Senior Test Ops Maintenance Planner with Stock Options

Blue Origin; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 115,256 - 161,358; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Paid parental leave

401(k) with company match

Job summary

Blue Origin seeks a seasoned Maintenance Planning professional to lead production control for Test Operations Maintenance in Huntsville, AL. You will plan, schedule, and coordinate preventative and reactive maintenance, ensuring alignment with test campaigns and CPV demands across multiple sites.

The role emphasizes capacity planning, issue surfacing, and stakeholder collaboration with technicians and engineers to sustain critical test infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional schedule management, production control, or maintenance planning experience.

Responsibilities

• Help build and define the production control function within Test Operations Maintenance, establishing standard work, processes, and tools that scale across the team.
• Independently plan, schedule, and coordinate maintenance activities to align with test campaign schedules, incorporating CPV and valve shop demand into the broader plan.
• Build integrated maintenance schedules that balance capacity against demand, surfacing issues and trade-offs to leadership while owning capacity planning and resource forecasting.
• Manage Work Order lifecycle across all business systems, and track and report key maintenance metrics to guide continuous improvement.
• Coordinate parts, materials, and specialty tooling, collaborating with procurement and supply chain to get ahead of shortages and long‑lead items.
• Identify constraints in the maintenance flow and lead problem‑solving, including anomaly investigations and root cause analyses, to develop recovery plans.
• Serve as the primary scheduling and planning point of contact between Test Operations Maintenance and internal customers.
• Mentor junior production control personnel and improve planning tools and ERP/MRP/CMMS workflows as the function grows.

Skills

Schedule management

Production control

Maintenance planning

ERP/CMMS

Communication skills

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in operations management or related

Tools

Costpoint

MS Project

Smartsheet

Power BI

Tableau

Databricks

AI tools

Job description

Blue Origin seeks a seasoned Maintenance Planning professional to lead production control for Test Operations Maintenance in Huntsville, AL. You will plan, schedule, and coordinate preventative and reactive maintenance, ensuring alignment with test campaigns and CPV demands across multiple sites.

The role emphasizes capacity planning, issue surfacing, and stakeholder collaboration with technicians and engineers to sustain critical test infrastructure.