Director Production Control

About the Role

At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. This role is part of Blue Origin Operations, which includes Integrated Supply Chain, Test Operations, Safety, Quality, and Mission Assurance, and supports manufacturing and supply chain across all Blue Origin facilities.

The position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require commitment and detailed attention toward safe and repeatable space flight.

As part of a hardworking team of experts, you will lead Blue Origin’s overall strategy, governance, and innovation for the Production Control discipline across all manufacturing sites. This team is responsible for setting policies, procedures, and processes for the short‑range scheduling, release, and management of manufacturing work order activities for various spaceflight systems. This individual will directly manage multiple PC teams and, through active engagement and influence, indirectly manage multiple PC specialists reporting to other departments.

• Improve and deploy Production Control policies, procedures, processes, and tools with a singular focus on improving short‑range scheduling, release, and management of manufacturing work order activities for all Blue Origin product lines.
• Drive disciplined adherence to work order release and management processes.
• Continuously improve performance measures (KPIs) of the health of the tactical schedules and open work orders, as well as of the performance of the PC team.
• Actively resolve tactical issues involving demand, capacity constraints, and material availability.
• Identify and implement standard controls focusing primarily on cycle time reduction with a special focus on shared services or common capabilities.
• Represent Production Control in development of system tools.
• Organization budget management, forecasting, and reconciling actuals.
• Effectively collaborate with Production and Program organizations to maintain alignment on production priorities and capacity/capability changes.
• Anticipate potential schedule and personnel risks, generate ideas, insight, and solutions to resolve or mitigate potential issues, followed by decisive action to implement solutions.
• Coach, mentor, and develop your team for future progression within Blue Origin.

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in an engineering discipline, operations management, supply chain management or other relevant field.
• 10+ years of experience in operations/production/supply planning, scheduling, materials management or other Sales Inventory & Operations Planning related functional area.
• Extensive experience in and understanding of complex manufacturing and production systems (aerospace, medical or military environments).
• Build and lead a high‑performing team that is tightly coordinated to key partners, including all teams supporting the manufacturing and supply chain of complex builds.
• Experience with ERP, MRP, and MES systems in a manufacturing environment.
• Highly effective and professional verbal and written communication skills with internal customers and suppliers, with a strong focus on teamwork and customer satisfaction.
• A demonstrated ability to work cooperatively with teams across large geographic distances.
• A continuous improvement mindset; we are always optimizing.
• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to the team.
• 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.

• Experience in space systems and/or space launch.
• APICS, CPIM, CPSM, or CPF certification preferred.

WA applicants – $ – $. Other site ranges may differ.

Applicants for employment at Blue Origin 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.

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