Structures Manager – GS2 Payload Accommodations – Upgrades and Studies

Structures Manager – GS2 Payload Accommodations – Upgrades and Studies

Requirements

• Experience managing a highly dynamic and development program with an approximate budget of $10-20M.
• Engineering experience with detail design, analysis, build, test, and qualification of flight hardware.
• Experience hiring, training, allocating resources, and managing a multi-site team.
• B.S. in an aerospace, mechanical, or systems engineering-related field, with 5+ years of complex product development experience.
• Program and technical leadership experience in an aerospace development environment with experience in full lifecycle development of aerospace systems, designing, deploying, and supporting one or more flight systems.
• Highly organized leader with excellent technical written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated track record of resourcefulness, strong business and technical judgement, and a bias for action from their previous assignments.
• Successful experience in hiring and developing great people with skill sets, and a demonstrated ability to motivate and organize effective teams and resolve conflicts.
• Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly dynamic work environment.
• Ability to travel in support of the program, customer, and supplier activities.
• 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

• Program Management – Plan and coordinate the resources necessary to successfully design, build, execute testing, and certify upgrades for the New Glenn second stage payload fairing and/or fixed adapters.
• Review and approve design concepts, drawings, analysis, test plans, qualification plans, manufacturing and build plans, processes and procedures in support of developing flight ready hardware.
• Responsible for reviewing and reporting on monthly cost and schedule variances, corrective actions and supporting finance and schedule updates.
• Provide technical and programmatic leadership by supporting staffing plans, hiring, and training plans.
• Provide daily support, guidance, and management of the payload fairing and fixed adapter upgrades and studies team.
• Work with design and manufacturing teams to identify and resolve technical issues throughout the product lifecycle.
• Develop project summary presentations for internal reviews and team meetings.
• Drive execution of complex development programs on budget and schedule while maintaining production operations.
• Establish and maintain regular business rhythm, consistent products, action tracking, and consolidate information for effective decision making.
• Develop efficient program management reporting for program and company level reviews.
• Act as a liaison between various internal/external businesses partners and process owners.
• Collaborate with other Blue Origin business units for requirements and interface management, programmatic collaboration, and qualification approval.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong business management acumen and experience managing large, geographically dispersed programs with multiple subcontractors.
• Experience with verification, integration, and test, of orbital launch vehicles or human rated spacecraft.
• 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.