Senior Spaceflight Program Lead — Technical & Delivery

Blue Origin; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 237,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation Assistance provided

Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented 1

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking an experienced Program Manager to lead complex aerospace programs within the PMO. You will coordinate across engineering, finance, and operations to ensure deliverables, budgets, schedules, and risk are managed to meet contract and customer requirements.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years in aerospace program planning, DFARs familiarity, and a proven ability to lead cross‑functional teams in a structured environment. Top Secret clearance is preferred for select roles.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, management, or engineering or equivalent in years of experience.
• 8+ years of experience in program management and/or program planning in the aerospace industry.
• Experience working on Aerospace Development Programs and/or Space Systems.
• Strong understanding DFARs based contracts
• Experience in structured environments, especially establishing and maintaining a structured culture within a varied workforce and multifaceted work portfolio
• Strong motivation by an operations outlook and work ethics: tactical responsiveness, making important decisions fast, delivering results, having a bias for action
• Demonstrated expertise in the use of MS Project for labor loaded Integrated Schedules
• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships

Responsibilities

• Primary point of contact for execution and management of program deliverables, performance to plan, and completion of customer statement of work
• Manage contractual data requirements lists and deliveries; support mission unique scope definition and programmatic (scope, schedule, financial) baselining/budget management; responsible for customer relationship building and management (from pre‑solicitation through launch/delivery/ops), program staffing requests and team scope management, spend planning, risk management, cash flow
• Prioritize weekly and monthly tasking across multiple organizations and functions within the project; maintain cognizance of all project activities
• Lead financial performance of accounts held at the program level; oversee financial performance of accounts held by subsystem leads
• Implement business rhythm: organize, prepare for, and conduct staff meetings, operating reviews, monthly corporate reporting, and quarterly and annual planning cycles; generate and track action items
• Lead the Program Planning & Control, Finance, Procurement, Cost Engineering teams to establish program baselines, detailed planning, execution status, and recovery plans to variance
• Partner with supporting functional organizations (e.g., Finance, Legal, Supply Chain, Enterprise Technology) to assure continuous interfaces, smooth operations, and reconciliation of process standards, action items, and emergent issues across the project
• Represent the Business Unit/Product Line interests on proposal efforts in terms of scope, price vs cost, and resource allocation - single threaded leader responsible for program sign off (certifying) of proposal content

Skills

Program management

Leadership

Budget management

Risk management

Team coordination

MS Project

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, management, or engineering

8+ years of experience in program management

Tools

MS Project

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking an experienced Program Manager to lead complex aerospace programs within the PMO. You will coordinate across engineering, finance, and operations to ensure deliverables, budgets, schedules, and risk are managed to meet contract and customer requirements.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years in aerospace program planning, DFARs familiarity, and a proven ability to lead cross‑functional teams in a structured environment. Top Secret clearance is preferred for select roles.