Technical Project Manager

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

• Establish and own the Gen 2 Production Operations program management system: weekly status cadence, monthly program reviews, decision gate packages, risk register, and action item tracking
• Build and maintain the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) in partnership with the Master Scheduler, ensuring all major program milestones are tracked against need dates and forecast dates with explicit delta visibility
• Identify schedule compression opportunities, parallel workstreams, and de-scope options to close gaps between target and forecast dates
• Drive all near-term critical decision gates to closure, including facility layout and requirements definition, workcenter standup, tank design lock, and long-lead purchase orders
• Build decision packages that give the Director and VP the information needed to make high-consequence decisions with confidence and speed
• Serve as the Production Operations representative in all ME&T tooling reviews, ensuring active tooling tickets are tracked against production readiness need dates
• Own the production readiness plan for critical tooling clusters and work center activations
• Cook up facility activation milestones into the overall production readiness timeline
• Coordinate across Senior Manager organizations to eliminate schedule conflicts, resource contention, and interface gaps before they become program risks
• Own the program risk register — identify, quantify, and track all production risks with mitigation plans and decision deadlines
• Escalate unresolved risks to the Director with clear options and recommendations
• Drive convergence across data streams between TARGET, ESTIMATED, and CURRENT state program data
• Partner with the Master Scheduler and Business Operations Planning team to ensure MRP demand signals are accurate and up to date
• Own the PFEP (Plan-For-Every-Part) process — ensure the process is established and institutionalized ahead of key production purchase orders
• Manage the rate-break PO sequence for GS2.0 and GS2.1 vehicle builds, ensuring each PO is supported by a validated demand signal and design freeze confirmation

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline
• 10+ years of experience in program or project management within aerospace, defense, or advanced manufacturing
• Demonstrated experience managing complex, multi-disciplinary programs from facility activation through first article production
• Proven ability to build and maintain Integrated Master Schedules (IMS) with large milestone sets across multiple functional organizations
• Experience owning high-consequence decision gates — capital expenditure approvals, supplier selections, design freezes — in a fast-paced program environment
• Strong technical fluency — ability to read and interpret engineering ICDs, tooling specifications, facility drawings, and production rate analyses without requiring translation
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; ability to synthesize complex technical and schedule data into crisp executive decision packages

Qualifications

• PMP, PgMP, or equivalent program management certification
• Experience in launch vehicle, spacecraft, or large-scale aerospace structure manufacturing programs
• Familiarity with Blue Origin's MRP/ERP systems in a production planning context
• Background in greenfield facility activation or new production line stand-up
• Familiarity with ITS (Integrated Tooling System), JIRA, or equivalent engineering ticket management systems used for tooling and milestone tracking
• Familiarity with friction stir welding, large-diameter metallic structure fabrication, or cryogenic propellant system manufacturing

Skills

• Program management
• Project management
• Integrated Master Schedule (IMS)
• Decision gate management
• Risk management
• Production readiness planning
• Tooling management
• Production system integrity
• MRP and ERP systems
• Manufacturing operations
• Facility activation
• Tooling and milestone tracking
• Friction stir welding
• Large-diameter metallic structure fabrication
• Cryogenic propellant system manufacturing

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
• Paid Time Off
• Company-paid holidays
• Other benefits and bonuses based on the company's intent to reward individual contributions and enable them to share in the company's results, or other factors at the company's sole discretion

Pay

TBD

Schedule

A shift