Blue Origin · 2 days ago
SLD Thermal System Engineering Operations Lead
Los Angeles, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$64K/yr - $89K/yr
5+ years expBlue Origin is working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems. The SLD Thermal System Engineering Operations Lead will be responsible for ensuring the development of the spacecraft thermal control system is delivered on time and on budget, while coordinating efforts across various teams and managing budgets and schedules.
AerospaceManufacturingNational SecurityRenewable Energy
No H1B
U.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Work with team leadership and support the development of robust plans of product deliveries and lead tracking of key operating metrics - including technical progress, cost, and schedule
Identify and define problem statements and have enough experience to build and support a realistic project schedule
Understand critical path and variance drivers and work to reconcile
Support management of budget across all control points including driving estimate to complete assessments
Coordinate the efforts across the product team comprised of engineering, program planning & control, supply chain, manufacturing/ production engineering, facilities, production, tooling, quality, and test
Support purchase orders, contracts, and service level work agreements aligned with program resources
Understand and drive linkage between Material Requirements Planning system and IMS
Support planning of technical efforts via agile concepts leveraging company tools
Enable and maintain regular business rhythm, action tracking, and consolidate information for effective decision making, including maintaining and routinely reporting performance to plan on schedule, resources, program/ product cost, and technical performance metrics for program reviews
Support management of wiki space that enables team to have efficient reference to key information
Qualification
Required
5+ years of project management experience related to mechanical engineering or hardware development
Expertise with Project Management Tools such as MS Project, P6 Primavera or similar
Experience with IMP/IMS and configuration management
Experience with logic-linked scheduling
Experience with Jira
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Preferred
Formal project management training or certification
Prior support of a program for spaceflight hardware with an understanding of the hardware development cycle
Experience with P6 Primavera
Experience automating schedule health evaluations and continuously improving schedules
Experience with budget and Cost Account Management such as EVM or similar principles
Experience managing subcontracts, crafting statements of work
Expertise with Jira including building dashboards and managing/planning engineering efforts through Jira tools
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
Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.
Company
Blue Origin
Blue Origin is an aerospace company that focuses on lowering the cost of spaceflight and helping to explore the solar system.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$185.35MKey Investors
NASAUnited States Space Force
2024-02-20Secondary Market
2024-01-24Undisclosed· $18M
2021-12-03Grant· $130M
Leadership Team
David Limp
Chief Executive Officer
Tim Collins
Vice President, Global Supply Chain
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