Senior Project Manager

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 goal is to build sustainable infrastructure for transporting crew and cargo from Earth to the lunar surface.

Responsibilities

• Work with team leadership and support the development of robust plans of product deliveries and lead tracking of key operating metrics - including technical progress, cost, and schedule.
• Identify and define problem statements and have enough experience to build and support a realistic project schedule.
• Understand critical path and variance drivers and work to reconcile.
• Coordinate the efforts across the product team comprised of engineering, program planning & control, supply chain, manufacturing/ production engineering, facilities, production, tooling, quality, and test.
• Support purchase orders, contracts, and service level work agreements aligned with program resources.
• Support planning of technical efforts via agile concepts leveraging company tools.
• Enable and maintain regular business rhythm, action tracking, and consolidate information for effective decision making, including maintaining and routinely reporting performance to plan on schedule, resources, program/ product cost, and technical performance metrics for program reviews.
• Support management of wiki space that enables team to have efficient reference to key information.

Requirements

• 8+ years of project management experience related to mechanical engineering or hardware development.
• Minimum of a B.S. degree in engineering, business, or technical.
• Expertise with Project Management Tools such as MS Project, P6 Primavera or similar.
• Experience with IMP/IMS and configuration management.
• Experience with logic-linked scheduling.
• Experience with Jira.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Qualifications

• Formal project management training or certification.
• Prior support of a program for spaceflight hardware with an understanding of the hardware development cycle.
• Experience with P6 Primavera.
• Experience automating schedule health evaluations and continuously improving schedules.
• Experience with budget and Cost Account Management such as EVM or similar principles.
• Experience managing subcontracts, crafting statements of work.
• Expertise with Jira including building dashboards and managing/planning engineering efforts through Jira tools.

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.

Pay

Base Pay Range For CA applicants is $121,023.00 - $169,432.20 CO applicants is $110,938.00 - $155,312.85 WA applicants is $121,023.00 - $169,432.20 Other Site Ranges May Differ

Schedule

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