Manufacturing Engineer III – B Shift - Harness Fabrication
Blue Origin · Space Coast, FL
- Level
- Senior
- Team
- Manufacturing
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 9+ years
- Certification
- Black Belt preferred
- Industry
- Aerospace & defense
- Posted
- Yesterday
The role in 30 seconds
A senior manufacturing role at Blue Origin (aerospace & defense) in Space Coast, FL. As part of a rapidly evolving team, you’ll be responsible for working closely with engineering design and company leadership to support all manufacturing efforts and equipment related to building avionics hardware and harnesses.
- They ask for
- 9+ years · degree required · Black Belt preferred
- Tools it names
- Lean, Six Sigma, Black Belt, GD&T, AS9100, Tooling
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From the plant jobs report · week of October 26, 2026
Manufacturing Engineer roles in Florida: typical posted base $78k–$126k.
Median of the low and high ends of 7 live postings that list pay, out of 68 manufacturing engineer openings in Florida, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 67 other live manufacturing postings in Florida.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- More than usual (9+ vs 5+)
Typical $78k–$126k, from 7 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Lean 56%
- Root cause 50%
- ✓ Tooling 47%
- ✓ New product launch 46%
- Machining 41%
- Welding 41%
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Stands out: this posting asks for Black Belt, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
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This plant: Blue Origin in Space Coast
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Full description from Blue OriginAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
requirements
are met.
- ✓Develops tooling
requirements
and initiates tooling orders based on manufacturing and engineering requirements.
- ✓Leads tooling dispositions.
- ✓Leads the Investigation of and resolves manufacturing-related issues of a broad scope.
- ✓Participates in producibility assessments for part or product designs.
- ✓Provides input to design, manufacturing processes, and manufacturing technologies to meet costs and schedules at the cell level
- ✓Develops work statements and sequencing of events to support delivery commitments for major hardware.
- ✓Reviews, maintains and monitoring of internal documents and schedules
- ✓Take ownership over configuration management of flight inventory. Provides shipside support.
- ✓Functions as an individual contributor SME or as part of a cross functional team. Helps train junior teammates.
Qualifications
- ✓B.S. degree or higher in Aerospace with Electrical or Digital electronics communications concentration, Electrical Engineering or relevant field
- ✓7 - 9 years Prior experience in design and manufacturing environments specific to production of complex systems in areas of aircraft, spacecraft, launch vehicle structures, automotive manufacturing or similar with Communications hardware development and fabrication fundamentals and hands-on knowledge and skills.
- ✓Proven experience and successful team track record working in a matrix organization.
- ✓Strong understanding of engineering fundamentals for Avionics Electro-mechanical design and manufacturing, including knowledge of GD&T, Electrical Theory Fundamentals, and NEC with IEC/IPC/WHMA-A-610, 620 and J-STD-001 Electronic Acceptability Industry Standards.
- ✓Lean Manufacturing and/or Six Sigma processes and implementation at least at Green or Yellow Belt Level.
- ✓Strong written, personal, technical, and software skills (MATLAB/SIMULINK/ANSYS, CAD, Jules, CMES, Velocity, Enovia, Delmia, CATIA, CREO, Issue Tracking, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc).
- ✓Ability to develop processes compliant to industry quality systems such as AS9100 and IEC/IPC/WHMA-A-610, 620 and J-STD-001 Electronic Acceptability Industry Standards.
- ✓Extremely customer focused with strong verbal and written communication skills.
- ✓A demonstrated ability to work cooperatively with teams of diverse skills across large geographic distances.
- ✓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.
Preferred Qualifications
- ✓SME level Hands on experience with building flight electronic hardware
- ✓Experience 10+ years in an engineering capacity managing large scope and data sets
- ✓Significant Experience with design, development or production of Aerospace/Launch vehicle spacecraft, or satellites.
- ✓Lean Manufacturing and/or Six Sigma processes and implementation at Black Belt Level or Master BB.
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Application close date
Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed.
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.
As part of a rapidly evolving team, you’ll be responsible for working closely with engineering design and company leadership to support all manufacturing efforts and equipment related to building avionics hardware and harnesses. 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!
Role supports the development and operations of New Glenn, a single-configuration, heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle capable of routinely carrying people and payloads to low-Earth orbit, geostationary transfer orbit, cislunar, and beyond. Its first stage is fully reusable, and the vehicle was designed from the beginning to be human-capable.
Shift: B shift M-Fri 3am-12am intermittent weekend shift coverage required
include but are not limited to
- •Coordinate the manufacturing of complex avionics devices and harnesses.
- •Interpret and translating engineering documents intent and schematics or drawings into fully functional hardware ready for test, qualification, and flight by crafting avionics manufacturing bill of materials and work instructions.
- •Maintain cognizance of ~4000 distinct parts throughout various stages of manufacturing.
- •Maintain documentation pedigree to support human rated flight avionics.
- •Develop internal specifications required to support the manufacture of device and harness assemblies.
- •Take ownership of a complex production schedule that will support multiple programs needs simultaneously. Supporting introduction of new products by crafting manufacturing plan artifacts including build plans, duration estimates, index plans, and tool lists
- •Leads at the cell level the development, implementation, and maintenance of various manufacturing plans, Bill of Materials, work instructions, and illustrations to define and document as-built configuration of major production hardware
- •Leads at the cell level the development and integration of suppliers, processes, materials, data, and technology to meet manufacturing flight avionics and harness equipment and hardware to meet delivery requirements.
- •Leads the reviewing of supplier data to ensure manufacturing-related