Senior Project Engineer - New Glenn

Application close date:

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed.

At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We're working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our diverse team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight!

This role supports the development and operations of New Glenn, a single-configuration heavy-lift launch vehicle capable of routinely carrying people and payloads to Earth's orbit and beyond. Engineered with a reusable first stage and a seven-meter payload fairing, New Glenn is building the road to space.

We are a diverse team of collaborators, doers, and problem- solvers who are relentlessly committed to a culture of safety. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable space flight. Join us in lowering the cost of access to space and enabling Blue Origin's vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit Earth.

You will collaborate with the New Glenn components team to hit cost, schedule, technical design landmarks while leading emergent risk & opportunity for New Glenn. You will ensure adherence across the various teams to standards and best practices while working to improve the capabilities of the team through coaching and training more junior project members.

This role requires excellent organizational skills to ensure design, development, qualification, and production hardware is delivered to New Glenn. Excellent written and oral communication skills will be required to effectively connect with Blue Origin internal organizations across multiple sites as well as a diverse supply base. The ideal candidate will have the ability to quickly frame an objective problem statement and calibrate to their audience in a way that acquires help when needed and builds confidence problems are well understood and efficiently worked. The ideal candidate is hard-working when it comes to achieving success to the point it is infectious among the broader team. You will need to influence those outside of the team to meet ambitious goals for development, design, and industrialization of GS1 products.

This role will present status, risks & opportunities, variances, and recovery plans to engineering and program management while quickly adapting to dynamic business rhythms. We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and dedication to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Bias for action and passion for our mission and vision are required!

Responsibilities:

Develop and support execution of project plans for valve, actuator, and regulator projects; lead cross-functional teams, manage and report progress

Identify risks and develop mitigation plans

Build metrics and data reports to provide program insights to performance

Facilitate change boards to assess programmatic impact of change requests

Drive process improvements to continuously improve program operation, cost, and schedules

Coordinate with procurement, internal and external manufacturing, to ensure that hardware priorities are well understood and are actively managed to support the need dates

Identify schedule-critical hardware, equipment, people, and facilities; resolve constraints

Develop recovery strategies when non-conformances or other escapes are identified

Minimum Qualifications:

B.S./B.A. degree in engineering or another technical field

7+ years of experience in leading design, development, integration, or testing - preferably with aerospace hardware or complex technical systems. Candidates with various levels of experience are welcome to apply

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