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Blue Origin · 13 hours ago

Senior Manager, Rocket Engine Avionics & Control Systems

Greater Seattle Area

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$151K/yr - $211K/yr

8+ years exp

Blue Origin is focused on developing reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems. The Senior Manager for Rocket Engine Avionics & Control Systems will lead a team of engineers to ensure successful delivery of the control subsystem of the engine, manage project execution, and oversee the technical quality of the control subsystem.

AerospaceManufacturingNational SecurityRenewable Energy

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Manage your project scope by ensuring scrappy and cost-effective execution while maintaining a tight grip on the project deliverables needed to meet program objectives

Identify and manage technical and programmatic risks/opportunities. This includes technical, scope (i.e., cost and schedule), asset and safety risks and opportunities specific to program and project execution. Risk management includes identifying, documenting, communicating, developing mitigation plans and collaborating with your peers & program leaders to drive outcomes to program acceptable levels

Coordinate and partner with Enterprise functions to drive subsystem cost and meet delivery objectives

Track and manage your team execution, and subsystem cost/life cycle cost

Create the framework used to develop and drive collection of project data and use this data to inform & monitor key project metrics

Develop and oversee the technical plan, ensuring it aligns to both negotiated customer requirements (vehicle and engine) and internal design criteria

Own the overall lifecycle of your assigned product scope from development through qualification/ rate production and successful cost-optimized commercial flight operations

Manage interdisciplinary engineering tasks for overall system success

Ensure the quality of engineering outputs, providing technical direction and guidance to the team

Support requirement decomposition and allocation, systems engineering, technical design, analysis, and verification/validation – including strong management and bi-directional alignment of interfaces between customers and project technical efforts

Oversee the full lifecycle of your employees including talent acquisition, employee development, and when needed, performance management

Foster an environment of continuous growth and learning, ensuring compliance with HR processes and policies

Qualification

Avionics systemsControl systemsProject managementEngineering leadershipRisk managementRequirements managementContinuous improvementCommunicationTeam managementCollaborationProblem solving

Required

Proven track record of leading and managing teams to deliver complex engineering subsystem or products

Minimum of a B.S. degree in Engineering or technical field, or in lieu of a technical degree, must show significant demonstrated experience leading teams designing/ developing complex engineered products

8+ years of experience in a relevant engineering field, with significant experience in avionics systems and/or control systems

2+ years of project management experience

Basic knowledge across relevant engineering disciplines, including requirements negotiation, design, analysis, manufacturing, testing and vehicle integration

Strong communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate across all levels of the organization