Director Production Control

About the role

This role is part of Blue Origin Operations, which includes Integrated Supply Chain, Test Operations, Safety, Quality, and Mission Assurance. The role involves leading Production Control strategies, governance, and innovation across all manufacturing sites.

Responsibilities

• Improve and deploy Production Control policies, procedures, processes, and tools with a focus on short-range scheduling, release, and management of manufacturing work order activities.
• Drive disciplined adherence to work order release and management processes.
• Continually improve performance measures (KPI's) of the health of the tactical schedules and open work orders, as well as of the performance of the PC team.
• Actively resolve tactical issues involving demand, capacity constraints, and material availability.
• Identify and implement standard controls focusing primarily on cycle time reduction with a special focus on shared services or common capabilities.
• Represent Production Control in the development of system tools.
• Manage organization budget, forecast, and reconcile actuals.
• Collaborate with Production and Program organizations to maintain alignment on production priorities and capacity/capability changes.
• Anticipate potential schedule and personnel risks, and generate ideas, insight, and solutions to resolve or mitigate potential issues, followed by decisive action to implement solutions.
• Coach, mentor, and develop your team for future progression within Blue Origin.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in an engineering discipline, operations management, supply chain management, or other relevant field.
• 10+ years of experience in operations/production/supply planning, scheduling, materials management, or other Sales Inventory & Operations Planning related functional areas.
• Extensive experience in and understanding of complex manufacturing and production systems (aerospace, medical, or military environments).
• Build and lead a high-performing team that is tightly coordinated to key partners, including all teams supporting the manufacturing and supply chain of complex builds.
• Experience with ERP, MRP, and MES systems in a manufacturing environment.
• Highly effective and professional verbal and written communication skills with team, internal customers, and suppliers, including a strong focus on teamwork and internal/external customer satisfaction.
• A demonstrated ability to work cooperatively with teams across large geographic distances.
• A continuous improvement mindset.
• Passion for our mission and vision is required.

Desired Experience

• Experience in space systems and/or space launch.
• APICS, CPIM, CPSM, or CPF certification preferred.

Compensation Range

For WA applicants is $203,165.00 - $284,430.30

Culture Statement

Don’t meet all desired requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single desired qualification. At Blue Origin, we are dedicated to building an authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every desired qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.