SLD Thermal System Engineering Operations Lead

BLUE ORIGIN • Los Angeles, CA

21h

About The Position

This role is part of the Lunar Permanence business unit, which develops Blue Origin’s Blue Moon landers and related products. To further Blue Origin's mission of millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth, we are building sustainable infrastructure for our transport of crew and cargo from Earth to the lunar surface. As part of a hardworking team of engineers, you will ensure the development of the spacecraft thermal control system is delivered on time and on budget to meet our commitments for the Lunar Permanence organization. You should be comfortable working in a fast-paced and often uncertain environment, developing supporting processes to enable programmatic efficiency and enabling the team to execute. This role will require demonstrating personal leadership, inter- and cross-team coordination, and attention to detail. You will work directly with NASA and our National Team Partners as part of the Human Landing System (HLS) Sustaining Lunar Development (SLD) program.

Requirements

• 5+ years of project management experience related to mechanical engineering or hardware development.
• Expertise with Project Management Tools such as MS Project, P6 Primavera or similar.
• Experience with IMP/IMS and configuration management.
• Experience with logic-linked scheduling.
• Experience with Jira.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• Formal project management training or certification.
• Prior support of a program for spaceflight hardware with an understanding of the hardware development cycle.
• Experience with P6 Primavera.
• Experience automating schedule health evaluations and continuously improving schedules.
• Experience with budget and Cost Account Management such as EVM or similar principles.
• Experience managing subcontracts, crafting statements of work.
• Expertise with Jira including building dashboards and managing/planning engineering efforts through Jira tools.

Responsibilities

• Work with team leadership and support the development of robust plans of product deliveries and lead tracking of key operating metrics - including technical progress, cost, and schedule.
• Identify and define problem statements and have enough experience to build and support a realistic project schedule.
• Understand critical path and variance drivers and work to reconcile.
• Support management of budget across all control points including driving estimate to complete assessments.
• Coordinate the efforts across the product team comprised of engineering, program planning & control, supply chain, manufacturing/ production engineering, facilities, production, tooling, quality, and test.
• Support purchase orders, contracts, and service level work agreements aligned with program resources.
• Understand and drive linkage between Material Requirements Planning system and IMS.
• Support planning of technical efforts via agile concepts leveraging company tools.
• Enable and maintain regular business rhythm, action tracking, and consolidate information for effective decision making, including maintaining and routinely reporting performance to plan on schedule, resources, program/ product cost, and technical performance metrics for program reviews.
• Support management of wiki space that enables team to have efficient reference to key information.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability, 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%, and an Education Support Program.
• Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.
• Dependent on role type and job level, employees may be eligible for benefits and bonuses based on the company's intent to reward individual contributions and enable them to share in the company's results, or other factors at the company's sole discretion.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed