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 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.  

This role supports the development and operations of New Glenn, a single-configuration, heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle capable of routinely carrying people and payloads to low-Earth orbit, geostationary transfer orbit, cislunar, and beyond. Its first stage is fully reusable, and the vehicle was crafted from the beginning to be human-capable.

You will collaborate with the Senior Director of New Glenn Umbilical Team to hit cost, schedule, technical design landmarks while leading emergent risk & opportunity for New Glenn. You will ensure adherence across the various Umbilical teams to standards and best practices while working to improve the capabilities of the team through coaching and training more junior project members.

This role requires excellent organizational skills to ensure design, development, qualification, and production hardware is delivered to New Glenn. This role will require you to reach across many partner organizations as both supplier of design definition and customer of support organization to understand their outstanding needs that enable ultimate success of umbilical system. Excellent written and oral communication skills will be required to effectively connect with Blue Origin internal organizations across multiple sites as well as a diverse supply base. The ideal candidate will have the ability to quickly frame an objective problem statement and calibrate to their audience in a way that acquires help when needed and builds confidence problems are well understood and efficiently worked. The ideal candidate is hard-working when it comes to achieving success to the point it is infectious among the broader team. You will need to influence those outside of the team in order to meet ambitious goals for development, design, and industrialization of Umbilical products.

This role will present status, risks & opportunities, variances, and recovery plans to engineering and program management while quickly adapting to dynamic business rhythms. We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and dedication to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Bias for action and passion for our mission and vision are required!

Responsibilities:

• Develop plans for integration projects; lead cross-functional teams, manage and report progress
• Identify risks and develop mitigation plans
• Build metrics and data reports to provide program insights to performance
• Facilitate change boards to assess programmatic impact of change requests
• Drive process improvements to continuously improve program operation
• Coordinate with procurement, internal and external manufacturing, to ensure that hardware priorities are well understood and are actively managed to support the need dates
• Identify schedule-critical hardware, equipment, people, and facilities; resolve constraints
• Develop recovery strategies when non-conformances or other escapes are identified

Qualifications:

• B.S./B.A. degree in engineering or another technical field
• 7+ years of experience in leading design, development, integration, or testing – preferably with aerospace hardware or complex technical systems. Candidates with various levels of experience are welcome to apply
• Possess high attention to detail and strong organizational/coordination skills
• Demonstrated ability building trusting and effective working relationships that improve team performance and deliver results
• Demonstrated ability to influence others to achieve specific business objectives or goals outside of your organization
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion
• Experience across the design lifecycle of engineering products in aerospace or an adjacent field
• Experience managing projects with a track record of demonstrable success
• 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

Preferred Qualifications:

• Working knowledge of configuration management principles and practices
• Experience managing large assemblies and Bills of Material
• Experience in the development of launch vehicles
• Experience with human spaceflight or high-performance aircraft systems
• Experience leading a small technical team
• Experience with MS Project, Primavera (P6), DOORS, CREO, Windchill
• Experience leading change management activities
• Experience with data analytics
• Experience with technical risk management
• Working familiarity with Jira, Confluence, and Tableau
• Experience across multiple portions of the product life cycle
• PMI, IPMA, or equivalent certification in project management

 

Compensation Range for:

WA applicants is $143,989.50-$201,585.30

Other site ranges may differ

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed.

Inclusivity Statement

Don’t meet all desired requirements? 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 desired qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

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.

Benefits

Benefits include:  Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability, 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%, and an Education Support Program.

Paid Time Off:  Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.

Discretionary bonus: Bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results.

Eligibility for benefits varies by role type, please check with your recruiter for a comprehensive list of the benefits available for this role.

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, including the Washington Fair Chance Act, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles Fair Chance in Hiring Ordinance, and other applicable laws. For more information on “EEO Is the Law,” please see here.

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