GSE & Tooling Engineer III
Blue Origin · Los Angeles, CA
- Level
- Senior
- Team
- Manufacturing
- Base pay
- $121k–$169k
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 8+ years
- Industry
- Aerospace & defense
- Posted
- 11 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A senior manufacturing role at Blue Origin (aerospace & defense) in Los Angeles, CA. Provide hands-on feedback to engineers on design for manufacturability, integration, and test.
- They ask for
- 8+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- GD&T, Welding, Tooling
- Base pay
- $121k–$169k
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
How this role compares
Against 277 other live manufacturing postings in California.
- Base pay
- About 11% above similar roles
- Experience asked
- More than usual (8+ vs 5+)
Typical $109k–$153k, from 100 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Tooling 59%
- ✓ New product launch 54%
- Root cause 45%
- Automation 35%
- CATIA / NX 34%
- Machining 33%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
At a glance
Pulled from the posting text. If it's not listed here, the posting didn't say.
How to get in at this plant
Five moves over a week or two. The first one takes ten minutes.
- 1
Pick 2–3 people on the Manufacturing team at Blue Origin
We found 2 people at this company and state: 2 on the team. Engineers who joined in the last year or two reply the most. See them ↓
- 2
Send a short, curious note
One real question about their work. No favors yet. Each person gets a different note, written for this role.
Write to Chris → (free) - 3
Turn a reply into a short call
Questions worth asking about this team:
- What does a normal week look like on your team?
- Is the work mostly new product launches or sustaining existing lines?
- How much time do you spend on the floor versus at a desk?
- How did you land the job? What stood out in your interviews?
- 4
Apply with someone vouching for you
If the call went well, ask whether they’d pass your résumé to the hiring manager. Send your résumé link, apply that day, and let them know.
- 5
Bring proof to the interview
One page of before-and-after numbers from projects you led: scrap, OEE, cycle time, cost. Plant managers hire on results.
This plant: Blue Origin in Los Angeles
2 other open roles at this site · 2 people we found on the manufacturing team.
- EE Manufacturing Technician III · Manufacturing · Technician
- Senior Quality Manager · Quality · Manager
Full description from Blue OriginAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
Key Responsibilities
- ◆Perform mechanical and electrical integration of components, subsystems, and test articles, including:
- ◆Structural assemblies, mechanisms, and fluid systems
- ◆Harnesses, sensors, and instrumentation
- ◆Power distribution and control hardware
- ◆Set up, operate, and maintain vacuum systems and related hardware, including:
- ◆Chamber assembly, pump-down, and venting operations
- ◆Leak checks, RGA use (where applicable), and basic troubleshooting of vacuum performance
- ◆Work with high-voltage and high-amperage systems, including:
- ◆Power supplies, power distribution units, interlocks, and safety systems
- ◆High-current bus bars, contactors, and protective devices
- ◆Strict adherence to lockout/tagout and electrical safety procedures
- ◆Set up and operate furnaces and thermal processing equipment:
- ◆Thermal cycling and bake-out operations for components and assemblies
- ◆Monitoring temperature profiles, documenting run parameters, and maintaining equipment
- ◆Support early development and prototype hardware:
- ◆Build, modify, and rework experimental assemblies based on evolving designs
- ◆Provide hands-on feedback to engineers on design for manufacturability, integration, and test
- ◆Execute test setups and operations:
- ◆Install instrumentation (pressure, temperature, strain, flow, etc.)
- ◆Route and secure cabling and plumbing to meet functional and cleanliness
requirements
- ✓Support test execution, monitoring, and post-test tear-down
- ✓Interpret engineering documentation:
- ✓Work from drawings, schematics, wiring diagrams, P&IDs, work instructions, and test procedures
- ✓Identify and help resolve documentation discrepancies with engineering
- ✓Maintain high standards of safety, quality, and housekeeping:
- ✓Follow all safety and contamination control
requirements
(FOD, ESD, cleanliness, PPE)
- ✓Support continuous improvement of build and test processes
- ✓Accurately complete build records, nonconformance reports, and test logs
- ✓Mentor junior technicians and contribute to a strong, collaborative team culture.
Qualifications
- ✓Bachelor’s degree in engineering.
- ✓5-8 years of experience developing models/assemblies and creating drawings.
- ✓Experience designing vibration fixtures and performing modal analysis.
- ✓Experience designing fixture with high pressures, and wide temperature ranges.
- ✓Experience with automotive, aircraft, spacecraft, or launch vehicle GSE, fixtures, tooling and/or structures.
- ✓Strong mechanical design and integration skills using Creo Parametric / ProE software and Windchill or equivalent.
- ✓Experience creating assembly and installation models and drawings.
- ✓Familiarity with mechanical joint and weldment design and component integration.
- ✓Proficient in standard fits, tolerance stacks, and GD&T analysis (ASME Y14.5).
- ✓Experience in drawing generation, checking, and life cycle/release processes.
- ✓Experience managing large CAD assemblies and associated drawings.
- ✓Demonstrated ability to lead and manage complicated assemblies as well as coordinate design and assembly details across multiple stakeholders.
- ✓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
- ✓Experience with test and/or test fixtures/tooling assemblies.
- ✓Experience supporting large scale GSE assembly/integration.
- ✓Experience supporting fabrication instruction of GSE.
- ✓Experience with fluids or cryogenic tooling design
Additional
Requirements
- ✓Willingness to strictly follow all safety procedures, particularly regarding vacuum, high voltage, high current, and thermal systems.
- ✓Ability to use appropriate PPE and follow lockout/tagout procedures without exception.
- ✓Willingness to support off-hour test operations and critical integration milestones as required.
Show full description ↓Show less ↑
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 Advanced Concepts and Enterprise Engineering (ACE), supporting Blue Origin’s mission of millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. The team fosters innovation and drives engineering workflows of the future, shared solutions and standards, simplicity and lower costs, and manufacturable design.
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.
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!