Senior Manager, Deployable Structures and Separation Systems – Lunar Core Components Mechanical Team

About the role

This role is part of the Lunar Permanence business unit, which develops Blue Origin’s Blue Moon landers and related products. The role involves managing product-focused teams working to develop, build and test hardware that is critical to current and future Lunar missions.

Responsibilities

• Define, own, and control the subsystem technical baseline, performing technical work and providing technical leadership of the highest caliber.
• Define, own, and control the subsystem cost and schedule baseline, driving continuous improvement and refinement of the baseline to meet needs and targets in a dynamic development environment.
• Manage a team of engineers to specify, design, analyze, manufacture, integrate, test, and deliver hardware and software components that satisfy mission objectives while balancing cost, schedule, and risk.
• Manage external procurements and internal hardware dependencies required to meet subsystem deliveries.
• Manage your direct reports’ professional development (e.g., performance reviews, compensation and promotion management, routine one-on-one development conversations) and coach them on performance.
• Drive excellence in programmatic and project operations through data-driven management approach.

Requirements

• Experience in leading and mentoring technical teams and functional groups, demonstrating strong leadership skills and a commitment to employee development.
• 8+ years of relevant experience in the full lifecycle development of aerospace structures and/or mechanisms.
• Demonstrated experience in one or more of: requirement definition, design solution definition, implementation, integration, verification and validation, qualification, commissioning, and operation.
• Resource management experience leading multidisciplinary development projects, including managing staffing, budget, and schedule.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a B.S. degree in engineering or another technical field.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing, building and testing pyrotechnically actuated mechanisms.
• Experience designing, building and testing large deployable structures.
• Experience with verification, integration, and test, of integrated subsystems or systems on a spacecraft.
• Experience with space vehicle mission operations.
• Experience managing suppliers/subcontracts.
• Familiarity with agile project management.
• Experience with critical path scheduling, IMP/IMS, risk management, requirements management and Cost Account Management such as EVM.
• M.S. or Ph.D. degree in engineering or another technical field.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance.
• Paid parental leave.
• Short and long-term disability.
• 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%.
• Education Support Program.
• Stock Options for all regular employees (working at least 20 hours/week).
• Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.