Senior Program Manager

Company: Blue Origin LLC
Location: Kent
Posted on: February 25, 2021

Job Description:

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 position will support all aspects of program management to include cost, schedule, technical design and risk management as well as working with Blue Origin internal organizations and suppliers to deliver a qualified system. 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! Qualifications:

• Minimum of a B.S. degree
• 15+ years industry experience in progressive program management roles - components to subsystem to system
• Hard-charging, highly energetic, organized PM to quickly jump in lead the program through qualification while working and managing Product Costs and transition from development to production
• Successful experience leading large program with over $50M annual revenue and 100+ people
• Analytical and quantitative skills and ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions and develop business cases, as well as the ability to clearly communicate insights to others.
• Extreme attention to detail and desire to roll up your--your sleeves while insisting on high standards.
• Set and delivery aggressive goals for development, manufacturing, operations and sales to support 5 year planning and program commitments
• Build a strong organization providing leadership, hiring and developing a high performance team
• Experience in Rocket Engine Development and Production
• Excellent communication (verbal and written) and collaboration skills that enable you to earn trust at all levels
• Demonstrated experience leading and managing small and large teams on fast-paced hardware and flight projects.
• Ability to lead and hold accountable a geographically dispersed team
• Experience with logic linked scheduling and Cost Account Management
• Experience with IMP/IMS, risk management, configuration management, requirements management processes
• Experience in budget management and reporting
• Leadership and management experience as well as a history of mentoring
• Passionate about space exploration and a future with millions of people living and working in space
• Highly organized and capable of planning and guiding complex technical work
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
• PMP credential or equivalent
• Bachelors, MBA or MS in Engineering or Aerospace field
• Experience across multiple portions of the product life cycle
• 10 years+ experience and technical depth in liquid rocket propulsion
• Experience with human spaceflight or high performance aircraft systems
• Experience with Primavera (P6), DOORS, CREO, Windchill
• Knowledge of systems engineering practices, fabrication, integration processes, quality and configuration management systems
• Experience with proposal leadership or support (tech/mgmt volumes, BOE development, etc.) To conform to U.S. Government commercial space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), 8 U.S.C. -- 1324b(a)(3), applicants for employment at Blue Origin must be a U.S. citizen or national, lawfully admitted for permanent residence into the U.S. (i.e. current green card holder), or lawfully admitted as a refugee or granted asylum under 8 U.S.C. -- 1157-1158. Learn more about the ITAR--here .-- Blue Origin is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to attracting, retaining, and developing a highly qualified, diverse, and dedicated work force. Blue Origin hires and promotes people on the basis of their qualifications, performance, and abilities. We support the establishment and maintenance of a workplace that fosters trust, equality, and teamwork, in which all employees recognize and appreciate the diversity of individual team members. We provide all qualified applicants for employment and employees with equal opportunities for hire, promotion, and other terms and conditions of employment, regardless of their race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin/ethnicity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status, or any other status or characteristic protected by federal, state, and/or local law. Blue Origin will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. For more information on "EEO Is the Law," please see here and here . Affirmative Action and Disability Accommodation Blue Origin is committed to taking affirmative steps to promote the employment and advancement of minorities, women, protected veterans, and persons with disabilities in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, and federal executive orders. Applicants who wish to view the available portion of Blue Origin's Affirmative Action Plans, or applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in the application and/or interview process, please contact us at EEOCompliance@blueorigin.com . Posted 4 Days Ago R6843 About Us Blue Origin was founded with a vision to enable a future where millions of people are living and working in space to benefit Earth. In order to preserve Earth, Blue Origin believes in the need to enable humanity to expand, explore, find new energy and material resources, and move industries that stress Earth into space. Blue Origin believes it has an important role in building a road to space and lowering the cost of getting there. At Blue Origin, we're working on this today by developing fully reusable launch vehicles and systems that are safe, reliable and affordable. Every launch vehicle is designed for human spaceflight from the beginning and able to ferry payloads to space.

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