Technical Project Manager II

Technical Project Manager II

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 team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight!

This role is part of Blue Origin Operations, which is comprised of Integrated Supply Chain, Test Operations, Safety, Quality, and Mission Assurance. This includes Manufacturing and Supply Chain support across all Blue Origin facilities.

We are seeking a highly skilled project manager to join our Operations team. The selected candidate will have the broad responsibility for directing rocket vehicle integration activities, ensuring seamless coordination across engineering, test, and operation functions to drive an optimized manufacturing flow from start to finish. While this role is an individual contributor position, the influence of the role is significant requiring both technical and personnel leadership to provide the high-level direction to the team to deliver the integrated vehicle.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop tools to help production teams coordinate day-to-day activities
• Liaise and facilitate the efforts of a broad multi-functional group including design, manufacturing, and test engineering as well as supply chain and other operations teams to enable the successful integration of the rocket.
• Broad accountability to make informed decisions regarding build sequence and schedule to optimize efficiency and meet project timelines.
• Triage and provide engineering direction on off nominal and discrepant situations to enable production to move forward.
• Take ownership of the entire build flow, including reporting progress and challenges to leadership, recovery planning and continuous improvement of execution.
• Manage optimization activities to decrease unit lead time and cost to radically reduce the cost of access to space.
• Mitigate risks and manage impacts to ensure project objectives are achieved.
• Collaborate with multiple stakeholders to deliver the required verification artifacts at completion of build to successfully transfer the rocket into operational service.

Minimum Qualifications:

• B.S. degree in aerospace, mechanical, industrial, or manufacturing engineering; physics; or other major requiring engineering or manufacturing core courses
• 2-4 years of experience in designing/developing/supporting complex engineered products.
• 1+ years of project management or system integration experience.
• Enjoy leading and participating in highly collaborative efforts and a desire to lead and manage small teams on a fast-paced hardware and flight projects
• Demonstrated ability building trusting and effective working relationships that improve team performance and deliver results
• Demonstrated experience with core project management status skills including with logic-linked scheduling, budget and schedule variance tracking and reporting project to leadership
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with experience with communicating with teams of varying sizes
• Ability to earn trust and build positive, professional, and inclusive relationships

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with budget and Cost Account Management such as EVM
• Experience with risk management, configuration management, requirements management
• Experience in Manufacturing Engineering, Production Engineering or similar experience working in vehicle integration and test
• Experience across multiple portions of the product life cycle
• Experience with human spaceflight or high-performance systems

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

Culture Statement

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