Director Mission Assurance – New Shepard

Director Mission Assurance – New Shepard

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field.
• 12+ years of experience in launch vehicle, test, operations, space vehicle maintenance, or industry relevant mission assurance analysis.
• Demonstrated success providing technical expertise to improve operational safety and reliability, and establishing risk thresholds that drive mission success.
• Strong proficiency with safety and mission assurance processes, analysis, and tools.
• Familiarity with system safety engineering, risk management, hazard analysis methods, and root cause analysis.
• Technical leadership experience with growing organizations, driving workforce culture and process change, and leading through influence.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a proven record of leading through influence.
• 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

• Coordinate SQMA efforts with a matrixed team of system safety, reliability, product integrity, and mission assurance engineers to ensure safe and successful tests and missions.
• Define and monitor mission assurance program specifications and processes to assure mission and test success.
• Support the development, implementation and maintenance of quality policy and procedures, and safety policy and procedures including performing internal audits to assess.
• Provide inputs to test and mission 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.
• Represent Mission Assurance at program, test, and material review boards.
• Provide disposition of risks relevant 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 for test stand and launch pad activation.
• 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 SQMA to support Program goals.
• Travel approximately 25% of the time to test and launch sites.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree in aerospace, mechanical, electrical, or similar field.
• Launch vehicle and associated ground systems development experience.
• Continuous Improvement, Lean, Six Sigma knowledge and experience.
• Human spaceflight and launch vehicle certification experience.