Senior Technical Project Manager – New Glenn

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