BLUE ORIGIN

Supplier Quality Engineer III

BLUE ORIGIN
Posted 10/19/2026full-timeUnited StatesSeniorLead💰 $112,059 - $156,883 per yearWebsite
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Demonstrates expertise in supplier quality processes, including evaluation, monitoring, and improvement of supplier performance in aerospace manufacturing. Proficient in leading corrective actions, root-cause analysis, and ensuring compliance with quality standards and specifications.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Supplier Quality EngineeringAerospace Manufacturing ProcessesRoot-Cause AnalysisQuality AssuranceAS9100 Quality-System Audits

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
Assembly

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Develop and execute supplier quality processes for the design, test, and manufacture of launch vehicles, spacecraft, and related spaceflight technologies
  • Evaluate current and prospective suppliers for technical capability, quality-system maturity, capacity, and operational stability
  • Monitor supplier quality performance and identify trends, risks, and improvement opportunities
  • Lead supplier containment, root-cause analysis, corrective and preventive actions, and recovery planning
  • Drive reductions in supplier nonconformances, defects, escapes, and repeat discrepancies
  • Conduct or participate in supplier assessments, quality-system and process audits, pre-shipment reviews, source inspections, hardware acceptance activities, and corrective-action verification
  • Evaluate supplier manufacturing, assembly, inspection, and test processes for compliance with drawings, specifications, contracts, and quality standards
  • Support supplier and program reviews
  • Partner with engineering, manufacturing, procurement, program quality, and suppliers to resolve technical and quality issues
  • Communicate supplier performance, risks, corrective-action status, and recovery plans to stakeholders and senior management
  • Support transition of hardware from development and qualification into stable, repeatable production
  • Promote safety, quality, accountability, continuous improvement, and inclusion

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, manufacturing, or a related technical discipline
  • 7 or more years of experience in a manufacturing environment, including at least 4 years in a Supplier Quality Engineering role
  • Quality assurance or quality engineering experience in an aerospace production environment
  • Technical knowledge of aerospace manufacturing, assembly, inspection, and test processes
  • Experience reviewing engineering drawings, specifications, manufacturing plans, inspection plans, and supplier quality records
  • Experience leading supplier corrective actions, root-cause investigations, containment activities, and nonconformance-reduction initiatives
  • Ability to evaluate technical and quality risks and communicate findings clearly
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities
  • Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and strengthen a culture of inclusion
  • Must be able to travel up to 50% of the time
  • Must have a valid driver’s license
  • Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted refugee or asylee
  • Preferred: technical or supplier quality experience with aerospace commodities, systems, or manufacturing processes including avionics, electronics, machined parts, fabricated parts and structures, composites, valves, mechanical assemblies, electromechanical assemblies, machining, and fabrication
  • Preferred: experience with satellite or spacecraft hardware and communication components
  • Preferred: experience working with Government Customers
  • Preferred: knowledge of satellite and communication hardware requirements
  • Preferred: experience managing supplier quality for high-reliability electronic or communication devices
  • Preferred: experience transitioning products from development and qualification through production and operations
  • Preferred: experience performing AS9100 quality-system audits
  • Preferred: familiarity with AS9102, advanced product quality planning, process capability, and statistical process control

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Relocation assistance
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Basic and supplemental life insurance
  • Paid parental leave
  • Short- and long-term disability
  • 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%
  • Education Support Program
  • Stock options for all regular employees working at least 20 hours/week
  • Up to four weeks of paid time off per year based on weekly scheduled hours
  • Up to 14 company-paid holidays
  • Potential benefits and bonuses based on role type, job level, individual contributions, and company results

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Hard Skills
Supplier Quality ProcessesQuality-System AuditsRoot-Cause InvestigationsEngineering Drawings ReviewNonconformance ReductionTechnical Risk EvaluationManufacturing ComplianceInspection PlansCorrective ActionsContinuous Improvement
Soft Skills
CommunicationRelationship ManagementTrust BuildingPrioritizationInclusion
Industry Keywords
Aerospace ProductionSupplier AssessmentsQuality StandardsHigh-Reliability ElectronicsSatellite HardwareCommunication ComponentsGovernment CustomersManufacturing EnvironmentTechnical CapabilityOperational Stability