Manufacturing Operations Platform Engineer II
Blue Origin4 days ago
Huntsville, AL, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Responsibilities
- Embed with warehouse, assembly, and maintenance teams to understand workflows, friction, and platform needs.
- Own platform features end-to-end, including user discovery, design, implementation, testing, peer review, release, and iteration.
- Integrate machines, PLCs, HMIs, and process data into the Manufacturing Operations Platform alongside the automation team.
- Build integrations between internal manufacturing systems and adjacent ERP, MRP, PLM, Workday, and machine-level systems.
- Contribute to the real-time factory model, digital twin, and analytics layer.
- Coordinate with operators, engineers, and program leadership to deliver manufacturing outcomes.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, manufacturing, industrial technology, or a related field, or equivalent hands-on production manufacturing experience.
- At least 3 years of manufacturing operations experience spanning design release, work orders, shop-floor execution, receiving, inventory, and finished products.
- Hands-on exposure to manufacturing software systems such as MES, WMS, ERP, MRP, PLM, quality-management, or maintenance-management systems.
- Direct experience with first-article inspection, in-process inspection, non-conformances, corrective action, and calibration.
- Experience integrating software systems in a manufacturing context, including APIs, data contracts, machine data, or system-to-system connectors.
- Experience leading, coordinating, or supervising teams executing production work.
- Comfort using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or similar tools.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Preferred experience in industrial equipment, capital equipment, sheet metal, welding, fabrication, or machining.
- Preferred deep implementation, integration, or configuration experience with manufacturing execution, warehouse, enterprise resource planning, maintenance, or quality systems.
- Preferred exposure to PLCs, HMIs, OPC-UA, MQTT, MTConnect, machine data acquisition, or SCADA.
- Preferred experience shipping software integrations end-to-end and using Git, code review, and merge requests.
- Preferred experience with continuous improvement, lean manufacturing, or Industry 4.0 initiatives.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short- and long-term disability, 401(k) matching up to 5%, and an Education Support Program.
- Stock options for regular employees working at least 20 hours per week.
- Up to four weeks of paid time off per year based on scheduled hours and up to 14 company-paid holidays.
- Potential role- and level-dependent bonuses and other benefits, subject to company discretion and change.
- Applicants must be U.S. citizens or nationals, U.S. permanent residents, or lawfully admitted refugees or asylees because of export control regulations.
About Blue Origin
Blue Origin designs and manufactures rocket engines, reusable launch vehicles, and lunar transport systems for commercial and government customers. Its products include the suborbital New Shepard, the in-development New Glenn orbital rocket, BE-4 engines (used on ULA’s Vulcan), and the Blue Moon lander; revenue comes from launch services, engine supply, and space systems contracts, including a NASA Human Landing System award. Founded in 2000 by Jeff Bezos, the company is headquartered in Kent, Washington.