Sr Manager of GS1 Operational Integrators

About

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.

This role supports the development and operations of New Glenn, a single-configuration, heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle capable of routinely carrying people and payloads to low-Earth orbit, geostationary transfer orbit, cislunar, and beyond. Its first stage is fully reusable, and the vehicle was designed from the beginning to be human-capable.

We are a team of collaborators, doers, and problem-solvers who are relentlessly committed to a safety-first culture. 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. In this role, you will share in the team's impact on all aspects of operational requirements, interfaces, and processes to achieve New Glenn program's mission to make human spaceflight accessible and affordable. As a Sr Manager of GS1 Operational Integrators, you will be involved in system safety evaluations, risk management, test planning, technical performance measurement, problem resolution, configuration and data management, and people management of your team members.

As part of a small, passionate, and accomplished team of experts, you will be responsible for creating a comprehensive operations approach for the New Glenn Stage 1 Reusable Launch Vehicle and working closely with the New Glenn Mission Operations team to ensure the system design is maintainable, serviceable, and conducive to safe, rapid, and repeatable operations. You will work across subsystems and support integrated solutions while making sure vehicle and maintenance operations are central design tenants. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your dedicated commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable spaceflight.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of launch vehicle operations integration engineers responsible for developing engineering operations requirements, establishing system redlines, authoring timeline/conops databooks, Engineering Operational Requirements (EORs), Maintenance Requirements (MRs), Launch Commit Criteria, Required Equipment List (REL), Catastrophic Command Evaluation, Health Reporting, Loss of Comms behavior; and working with flight software to ensure requirements are accurately translated into vehicle operations code.
• Author operations documents that define product testing requirements, operations lifecycle, maintenance requirements and critical performance/requirements interfaces across the system.
• Serve as primary subsystem engineering/technical POC for systems engineering and systems safety artifacts acting as an interface between design engineering and operations teams.
• Lead design integration trade studies considering vehicle operations through all phases the mission including pre-launch, boost, landing, and recovery.
• Document and manage critical performance, operational requirement and requirements interfaces across the system.
• Support development of integrated operational software, including those used for Built-In-Tests, Propellant Loading, and Terminal Count, Flight, Landing, and Post-Flight Recovery.
• Provide real-time support to integrated tests and launch operations.
• Review and approve operating requirements across all vehicle subsystems.
• Ensure consistency, accuracy, and appropriate integration of operating requirements into procedures, scripts, and displays used during vehicle operations.
• Coordinate and support Responsible Engineers with content generation.
• Establish operating standards.
• Manage need-dates.
• Provide vehicle operational feedback to subsystem design.
• Support procedure development to accurately incorporate operating requirements.
• Review and approve procedures, scripts, and displays used during vehicle operations.
• Assess, identify, and lead any fixes to gaps in the concept of vehicle operations.
• Work with Mission Operations and design engineering to ensure development of the launch vehicle maintainability, and serviceability throughout all phases of the value chain including production operations, mission operations, and New Glenn first stage recovery/refurb teams.
• Provide program support to the chief engineer office for delegated engineering change requests, design review actions, performance metrics/assessment and technical risk management.
• Work across engineering and business functions to execute complex trades and analyses to support programmatic decision making.
• Document and manage the product operations through the product testing and vehicle operations lifecycle.
• Document and manage critical performance and requirements interfaces across the system.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a B.S. degree in Engineering or related technical discipline.
• B.S. Business, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Operations Management, or similar.
• 8+ years of proven Systems Engineering, analysis, operations, or component testing on launch vehicles, spacecraft, or other highly regulated industry.
• Highly knowledgeable of systems engineering practices, integration processes, and mission/safety critical systems.
• Self-directed and able to balance several tasks at one time.
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams and mentor junior systems engineers.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; strength in teaming and collaboration in a fast-paced work environment, self-starter.

Desired

• Master's Degree (M.S., M.E.) or higher in Systems Engineering or related field.
• Familiarity with launch vehicle or space vehicle design and operations.
• Experience with anomaly investigations.
• Familiarity with Primavera P6 or other scheduling software.
• Ability to operate, make decisions, lead, and make forward progress in ambiguous environments.
• 4+ years of managing direct reports and projects or programs.
• Hands-on experience maintaining/servicing launch vehicles.
• Strong systems engineering background.
• Strong systems test background.
• Strong systems analysis background.
• Ability to lead a team to produce results with partially defined requirements and changing criteria.

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.

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%, and an Education Support Program.
• Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.
• Dependent on role type and job level, employees may be eligible for 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. Bonus amounts and eligibility are not guaranteed and subject to change and cancellation. Please check with your recruiter for more details.