Sr Manager - Structures - New Glenn Advanced Upper Stage

BLUE ORIGIN • West Melbourne, FL

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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. As a functional manager of a small, passionate, and accomplished team of varying experience levels, you will lead a team of structures engineers for New Glenn Advanced Upper Stage Tanks team. As the Tanks Engineering Manager, you will have technical, budgetary and schedule accountability for trade studies, detailed design, strength analysis, drawing release, and hardware qualification, and you will follow through on manufacturing, testing, and flight phases of the program. 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!

Requirements

• B.S. or equivalent experience in an aerospace, mechanical, or systems engineering-related field, with 8+ years experience.
• Experience running launch vehicle hardware or equivalent development program.
• Prior experience as technical or subsystem lead, coordinating a team in a fast-paced lean engineering environment.
• Demonstrated technical proficiency with the tools of structural design: CAD/PLM (Creo and Catia preferred), analysis (Hand calcs, FEA), and DFX.
• Experienced in leading programs and technology in aerospace development, crafting, deploying, and supporting complete flight systems.
• Leader with excellent organization, proficient written and verbal communication, demonstrated resourcefulness, sound business and technical judgment, and a bias for action.
• Successful experience in hiring and developing great people with skills and demonstrated ability to empower and prioritize effective teams and resolve conflicts.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment and ability to travel in support of the program, customer, and supplier activities.
• Must be able to travel up to 25-50% of time and to remote sites
• Ability to earn trust and maintain positive professional relationships.

Nice To Haves

• M.S. in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, or systems engineering and experience with launch vehicle development, production, and operations.
• Experience with verification, integration, and test, of orbital launch vehicles or human rated spacecraft.
• Demonstrated experience with composites, metallics, bolted joints, adhesive bonds, cryogenic propellants, and integration of large assemblies.
• Strong business management acumen and experience leading large, geographically dispersed programs with large subcontractors
• MBA, 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a growing team of engineers, while encouraging a culture of teamwork and innovation
• Lead structural design through the entire lifecycle to include production.
• Support around-the-clock production, integration, and testing at our manufacturing facilities, incorporate product design improvements to lower cost and deliver hardware at rate.
• Plan and coordinate the resources to effectively design, build, test, and certify the structural hardware.
• Provide technical leadership and oversight of design and development, with complete ownership of end item compliance to the defined requirements.
• Track and deliver on tight schedules, strict cost targets, and high-performance goals, driving rapid decision-making rooted in data and results.
• Identify, supervise, and mitigate risks to technical performance, cost, and schedule.
• Lead the team in source selection for all structural commodities, supplier selection and management.
• Lead team to develop and document system design to support operations, integration, manufacturing, and quality.
• Routinely report performance to plan on schedule, resources, cost, and technical performance metrics.
• Develop project summary presentations for customer reviews, internal team meetings and support to Blue Origin communications team

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.
• Paid Time Off: 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.
• Bonus amounts and eligibility are not guaranteed and subject to change and cancellation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees