Payload Integration Sr. Manager

About the role

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 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 orbital launch vehicle capable of routinely carrying people and payloads to low-Earth orbit, geostationary transfer orbit, cislunar, and beyond. Its first stage is fully reusable, and the vehicle was designed from the beginning to be human-capable.

As part of a small, passionate and accomplished team of experts, you will manage the Payload Integration team. You will share in our team’s impact on all aspects of payload integration and launch site operations, working in close coordination with the Payload Operations and Payload Specialists teams. As part of Payload Integration, you will work as part of a highly skilled team reporting through Mission Management’s Payload Projects and Integration team. The position will involve coordination with responsible engineers, systems engineers, safety, mission managers and other launch operations teams to plan and execute launch site operations. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your dedicated commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable spaceflight.

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Responsibilities

• Manage the Payload Integration team and support Payload Operations functions.
• Manage a group of highly skilled engineers to perform integrated payload processing studies and activities in a 100K (ISO-8) class or higher cleanroom.
• Serve as the launch site focal point for spacecraft interface requirements (IRD, ICD, etc.) evaluation.
• Perform thorough technical assessments of proposed internal and external payload interface requirements to understand impacts to the launch site.
• Direct hands-on assembly, integration, and testing of payload fairings, adapters, spacecraft, and related flight hardware. This includes interfacing with structural, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, hydraulic and pneumatic equipment.
• Capture and implement launch system upgrades and changes to support mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, thermal, and shock environments, as well as contamination and communication requirements for a board variety of spacecraft types.
• Work closely with engineers, mission managers, and customers to define payload integration processes for payload processing and mission unique hardware.
• Administer