Program Director, New Shepard Crew Capsule

Company: Blue Origin LLC
Location: Kent
Posted on: September 12, 2020

Job Description:

Program Director, New Shepard Crew Capsule Kent, WA

As part of a small, passionate and accomplished team of experts, you will be responsible for all aspects of the Crew Capsule design, production and certification for the New Shepard human spaceflight system. You should be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and contributing to innovative solutions while demonstrating leadership, technical competence, and attention to detail. We put a strong emphasis on hands-on technical ability, as our leaders are directly involved with projects and problem-solving, and manage through active engagement with the team. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your dedicated commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable spaceflight.

Responsibilities:

Deliver Crew Capsule program commitments across design engineering, production, test, verification and certification, and operations

Manage integrated product teams responsible for all vehicle subsystems including structure, mechanical systems, propulsion, avionics hardware, software and environmental control systems

Ownership of program risks and opportunities, including risk mitigation and opportunity realization strategies

Ownership of Crew Capsule program (schedule, budget, technical) planning, execution, monitoring, reporting, change management and variance recovery

Budget management with emphasis on planning and meeting commitments including Annual Operating Plan, 5 year plan, and long range business plan

Ownership of Root Cause and Corrective Actions to closure

Chair Change Control Board for Crew Capsule

Development and management of program budget and schedule milestones to meet goals allocated from New Shepard Program Manager

Chair Change Control Board for program

Work with engineering functional department and support organization leads to identify staff to support Crew Capsule development project

Regularly report program key performance metrics, variance and recovery plans

Qualifications :

Minimum of a B.S. degree in aerospace, mechanical, industrial, or manufacturing engineering; physics; or other major requiring engineering or manufacturing core courses

15+ years of experience in aerospace development with a preference for crewed flight vehicles

Successful experience leading large program with over $50M annual revenue, 100+ people, and 8+ subsystems

Experience with design, assembly, certification, operations and maintenance of aerospace vehicles

Earned Value Management (EVM) experience

Experience with planning, scheduling tools, BOE, WBS, IMS, Critical Path Analysis, MRP, ERP

Knowledge of systems engineering practices and system safety analysis techniques as applied to human transportation systems

Extremely customer focused with strong communication skills

Passionate about space exploration and a future with millions of people living and working in space

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.

Master of Business Administration

Project Management certification (PMP/Certified Project Manager) or Program Management Office (PMO)

Prior experience in DO-160 and DO-178 type programs

Experience with Oracle Primavera P6, DOORS, CREO, Windchill, JIRA

Demonstrated experience in human spaceflight systems

Knowledge of aerospace vehicle fabrication, integration processes, quality and configuration management systems

Blue Origin offers a phenomenal work environment and awesome culture with competitive compensation, benefits, 401K, and relocation.

Blue Origin is an  equal opportunity employer . In addition to EEO being the law, it is a policy that is fully consistent with Blue's principles. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to status as a protected veteran or a qualified individual with a disability, or other protected status such as race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, pregnancy or age. Blue Origin prohibits any form of workplace harassment.

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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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