Senior Manager, Fluids Routed Systems – New Glenn

Application close date:

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

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 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 designed from the beginning to be human-capable.

In this role you will directly manage a product development team of engineers working on the design, analysis, development, and qualification of several fluid systems for the first stage reusable launch vehicle. You will lead the team’s impact on all aspects of detailed mechanical design, requirements, layouts, analysis, component selection, modeling, drafting, manufacturing, and test definition. And serve as a technical contributor responsible for reviewing the team’s work product and interface across multiple vehicle sub-systems and cross-functional teams.

We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and dedication to quality to join our team and positively impact safe human spaceflight. This is a chance to leave your fingerprints on the history of spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Provide technical and personnel leadership to the Fluid System Engineers in GS1 FWD Module Fluids/Routed Systems
• Collaborate closely with design, analysis, manufacturing, quality, and integration engineers, as well as functional management, to develop and implement hardware and requirements.
• Drive the planning and release of production/dev drawings for components, assemblies, installations, and P&ID schematics against program-level requirements.
• Implement design for manufacturability and value engineering principles to reduce cost, improve build hours, and reduce vehicle reusability turn times.
• Manage roles, responsibilities, and accountability for each direct report and across the team.
• Manage department budgets, staffing levels, and performance evaluations. 
• Support qualification activities such as test requirements, planning and execution.
• Support supplier chain sourcing activities such as supplier vetting and down selection.

Minimum Qualifications:

• B.S. degree or equivalent experience in Engineering, or related fields
• 5+ years of experience managing projects/programs including leading priorities, scope, schedule, integration, and cost.
• Solid understanding of fluid components such as valves, tubing, pressurized hardware, seals, and bearings
• 7+ years of industry experience in pressurized fluid system design, development, and operations.  
• Able to estimate, plan, schedule, and track work.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment while regularly challenging requirements that do not fit the technical performance and programmatic constraints of the system.
• Excellent verbal, written, and graphical communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience designing routed systems of metallic tubing.
• Expertise in CAD work, drawings, knowledge of ASME Y14.5 geometric dimensioning and tolerance
• Demonstrated experience developing new aerospace processes and refining existing ones.
• Demonstrated experience in a space flight vehicles.
• Experience in Finite Element Analysis (FEA) tools to analyze pressurized systems and secondary structures (ANSYS preferred)
• Hands-on experience building and testing complex mechanical assemblies.
• Solid understanding of fabrication, integration processes, and quality control techniques relevant to tubes, machined components, and welded hardware
• Experience with DFM, or other manufacturing and integrated optimization processes.

 

Compensation Range for:

WA applicants is $178,452.00-$249,832.80

Other site ranges may differ

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