Director, New Glenn Program Planning & Controls (PP&C)

BLUE ORIGIN • Seattle, WA

21d • $203,165 - $284,430

About The Position

Blue Origin is seeking a senior leader to own the Program Planning & Controls (PP&C) function for the New Glenn program, spanning the 7x2 and 9x4 rockets. The role sets the program’s multi-year strategy for schedule and risk integration, builds and leads a multi-team organization through subordinate managers, and advances AI and automation in scheduling and reporting tools. As the program’s senior PP&C authority, the Director represents program health in company and customer-facing reviews and operates as a peer to Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, and Finance leadership. The position holds program-level decision authority for schedule tradeoffs, baseline changes, and gate criteria.

The Director owns New Glenn’s Integrated Master Schedule and end-to-end PP&C processes across schedule, cost, risk, and performance management. The role establishes functional standards, governance, forecasts, reporting, and schedule-risk methods; integrates schedule interfaces across development, production, supply chain, facilities, and launch operations; and provides data-driven schedule and risk information for executive decisions and go/no-go recommendations. The Director also oversees organizational design, headcount and talent strategy, and development of managers and senior individual contributors to support increasing flight and production cadence.

Success means establishing a trusted, integrated, defensible schedule across development and cadence programs; reducing schedule surprises through proactive critical-path and negative-float management; building a scalable PP&C organization; fostering cross-functional trust; and enabling executive decision-making through clear, data-driven communication.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience.
• At least 14 years of program planning, scheduling, or PP&C experience in aerospace, defense, or other complex hardware/manufacturing programs.
• At least 8 years of leadership experience, including at least 3 years managing managers or leading multi-team functions.
• Demonstrated experience establishing or substantially maturing a PP&C function at program or enterprise scale.
• Deep expertise in Integrated Master Schedule development, critical path method, and schedule-risk analysis such as Monte Carlo or similar methods.
• Proven experience as the accountable functional authority in executive and external customer forums.
• Experience owning functional budget and headcount planning.
• Strong proficiency with scheduling tools such as Primavera P6, MS Project, or OPP, and PP&C/EVM systems.
• Ability to operate in high-ambition, fast-paced environments while balancing cost, schedule, and technical tradeoffs.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder-management, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Applicants must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted to the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
• A standard background check is required.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting both a legacy/production vehicle program and a next-generation development program simultaneously.
• Familiarity with launch-vehicle or spacecraft production environments, high-rate manufacturing ramp-up, or similar complex first-of-a-kind industrial scale-up.
• Experience with capital planning, value engineering, and facility or production capacity planning.
• Knowledge of NASA or government contracting processes, regulations, and customer requirements.
• Active or eligibility for a security clearance.
• PMP, IPMP, or similar program-management certification.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a multi-team PP&C organization through subordinate managers across New Glenn 7x2 and 9x4 scheduling, planning, and schedule risk analysis.
• Manage relationships with internal and external customers and stakeholders who rely on New Glenn schedules.
• Own PP&C organizational design, headcount planning, talent strategy, and hiring plans for increased flight and production cadence.
• Develop managers and senior individual contributors and build succession depth in schedule, cost, and risk disciplines.
• Establish PP&C functional standards, guidelines, metrics, and change-management rules across the program.
• Develop and integrate AI and automation into scheduling and schedule-reporting tools.
• Set the multi-year PP&C roadmap, including the path to an integrated schedule and risk environment for high-rate operations.
• Exercise Integrated Master Schedule baseline change authority and approve or escalate changes under program governance.
• Own decision frameworks and gate criteria, and serve as the accountable authority for schedule and risk inputs to go/no-go recommendations.
• Represent PP&C in program-level priority and resource tradeoff decisions alongside Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, and Finance leadership.
• Serve as the senior functional interface to corporate PP&C, capital governance, and Finance leadership.
• Own the program Integrated Master Schedule across the 7x2 and 9x4 New Glenn programs and upgrades, including executive/customer-facing and detailed execution schedules.
• Direct critical-path and negative-float identification, mitigation planning, and executive schedule reviews through subordinate managers.
• Establish and govern schedule baselines, change-control procedures, and variance and trend analysis.
• Set schedule-risk analysis methodology, including probabilistic and Monte Carlo modeling for rate runway, capacity planning, and contingency strategy.
• Own schedule interfaces across vehicle development, production, supply chain, facilities, and launch operations.
• Sponsor automation and material requirements planning (MRP) integration to simplify status, reporting, and production-system alignment.
• Ensure risk and opportunity action plans are integrated into schedule products.
• Define and own end-to-end PP&C processes spanning schedule, cost, risk, and performance management (EVM or equivalent) across both vehicle generations.
• Establish a single source of truth integrating supply chain, facilities, and production-readiness milestones.
• Own rolling forecasts and earned-value reporting that support executive visibility into program health.
• Align PP&C with operations teams and production systems without duplication.
• Serve as the accountable schedule and program-controls authority in executive and customer briefings.
• Own schedule-health packages, negative-float summaries, cadence updates, and risk assessments presented to senior leadership and external stakeholders.
• Provide a defensible, data-driven basis for decision memos and go/no-go recommendations.
• Represent Blue Origin’s PP&C posture to government and commercial customer leadership.
• Partner with enterprise and business-unit technology leadership to mature scheduling tools and capabilities.
• Foster accountability, precision, collaborative problem-solving, and continuous improvement aligned with Blue Origin’s mission-driven values.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Basic and supplemental life insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Short- and long-term disability insurance
• 401(k) with company match of up to 5%
• Education Support Program
• Stock options for regular employees working at least 20 hours per week
• Paid time off of up to four weeks per year, based on weekly scheduled hours
• Up to 14 company-paid holidays
• Some employees may be eligible for benefits and bonuses based on role type, job level, and company discretion

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director