Sr Manager Structural Analysis - Lunar Permanence

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

• Manage, develop, and grow a team of analysts
• Engage with external facing customers
• Communicate and align resources and priorities across multiple subsystems, across vehicles, and across business units
• Develop methods and processes to improve automation and expedite analysis cycle times
• Perform iterative structural sizing to support robust product design across all vehicle design phases
• Create, review, and approve analysis models and hand calculations
• Author, review, adjudicate, and/or approve structural analysis documentation, including databooks, drawings, stress reports, test plans, design and analysis standards, and requirements verification
• Setup and execute technical milestone reviews
• Execute coupled loads analysis in launch, free flight, and docked configurations

Requirements

• B.S. in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering
• 6+ years of experience in structural analysis
• Experience with analysis of metallic and composite hardware
• Experience with fluid product structural analysis, including tanks, tubes, manifolds, bellows, valves, etc.
• Experience in dynamic environment analysis, including vibroacoustics and shock
• Experience in space thermal environments
• Experience with fracture and fatigue analysis
• Experience with a wide range of analysis tools, including (but not limited to) NASTRAN, FEMAP, ANSYS, Hyperworks, Optistruct, HyperX, ADAMS
• 2+ years of experience in directly managing engineering staff

Qualifications

• Experience with spacecraft and/or launch vehicles
• Experience with analysis of additively manufactured parts
• Experience with topology optimization
• Experience with PTC Creo and Windchill
• Experience with material review boards (MRB)
• Experience across all phases of vehicle development, from concept formulation to build and test
• Experience with prototype and production vehicles