft on Ground (AOG) operations. Ability to apply structural mechanics principles and development designs using hand calculations