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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. 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! 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 a high level of ownership for all Safety, Quality and Mission assurance functions (SQMA), activities and deliverables, focusing on test and ground operations in close collaboration with our program-focused Mission Assurance (MA) Directors, Programs, and Functional Groups. The role will also include other aspects of the MA Director role, including design and certification, human-rating, operations, recovery, refurbishment, and re-flight. You will work and collaborate with senior managers in Test and Flight Operations, Programs, and across the company functional to ensure safe and successful test and operations. Responsibilities: Coordinate SQMA efforts with a matrixed team of system safety, reliability, product integrity, and mission assurance engineers to ensure safe and successful tests and missions. Define and monitor mission assurance program specifications and processes to assure mission and test success. Support the development, implementation and maintenance of quality policy and procedures, and safety policy and procedures including performing internal audits to assess. Provide inputs to test and mission 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. Represent Mission Assurance at program, test, and material review boards. Provide disposition of risks relevant 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 for test stand and launch pad activation. 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 Program goals. Travel approximately 25% of the time to test and launch sites. Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in a technical field. 12+ years of experience in launch vehicle, test, operations, space vehicle maintenance, or industry relevant mission assurance analysis. Demonstrated success providing technical expertise to improve operational safety and reliability, and establishing risk thresholds that drive mission success. Strong proficiency with safety and mission assurance processes, analysis, and tools. Familiarity with system safety engineering, risk management, hazard analysis methods, and root cause analysis. Technical leadership experience with growing o