Senior Director, Tanks and Structures - New Glenn

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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 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 designed from the beginning to be human-capable.

As part of a small, passionate, and accomplished team of experts, you will direct and lead the tanks and structural engineering team in support of New Glenn Stage 2 and Payload Accommodations (“GS2PA”) program. GS2PA must support affordable, reusable, low-cost access to space, and a rapid stage production capability is necessary to maintain the flight manifest.
 

As Senior Director, you will report to the GS2PA Vice President. You will be held accountable for on-time delivery of the tank design, development, testing, and production. The candidate must have experience in the design, manufacturing, and production of aerospace structures. The candidate will be familiar with metallic structures, friction stir welding, dome forming, barrel bump forming, as well as a working knowledge of design in cryogenic or pressurized environments.
 

The Senior Director will fully encompass every facet of program management, including cost, schedule, technical design, risk management, and working with Blue Origin internal organizations and external suppliers to deliver verified structures. You will set the team's technical direction, requiring a broad application of advanced engineering principles, theories, and concepts and knowledge of other related disciplines. You will lead and develop the team by impacting all aspects of launch vehicle structural engineering. This position will directly affect the history of space exploration and requires your dedication and attention toward safe and reliable spaceflight. 

We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!

Responsibilities:

• Deliver the flight GS2 tanks on time, within budget and meet system requirements. 
• Plan and coordinate the resources necessary to successfully design, build, execute testing, and certify the New Glenn second state structural elements.
• Collaborate closely with the engines business unit for requirements and interface management, programmatic collaboration, and qualification approval.
• Meet and exceed aggressive schedule, cost and performance requirements. 
• Lead the team in source selection for all structural commodities, supplier selection and management. 
• Establish, maintain and routinely report performance to plan on schedule, resources, cost, and technical performance metrics.  
• Identify, track, and mitigate risks to technical performance, cost and schedule. 
• Lead the team to develop and document structural design to support operations, integration, manufacturing, and quality. 
• Lead and develop the team through hiring, training, and mentoring while providing technical leadership. 
• Meet recurring cost target and manage risk and opportunities to per flight cost requirement. 
• Support commercial and government launch customer requests for information, proposals and alternate use cases. 
• Establish, maintain, and report on team safety products, fault trees, reliability, component level failure mode assessments, and operational hazards. 
• Develop project summary presentations and memos for executive review, internal team meetings, and support to the Blue Origin communications team. 

Minimum Qualifications:

• B.S. in an aerospace, mechanical, or systems engineering-related field, with 15+ years leadership experience related to complex integrated aerospac