Continuous Improvement Engineer III

2 weeks ago


Van Horn, United States Blue Origin Full time

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

This role is part of the Safety, Quality, and Mission Assurance team. This team is focused on monitoring and assessing processes that guide Blue Origin's design, manufacturing, and operations, ensuring system safety engineering, environmental health, and safety, product integrity, and continuous improvement processes.

As part of a small, passionate, and accomplished team of experts, you will be responsible for continuous improvement of business and operational processes for various spaceflight tools, processes, and systems. You will share in the team's impact on all aspects of Continuous Improvement. As a team, we will help build a Lean culture, improving processes and process development within a workplace culture that emphasizes accountability, discipline, and attention to detail at all levels. You must have a passion for solving complex problems and providing operable solutions; act with minimal direction and on your own initiative; and be adaptable as you will work on a variety of applications and systems. We are looking for an individual that can help teams resolve and implement innovative process improvement initiatives that will support rocket production and development. You will report to the Blue Origin Director of Continuous Improvement. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your dedicated commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable spaceflight

We are a team of collaborators, doers, and problem-solvers relentlessly committed to building a culture of improvement. We are passionate about Continuous Improvement, guiding and coaching others. We continuously seek out opportunities to learn and improve. You must have a passion for building a continuous improvement culture and solving sophisticated problems and providing operable solutions and be capable of acting with minimal direction on your initiative. We are looking for a hands-on, highly collaborative, and energetic individual that always welcomes a challenge. Are you are motivated to get the job done while maintaining the high standards required for safe human spaceflight? Do you have appreciation for collaborators, users, and process owners? Do you show grit in the face of large challenges, and can you prioritize work to also get the little stuff done? If this sounds like you, we look forward to hearing from you...

Van Horn Specific information:

Being at the heart of Blue Origin operations, the West Texas Site in Van Horn, TX offers eligible employee's additional attractive financial incentives to supplement their competitive base earnings, including a living allowance and relocation assistance. Eligibility for these additional benefits is based on the employee's ability to permanently relocate to Van Horn, TX, or travel to Van Horn from another Blue location a minimum of 50% of the time.

Responsibilities:
  • Act as a leader to facilitate positive change in a problem solving and Continuous Improvement culture on site and in related areas of the company
  • Proactively initiate and Lead teams through the identification of improvement opportunities and coordinate/lead improvement teams with a core focus on elimination of non-value added activities to help develop the lean culture.
  • Apply lean tools to implement the continuous improvement vision across the organization with a focus on reduction of waste, elimination of hand offs and reduction in process cycle time resulting in multi-functional transformation which delivers consistent, year-over-year results
  • Support multi-functional teams in building problem solving capabilities and leading kaizen events to ensure all operations perform in a consistent and best-in-class manner
  • Facilitate and lead activities such as Value Stream Mapping (VSM), Problem Solving, 5S, Kaizen and SMED events to support production, quality, and product development initiatives.
Qualifications:
  • Minimum of a B.S. in Engineering or Science
  • 7 years of industry experience in an engineering or production field with at least 5 years process improvement experience in a manufacturing environment
  • Experience developing training, and teaching Continuous Improvement tools and methodologies
  • Previously held full-time Continuous Improvement or Industrial Engineering role
  • Experience leading Continuous Improvement projects and kaizens
  • Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, or comparable certification

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