Sr. Manager - Transportation Operations

About the role

This role is part of Blue Origin Operations, which is comprised of Integrated Supply Chain, Test Operations, Safety, Quality, and Mission Assurance. This includes Manufacturing and Supply Chain support across all Blue Origin facilities.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate a safety oriented approach to transportation and crane operations, reducing risk of potential injuries and accidents
• Be an ambassador of Blue Leadership Principles, focusing on demonstrating operational excellence while promoting teamwork, employee engagement, and good employee morale
• Cook up planning of personnel and transportation equipment that ensures operational execution to include resource risks assessments, tooling requirements, equipment and rigging needs, and team scheduling across cranes and operators
• Establish critical internal and external stakeholder relationships across
• Manage, direct and support assembly, disassembly, and set and configure Modular Trailers and SPMT (Sheuerle, KAMAG) in any configuration required for Stage Transportation between Blue Origin facilities
• Perform pre-mission dry runs to ensure functionality and operational readiness of transportation equipment and personnel
• Carry out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies including but not limited to interviewing, hiring, training, planning and directing work

Qualifications

• Has background managing transport operations of critical flight hardware and oversized loads including personnel management to support all transport operations
• Experience with range safety and technical documents to comply with AFSPCMAN 91-7105
• + years as a manager of a technical team
• Strong project management, and team leadership
• 8+ years of engineering drawings/sketches and can ensure that loads, loading methods, load securing and load transport comply with plan
• Demonstrated effectiveness in conflict-resolution and an ability to bring a group to a decision
• Demonstrated leadership in establishing a high performing safety culture
• Demonstrated effectiveness in setting high standards of performance and holding teams accountable to include implementing continuous improvement to improve processes, methods and practices

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.