Job description
Job Description
We are a diverse team of collaborators, doers, and problem-solvers who are relentlessly committed to a culture of safety. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable space flight. Join us in lowering the cost of access to space and enabling Blue Origin’s vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit Earth.
As part of a passionate and accomplished team of experts, you will manage, maintain and setup cutting tools and fixtures for machining of precision aerospace tooling. You will share in the team’s impact on all aspects of setting up cutting tools per specified configurations, ordering cutting tools and kitting/staging all needed raw material, cutting tools, COTS items, and anything else that is required for the job. The Tooling Coordinator will act as the organizing force that will align the machinists, programmers, operators, and planner by coordinating and staging jobs at the right just the right work center at just the right time such that machinists and programmers can continue value add work without stoppage. The permanent location of this position is Huntsville, Alabama. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your dedicated commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable spaceflight!
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:
- Kit all jobs with raw material, cutting tools, COTS, and any other necessary items per a released work order
- Move and handle organized kits, material, and subassemblies to correct locations at just the right time to prevent work stoppages
- Order tools as required or needed for the machine shop
- Maintain cutting tool and fixture inventory
- Grind cutting tools as needed
- Work to and improve setup documentation
- Communicate with machinists, programmers, scheduler and designers
- Support and/or perform process improvement projects
- Maintain configuration control on files and job records
- Safely work within an industrial environment
Qualifications:
- A minimum of 8 years of experience in a machine shop environment for level III
- A minimum of 3 years of experience in a machine shop environment for level II
- Knowledge of cutting tools and machine shop tooling applications
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to use micrometers, calipers, height gages and dial indicators
- Go-getter attitude with that is both organized and quick to action
- General inventory knowledge
- Familiar with use of personal computers
- Problem solving and attention to detail
- Self-motivation and ability to prioritize projects to meet completion dates
- 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:
- Knowledge of common aerospace cutting tool coatings
- Experience operating basic hand tools and grinders
- Experience operating mills and lathes
- Excellent blueprint reading skills including GD&T per ASME Y14.5M-1994 standard
- Fluent in use of precision hand tools
- Cutting tool length pre-setter experience
- Experience operating heavy lifting equipment such as cranes and forklifts around flight critical hardware
- Outside processing knowledge (heat treat, plating, coating, EDM, grinding, etc.)
Don’t meet every single requirement? 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 qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
Compensation range for on site CO applicants:
Associate - Production II is $26.57 - $38.97
Associate - Production III is $31.30 - $45.90
Compensation range for on site WA applicants:
Associate - Production II is $28.99 - $42.52
Associate - Production III is $34.14 - $50.07
Compensation range for on site CA applicants:
Associate - Production II is $28.99 - $42.52
Associate - Production III is $34.14 - $50.07
Other site ranges may differ
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.
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.
Blue Origin will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the Washington Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles Fair Chance in Hiring Ordinance, and other applicable laws.
Affirmative Action and Disability Accommodation
Applicants wishing to receive information on Blue Origin’s Affirmative Action Plans, or applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in the application and/or interview process, please contact us at
EEOCompliance@blueorigin.com
.
Benefits
Employee Benefits include: Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, short and long-term disability and 401(k) with up to 5% company match.
Paid Time Off: Provides up to 4 weeks per year, in addition to 14 holidays
Discretionary bonus programs
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