Sr Manager – Tanks & Structures – New Glenn Stage II

Sr Manager – Tanks & Structures – New Glenn Stage II

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, working in a fast-paced lean engineering environment and coordinating a team.
• 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 diverse 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.
• 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.
• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion.

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 facility, incorporate product design improvements to lower cost and deliver hardware to support rate production.
• Plan and coordinate the resources vital 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.
• 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.