Production Control Specialist

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 Blue Origin Operations, which is comprised of Integrated Supply Chain, Facilities, and Security. This includes Manufacturing and Supply Chain support across all Blue Origin facilities.

As part of a diverse and hardworking team of specialists, you will coordinate and complete activities supporting Maintenance, Test, and Launch Operations against a schedule for various spaceflight systems. You will share in the team’s impact on all aspects of maintenance and testing deliverables. In this role, you will apply advanced planning and scheduling platforms to understand Blue Origin’s scheduling needs and coordinate maintenance activities with the operations team to support those needs. In order to be successful in this role, you will need to have great attention to detail to improve and maintain data integrity within our systems, which will then enable efficient scheduling practices to support on time delivery. You will also need to collaborate with cross-functional teams in order to problem solve and recover schedule when met with constraints. Specialists in this role are expected to regularly provide status to program teams, elevate schedule risks immediately for timely resolution, create action plans to push critical path hardware forward, and hold teams accountable to those plans.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate execution against schedule for all necessary areas of manufacturing, maintenance, and test
• Handle work orders released to the site per MRP action messages and program schedule needs
• Ensure timely staging of raw materials and kits to appropriate areas to support on time starts
• Support work orders from creation to completion, ensuring work orders stay active and blocks or holds get addressed in a timely manner
• Coordinate with area leads, technicians, quality, Product Based Production Control, and maintenance engineers on a regular basis to work through nonconforming products, engineering changes, and other unplanned events
• Provide WIP status as needed
• Request and coordinate overtime or outsourcing needs with area leads as need to ensure on time delivery of hardware
• Track and drive shortages by coordinating with all supporting areas, such as procurement, receiving inspection, and other work centers/material planners
• Communicate potential schedule risks and advance to appropriate parties as needed
• Provide transactional support in the accounting and manufacturing execution systems to collect as-built reconciliation, project transfers, inventory adjustments, and scrap transactions
• Coordinate with Inventory Team to ensure steady, timely movement of critical hardware
• Refine Item Master planning parameter values to ensure efficiencies throughout the manufacturing process and product lifecycles
• Collaborate across work centers and Production Control team as needed to resolve capacity constraints

Qualifications:

• Experience in a manufacturing or scheduling environment
• 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:

• Experienced with using inventory and/or ERP/MRP systems
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, or related field
• Experience in both development and production environments

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed.

Inclusivity 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 a diverse, inclusive, and 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.

Export Control Regulations

Applicants for employment at Blue Origin must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e. current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Benefits

Benefits include:  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%, and an Education Support Program.

Paid Time Off:  Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.

Discretionary bonus: Bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results.

Eligibility for benefits varies by role type, please check with your recruiter for a comprehensive list of the benefits available for this role.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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, including the Washington Fair Chance Act, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles Fair Chance in Hiring Ordinance, and other applicable laws. For more information on “EEO Is the Law,” please see here.

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