Senior Manager Structures – New Glenn

Senior Manager Structures – New Glenn

Requirements

• B.S. in an aerospace, mechanical, or systems engineering-related field, with 8+ years of complex mechanical systems development experience.
• Highly organized leader with excellent technical written and verbal communication skills with proven track record of resourcefulness, strong business and technical judgement and bias for action from their previous assignments.
• Successful experience in hiring and developing great people with diverse skills and demonstrated ability to empower and coordinate effective teams and resolve issues.
• Comfortable working in a fast paced, multifaceted work environment and ability to travel in support of the program, customer, and supplier activities.
• Demonstrated experience managing multi-functional teams during design, procurement and build cycles of aerospace/aeronautical vehicles.
• Experience in project planning and successful execution of projects to cost and schedule targets.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Deliver on tight schedules, strict cost targets, and high-performance goals, driving rapid decision-making rooted in data and results.
• Plan and coordinate the resources vital to optimally design, build, test, and certify the New Glenn Stage 1 pressurized structures.
• Lead the pressurized structure design and development through the entire lifecycle to include production.
• 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.
• Identify, supervise, and mitigate risks to technical performance, cost, and schedule.
• Lead and develop the team through hiring, training, and mentoring while providing technical leadership.
• Meet recurring cost target and lead risk and opportunities to per flight cost requirement.
• Support commercial and government launch customer requests for information, proposals, and alternate use cases.
• Develop project summary presentations for customer reviews, internal team meetings and support to Blue Origin communications team.

Preferred Qualifications

• M.S. in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, or systems engineering and experience with launch vehicle development, production, and operations.
• Prior experience as technical or subsystem lead with an understanding pressurized structure, friction stir welding and cryogenic environments.
• Experience with verification, integration, and test, of orbital launch vehicles or human rated spacecraft.
• Strong business management competence and experience leading large, geographically dispersed programs.
• Familiarity with design drawing and GD&T practices, CREO and Windchill design lifecycle tools and structural and fluid/thermal analysis tools and practices such as ANSYS and Thermal Desktop.