Space Systems Engineering Operations Lead

Blue Origin LLC; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) with company match

Paid time off & holidays

Job summary

Blue Origin seeks an Engineering Operations Lead embedded in the Lunar Transfer Stage System Test team. The role focuses on planning, tracking, and executing test campaigns with rigor and efficiency to support safe and repeatable spaceflight.

You will translate engineering work into structured plans, keep leadership informed of progress, risks, and schedule health, and collaborate across internal teams and customers to ensure readiness and deliverables.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in engineering, project management, or a related technical discipline.
• 2+ years of experience in project coordination, engineering operations, or program support in a technical environment.
• Experience using project management tools such as MS Project, Jira, or similar scheduling and tracking tools.
• Ability to build and maintain project schedules and track progress against milestones.
• Strong written and oral communication skills, with the ability to prepare clear status updates for technical and program leadership.
• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Responsibilities

• Support the development and maintenance of integrated test campaign schedules, tracking progress against key milestones and flagging risks and variances to leadership
• Assist technical leads in translating engineering scope into structured work plans, including task identification, sequencing, and resource loading
• Support week-to-week planning and execution tracking for the system test team, helping maintain alignment between program‑level plans and day‑to‑day operations
• Prepare and communicate regular status updates on cost, schedule, and risk to engineering and program management
• Identify and elevate schedule conflicts, resource constraints, and execution gaps, and support development of recovery plans
• Coordinate across internal teams and customers to support test readiness activities, review preparation, and deliverable tracking
• Support risk and opportunity identification and help maintain the team’s risk register
• Assist in the development of statements of work and support coordination of external services as needed

Skills

Project coordination

Engineering operations

Jira

MS Project

Communication

Education

BS or MS in engineering

Tools

Jira

MS Project

Job description

Blue Origin seeks an Engineering Operations Lead embedded in the Lunar Transfer Stage System Test team. The role focuses on planning, tracking, and executing test campaigns with rigor and efficiency to support safe and repeatable spaceflight.

You will translate engineering work into structured plans, keep leadership informed of progress, risks, and schedule health, and collaborate across internal teams and customers to ensure readiness and deliverables.