Sr Business Operations - New Glenn

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• Develop comprehensive plans to develop, manufacture, qualify and integrate Payload Accommodations sub-systems.
• Cookordination with design engineers, procurement, procurement, operations, test engineers, production, and test engineering, to ensure all aspects of the build and test are driving to plan.
• Manage key program metrics (and associated reporting tools) in areas such as: budget, engineering schedules, equipment schedules, procurement schedules, build schedules, test schedules, program management status reports, and resource plans.
• Develop recovery strategies when non-conformances or other escapes are identified.
• Identify risk, document, communicate, develop mitigation plans and drive to an acceptable level.
• Communicate status, critical paths, challenges, and recommended solutions.

Qualifications

• B.S. degree in Engineering, Business, Project Management, Operations, or equivalent job experience.
• 10+ years of project management experience.
• Possess high attention to detail and strong organizational/coordination skills.
• Demonstrated ability to build trusting and effective working relationships that improve team performance and deliver results.
• Experience managing work within large organizations or complex projects that are geographically dispersed.
• Working knowledge of design process, manufacturing, and configuration management principles and practices.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Skills for hands-on problem solving, with a passion for spacecraft systems.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, multifaceted environment.
• Ability to perform and work in an “unstructured” environment and navigate ambiguity.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA or Advanced degree such as M.S. in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, or systems engineering or MBA.
• Experience with launch vehicle development, production, and operations.
• Strong analytic skills and a high degree of proficiency in analytics.
• Experience working with business analytics tools, and building tools to for Data Analytics (Excel, SQL).
• Experience with resources-loaded schedules.
• Program Management Professional (PMP) certification and Earned Value Management System (EVMS) experience.
• Experience with critical path scheduling, IMP/IMS, risk management, requirements management and Cost Account Management such as EVM.
• Experience with verification, integration, and test, of orbital launch vehicles or human rated spacecraft.
• Strong business management skill and experience managing large, geographically dispersed programs with large subcontractors.
• Experience with New Product Introduction (NPI).
• Experience with Primavera (P6), CREO, Windchill, Confluence, Jira, Tableau, SQL, MySQL.

Pay

Compensation Range For CO applicants is $133,500.00 - $186,898.95 WA applicants is $145,188.00 - $203,263.20 Other Site Ranges May Differ

Schedule

N/A

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.

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.