Director, Mission Assurance - New Glenn

Company: Blue Origin LLC
Location: Kent
Posted on: September 17, 2020

Job Description:

We are a mission-driven team of diverse collaborators, doers, and problem-solvers relentlessly committed to a culture of safety. As part of a hardworking and accomplished team you will lead, coordinate, and take responsibility for all Safety and Mission Assurance functions, activities, and deliverables for the New Glenn launch vehicle program including design and certification, human-rating, operations, recovery, refurbishment, and re-flight. You will work and collaborate with senior managers in New Glenn and across the company functional areas including engines to ensure safe and successful development, test, and operations of the New Glenn program. You will directly impact the future of space flight and help us make progress towards our mission of building the road to space through reusable rockets. Join us in advancing our vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit Earth!

Responsibilities :

Lead a matrixed team of system safety, reliability, product integrity, and mission assurance engineers to ensure safe and successful missions.

Provide inputs to program planning to ensure safety and mission assurance objectives are adequately addressed.

Coordinate with program to establish and refine risk thresholds and goals for safety and mission success.

Provide S&MA disposition of risks to safety and mission success.

Ensure safety and reliability analyses are thorough, correct, and any derived requirements/mitigations are verified.

Participate as a non-advocate in gating engineering, test, and mission operations reviews at all technical levels.

Provide technical expertise to manufacturing and test activities to improve product safety, reliability, and quality.

Provide non-advocate support to corrective and preventive action processes.

Provide independent review of failure and defect root cause analyses, and mishap investigations.

Establish, track, and report key performance metrics to S&M A to support New Glenn goals.

Review and provide S&MA disposition of significant changes to, or shortfalls against, the human flight certification baseline.

? Qualifications :

Passion for our mission: Millions of people living and working in space!

B.S. degree in aerospace, mechanical, electrical, or equivalent engineering experience

15+ years’ experience in one or more of the following: Experience with launch vehicle and/or spacecraft development and operations

Experience in mission assurance analysis, products, and roles and responsibilities.

Leadership experience with growing organizations, and workforce culture change

Familiarity with system safety engineering, risk management, hazard analysis methods, and root cause analysis

Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion

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.

20+ years of total work experience

5+ years’ experience in safety and mission assurance processes, analysis, and tools.

Launch vehicle and associated ground systems development experience.

Some human spaceflight and launch vehicle certification experience.

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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