Senior Spaceflight Program Manager

Blue Origin LLC; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 161,000 - 237,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation Assistance provided

Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking an experienced Program Manager in Seattle to lead execution of complex aerospace programs within the PMO. You will coordinate across engineering, finance, legal, and supply chain to baselining scope, schedule, budget, and risk, ensuring timely, within-cost delivery of demanding initiatives across multiple teams.

The role requires 8+ years in aerospace program management, DFARs contract knowledge, and a proven ability to drive recovery plans when needed.

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

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

Aerospace industry

MS Project

Integrated schedules

Risk management

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, management, or engineering

Tools

MS Project

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking an experienced Program Manager in Seattle to lead execution of complex aerospace programs within the PMO. You will coordinate across engineering, finance, legal, and supply chain to baselining scope, schedule, budget, and risk, ensuring timely, within-cost delivery of demanding initiatives across multiple teams.

The role requires 8+ years in aerospace program management, DFARs contract knowledge, and a proven ability to drive recovery plans when needed.