Director New Glenn 7-Engine Stage One AFT Module

Director New Glenn 7-Engine Stage One AFT Module

Requirements

• B.S. in an aerospace, mechanical, or systems engineering-related field, with 12+ years of sophisticated mechanical systems development experience.
• A highly organized leader with excellent technical written and verbal communication skills with a proven track record of resourcefulness, strong business, and technical judgment, and bias for action from their previous assignments.
• Successful experience managing and leading great people with diverse skills and demonstrated ability to empower and coordinate 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.
• Demonstrated experience leading multi-functional teams during the 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

• Mature New Glenn GS1 AFT Module engineering in support of moving from development production to rate production.
• Lead the development of cases and implementation of engineering changes in support of New Glenn GS1 cost, rate, and performance improvement.
• Direct a team providing 24/7 line-side support to resolve emergent Material Review nonconformance or other production issues.
• Lead the engineering planning and support of initial New Glenn GS1 AFT Module refurbishment on-site at the Refurbishment Facility.
• Indirect management of system and structural analysis support of engineering issue resolution and change implementation.
• Leading the resolution of remaining system qualification and verification activities within the GS1 AFT Module end item definition.
• Identify, track, 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 targets and lead risks and opportunities per flight cost requirement.
• Support commercial and government launch customer requests for information, proposals, and alternate use cases.
• Establish, maintain, and report on team safety products, fault trees, reliability, component level failure mode assessments, and operational hazards.
• Develop project summary presentations for customer reviews, internal team meetings, and Blue Origin communications team support.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.
• M.S. in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, or systems engineering and experience with launch vehicle development, production, and operations.
• Strong business management competence and experience leading large geographically dispersed programs with large subcontractors.
• 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.