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Blue Origin LLC Senior Manager Engines, Propulsion & Fluid Systems - New Glenn in Seattle, Washington
At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We're working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our diverse team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight! We are a diverse team of collaborators, doers, and problem- solvers who are relentlessly committed to a culture of safety. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable space flight. Join us in lowering the cost of access to space and enabling Blue Origin's vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit Earth. This role supports the development and operations of New Glenn, a single-configuration, heavy-liftorbital launch vehicle capable ofroutinelycarrying people and payloads to low-Earth orbit, geostationary transfer orbit, cislunar,and beyond.Its first stage is fully reusable, and the vehicle was designedfrom the beginningto be human-capable. As part of a small, passionate, and accomplished team of experts, you will direct and manage an integrated product team of launch vehicle Umbilical System to support current and future New Glenn program needs. You will set team technical direction requiring a wide application of advanced engineering principles, theories, and concepts through new product development, introduction and launch operation. Additionally, you will manage associated schedules, budgets, and forecasts, along with building the team and managing personnel and performance. In this role, you will be the leader of the team with impact on all aspects of launch vehicle fluid systems engineering. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your dedicated commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable spaceflight. We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and dedication to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required! Responsibilities: Provide technical and personnel leadership to subsystem development organization within New Glenn Business Unit. Lead Integrated Product Team on new product development and introduction of New Glenn insourced components for Stage I and Stage II Umbilical System. Responsible for employee life cycle including performance management, absence and timekeeping approval, task/project management, training, and career development. Build and maintain umbilical component design life cycle scope, basis of estimate and schedules, support annual operating plan budgets and staffing requirements to include expense and procurement approvals. Establish, manage, and report on component and development metrics including scope, development progress, schedule, cost, risk. Championing technical processes, best practices, and tool development around the focused area of the umbilical component development design life cycle. Lead team to develop and document component design for downstream integration with manufacturing processes, quality processes, and operations elements to include configuration management, verification planning, and test requirements generation. Active support in production, assembly, integration, functional checkout, and operations. Coach, mentor and technically assist other engineers and team members. Champion continuous improvement in safety, quality, cost and performance of product and project. Respond to all facets of customer's vehicle operability questions on launch vehicle umbilical components during all life-cycle phases of design, development, test, and launch. Travel as vital to facilitate efficient work and teamwork. Minimum Qualifications: 8+ years of demonstrated experience in project man