Sr Business Operations - New Glenn

BLUE ORIGIN • West Melbourne, WA

4d • $133,500 - $203,263

About The Position

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. 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! Ownership and Operational Excellence are foundational to our organizational leadership, and it is the way we operate, integrated into all the company's processes. Through our principles, values, and concepts, we seek to streamline our processes, eliminate waste, and make the most of our resources. We develop and engage every employee to continually improve all processes to a high standard so we can safely deliver value to our stakeholders and achieve results.

Requirements

• B.S. degree in Engineering, Business, Project Management, Operations, or equivalent job experience.
• 10+ years of project management experience.
• Possess high attention to detail and strong organizational/coordination skills.
• Demonstrated ability to build trusting and effective working relationships that improve team performance and deliver results.
• Experience managing work within large organizations or complex projects that are geographically dispersed.
• Working knowledge of design process, manufacturing, and configuration management principles and practices.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Skills for hands-on problem solving, with a passion for spacecraft systems.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, multifaceted environment.
• Ability to perform and work in an “unstructured” environment and navigate ambiguity.

Nice To Haves

• MBA or Advanced degree such as M.S. in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, or systems engineering or MBA.
• Experience with launch vehicle development, production, and operations
• Strong analytic skills and a high degree of proficiency in analytics.
• Ability to handle, manipulate large amounts of data.
• Experience working with business analytics tools, and building tools to for Data Analytics (Excel, SQL)
• Experience with resources-loaded schedules
• Program Management Professional (PMP) certification and Earned Value Management System (EVMS) experience.
• Experience with critical path scheduling, IMP/IMS, risk management, requirements management and Cost Account Management such as EVM.
• Experience with verification, integration, and test, of orbital launch vehicles or human rated spacecraft.
• Strong business management skill and experience managing large, geographically dispersed programs with large subcontractors.
• Experience with New Product Introduction (NPI)
• Experience with Primavera (P6), CREO, Windchill, Confluence, Jira, Tableau, SQL, MySQL.

Responsibilities

• Develop comprehensive plans to develop, manufacture, qualify and integrate Payload Accommodations sub-systems.
• Coordinate with design engineers, procurement, procurement, operations, test engineers, production, and test engineering, to ensure all aspects of the build and test are driving to plan.
• Manage key program metrics (and associated reporting tools) in areas such as: budget, engineering schedules, equipment schedules, procurement schedules, build schedules, test schedules, program management status reports, and resource plans.
• Develop recovery strategies when non-conformances or other escapes are identified.
• Identify risk, document, communicate, develop mitigation plans and drive to an acceptable level.
• Communicate status, critical paths, challenges, and recommended solutions.
• Track budgets and manage the committed/ uncommitted forecast, variance and other financial metrics working closely with the GS1 Finance team.
• Develop change assessments and find alternatives to mitigate budget increases.
• Deliver actionable insights on financial performance and opportunities to reduce costs without impacting performance.
• Develop and manage detailed schedules & trackers for all build and test activities.
• Coordinate progress with higher level IMS.
• Perform schedule baseline change control, collect, and track performance, conduct critical path and variance analyses.
• Provide regular updates to all team members on progress and risks to meet overall schedule.
• Collaborate with purchasing and supplier management to ensure on-time delivery of hardware (flight/ground) to Integration.
• Ensure resource and facility conflicts are resolved.

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.
• Stock Options for all regular employees (working at least 20 hours/week)
• Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree