Sr. IPT Lead (R39855)

This role is part of the Blue Origin Engines business unit, where our focus is the design, development, manufacturing, and testing of engines and propulsion systems. Built for multiple uses, our family of engines is powering the next generation of rockets for commercial, civil, national security, and human spaceflight.

As part of a small, passionate and accomplished team of experts, you will guide the Valves Integrated Product Team (IPT) for BE-4. This engine is being developed to support both the ULA Vulcan launch vehicle as well as enable affordable, low-cost access to space powering the New Glenn reusable launch vehicle. This role will lead the overall scope, schedule, budget and risk elements required to support development & production, manage upgrades/ improvements, ensure certification for flight and support our commercial operations. The hardware scope of this role includes all the engine valves required for starting, stopping, throttling and controlling the engine and the Spark Torch Igniter (STI) systems. You will be actively involved in aspects of customer interactions, design, test, certification, flight, and continuous improvement efforts for this hardware! This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your dedicated commitment and detailed attention towards cost-managed, safe and repeatable spaceflight!

Responsibilities:

• Report to the Program Manager and be accountable for program planning, execution, and on-time/ on-budget delivery of products & supporting artifacts for your assigned product scope.
• Own the overall lifecycle of your assigned product scope from development through qualification/ rate production and successful commercial flight operations.
• Coordinate the efforts of your cross-functional integrated product team comprised of Engines engineering, program planning & control, supply chain, manufacturing/ production engineering, production, tooling, quality, component test, engine test.
• Establish and maintain regular business rhythm, consistent review products, 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 and company level reviews.
• Provide program constraints and guidance to your integrated product team derived from the Engines BU, customer contracts and statements-of-work, including headcount, affordability, schedule.
• Communicate status, critical paths, challenges, and recommended solutions. Provide escalation where additional support is needed to meet program and company goals.
• Lead overall scope completion for your IPT, including execution aligned with Blue processes or an approved tailored approach.
• Develop and support the maintenance of a resource loaded schedule.
• Track and manage your IPT budget, and both unit product cost/life cycle cost.
• 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.
• Support requirement decomposition and allocation, systems engineering, technical design, analysis, and verification/validation – including management of interfaces between customers and project technical efforts.
• Create the framework used to develop and monitor project metrics and drive collection of project data.
• Coordinate documented Non-Conformances (NCs), reports, drawing release, work orders, and test planning for your IPT.
• Facilitate support from Blue Origin Support Functions: Operations, Integrated Supply Chain (ISC), Test and Flight Ops (TFO), Safety and Mission Assurance (S&MA) and other support organization.

Qualifications:

• Desire to lead and manage small teams on fast-paced hardware and flight projects.
• 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 designing/developing/supporting complex engineered products.
• 2 years of project management experience.
• Experience with logic-linked scheduling.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated technical/programmatic expertise in spacecraft, launch vehicle, or aircraft development; including one or more of the following: spacecraft, launch vehicles, liquid rocket engines or components, engine installations, turbine engines, fluid systems/ tanks, and systems engineering.
• Desire to support customer, government contractor and internal Blue executive interaction.

Desired:

• Formal project management training or certification
• Experience with budget and Cost Account Management such as EVM.
• Experience with IMP/IMS, risk management, configuration management, requirements management processes.
• Experience across multiple portions of the product life cycle.
• Experience with human spaceflight or high-performance aircraft systems.
• Experience with Primavera (P6), DOORS, CREO, Windchill.