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Blue Origin · 5 hours ago

Valve Systems Engineering Manager - Lunar Permanence

Greater Seattle Area

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$151K/yr - $211K/yr

5+ years exp

Blue Origin is working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems. The Valve Systems Engineering Manager will lead a team of Valve engineers to define, develop, and deliver spacecraft valve components, while managing project execution and fostering a positive team culture.

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 such as Operations and Supply Chain to drive product cost and meet delivery objectives

Track and manage your team execution, and both unit product 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

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

Engage with the team on technical decisions regarding valve design, development, build, and test

Develop and oversee the technical plan, ensuring it aligns to both negotiated customer requirements 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

Qualification

Aerospace component designValve engineeringProject managementTeam leadershipCryogenic systemsAgile methodologiesRisk managementANSYSContinuous improvementCommunication

Required

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

5+ years of experience in a relevant engineering field, with significant experience in aerospace propulsion 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

Hands-on experience with the development lifecycle of valve components

Experience with working on Cryogenic and/or Environmental Control and Life Support (ECLS) components used on deep space vehicles