Sr. Manager, Engine Control System Avionics

About the role

This role is part of the Blue Origin Engines business unit where our focus is the design, development, manufacturing, testing and flight support of cost-optimized engines and propulsion systems. These engines are designed for multiple uses and are powering the next generation of rockets aimed at commercial, civil, national security, and human spaceflight missions.

Responsibilities

• Manage your project scope by ensuring scrappy and cost-effective execution while maintaining a tight grip on the project deliverables needed to meet program objectives.
• Identify and manage technical and programmatic risks/opportunities. This includes technical, scope (i.e., cost and schedule), asset and safety risks and opportunities specific to program and project execution.
• Risk management includes identifying, documenting, communicating, developing mitigation plans and collaborating with your peers & program leaders to drive outcomes to program acceptable levels.
• Cook up and partner with Enterprise functions to drive subsystem cost and meet delivery objectives.
• Track and manage your team execution, and subsystem cost/life cycle cost.
• Create the framework used to develop and drive collection of project data and use this data to inform & monitor key project metrics.
• Technical Leadership: Develop and oversee the technical plan, ensuring it aligns to both negotiated customer requirements (vehicle and engine) and internal design criteria.
• Own the overall lifecycle of your assigned product scope from development through qualification/rate production and successful cost-optimized commercial flight operations.
• Manage interdisciplinary engineering tasks for overall system success.
• Ensure the quality of engineering outputs, providing technical direction and guidance to the team.
• Support requirement decomposition and allocation, systems engineering, technical design, analysis, and verification/validation – including strong management and bi-directional alignment of interfaces between customers and project technical efforts.
• Functional Management: Oversee the full lifecycle of your employees including talent acquisition, employee development, and when needed, performance management.
• Foster an environment of continuous growth and learning, ensuring compliance with HR processes and policies.

Requirements

• Proven track record of leading and managing teams to deliver complex engineering subsystem or products.
• Minimum of a B.S. degree in Engineering or technical field, or in lieu of a technical degree, must show significant demonstrated experience leading teams designing/developing complex engineered products.
• 8+ years of experience in a relevant engineering field, with significant experience in avionics systems and/or control systems.
• Basic knowledge across relevant engineering disciplines, including requirements negotiation, design, analysis, manufacturing, testing and vehicle integration.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate across all levels of the organization.

Qualifications

• Experience with resource/budget management and reporting.
• Experience with Agile, IMP-level scheduling, risk management, configuration management, requirements management processes.
• Demonstrated ability to lead change and drive continuous improvement.
• Familiarity with industry-leading tools such as Simulink, Jules, Windchill, AMESIM or other physics based modeling tools.
• Hands-on experience with the development lifecycle of avionics and control subsystems.
• Experience in planning and executing integration and test programs for avionics and control subsystems.
• Proven ability to develop and maintain product and subsystem roadmaps.

Skills

• Technical expertise in avionics and control systems.
• Leadership and project management skills.
• Communication and collaboration abilities.
• Ability to manage risk and mitigate potential issues.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and project management tools.
• Knowledge of industry-standard tools and techniques.
• Experience with budget management and resource allocation.
• Experience with systems engineering and technical design.
• Ability to develop and maintain product roadmaps.

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 WA applicants is $183,807.00 - $257,328.75

Schedule

Not specified