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Blue Origin LLC Quality Specialist in Seattle, Washington
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 develop and execute commercial quality processes for the design, test and manufacture of launch vehicles, spacecraft, and related technologies. You will be responsible to drive quality products throughout the organization by maintaining a corporate 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 educate and communicate AS9100 QMS requirements across design, manufacturing, and launch processes in support of sub-orbital and orbital launch operations as well as perform activities as lead auditor. 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! Responsibilities: Help develop, coordinate, and implement metrics associated to Production Quality Assist in managing the plan development, schedule, and execution of the process health assessments and internal audits for compliance with industry standards and provide ongoing objective evaluations of processes and documentation Recommends and coordinates appropriate corrective action to quality deficiencies within Blue Origin or externally Develop a teaching environment and culture around the Quality Management System including awareness, continuous improvement, and procedure compliance Communicate confidently and effectively with all levels of management, peers and key stakeholders, including timely escalation of quality issues. Provide guidance to Blue Origin employees on the QMS Assist in Identifying and implementing QMS process and system improvements Qualifications: Minimum of a Bachelor's degree or 6+ years industry experience in QMS / Internal Auditing 6+ years of AS9100 or ISO9001 auditing experience within a manufacturing environment Able to identify problems, perform root cause analysis and implement corrective actions Exceptional listening, communication, and presentation skills 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: Certified as AS9100D / ISO9001 / APQP Lead Auditor Experience with external audit, supporting USG Compliance Aerospace, space launch, or military or commercial aviation preferred American Society of Quality, Certified Quality Engineer certification Quality experience in either development or production environment Six Sigma Green, Black Belt, or comparable certification Compensation range for on site WA applicants is $115,050-$168,740 Compensation range for on site CA applicants is $115,050-$168,740 Other site ranges may differ Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed. Inclusivity Sta