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. We are a mission-driven team of diverse collaborators, doers, and problem-solvers relentlessly committed to a culture of safety. As part of a hardworking and accomplished team you will lead, coordinate, and take responsibility for all Safety, Quality, and Mission Assurance (SQMA) functions, activities, and deliverables for the New Glenn launch vehicle program including design and certification, human-rating, operations, recovery, refurbishment, and re-flight. You will work and collaborate with senior managers in New Glenn and across the company functional areas including engines to ensure safe and successful development, test, and operations of the New Glenn program. You will directly impact the future of space flight and help us make progress towards our mission of building the road to space through reusable rockets. Join us in advancing our vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit Earth! Responsibilities: Lead a matrixed team of system safety, reliability, product integrity, and mission assurance engineers to ensure safe and successful missions. Provide inputs to program planning to ensure safety and mission assurance objectives are adequately addressed. Coordinate with program to establish and refine risk thresholds and goals for safety and mission success. Provide SQMA disposition of risks to safety and mission success. Ensure safety and reliability analyses are thorough, correct, and any derived requirements/mitigations are verified. Participate as a non-advocate in gating engineering, production, test, and mission operations reviews at all technical levels. Provide technical expertise to manufacturing and test activities to improve product safety, reliability, and quality. Provide non-advocate support to corrective and preventive action processes. Provide independent review of failure and defect root cause analyses, and mishap investigations. Establish, track, and report key performance metrics to SQMA to support New Glenn goals. Review and provide SQMA disposition of significant changes to, or shortfalls against, the human flight certification baseline. Qualifications: Passion for our mission: Millions of people living and working in space! B.S. degree in aerospace, mechanical, electrical, or equivalent engineering experience. Proven experience in one or more of the following: Experience with launch vehicle and/or spacecraft development and operations. Experience in mission assurance analysis, products, and roles and responsibilities. Technical leadership experience with growing organizations, driving workforce culture and process change, and leading through influence. Familiarity with system safety engineering, risk management, hazard analysis methods, and root cause analysis. 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 15+ years of total work experience Launch vehicle and associated ground systems development experience. Continuous Improvement, Lean, Six Sigma knowledge and experience.