Spaceflight Project Controls Data Analytics Lead

Blue Origin; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 131,000 - 183,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking a data/controls engineer to connect schedules, costs, and labor with procurement and engineering data. You will own the controls data model, build pipelines, and develop dashboards, forecasting and AI agents that reduce manual status work.

You will work with PEs and technical leads to model design releases, BOMs, and engineering changes, ensuring data quality and traceability across PLM, ERP, and scheduling systems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in project controls, BI or data analytics with at least 2 years building data products/tools.
• Strong SQL and Python; experience building production data pipelines.
• Data modeling experience (star schemas, snapshots, slowly changing dimensions).
• BI tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
• Working knowledge of CPM scheduling, baselines, change control, cost and EVM metrics.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs/AI tooling and version control (Git).
• U.S. citizen or eligible for U.S. employment.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement the controls toolchain architecture and data foundations.
• Gather needs from PE, finance, and leadership and translate into data products and tool requirements.
• Map data sources across PLM, ERP, MRP, Jira, scheduling, and analytics platform; document data flows.
• Test tools against requirements; maintain code, data models and AI agents under version control.
• Link design releases and engineering changes to schedule and cost data for traceability.
• Build forecasting, risk and Monte Carlo models; run schedule and cost risk analyses.
• Develop data pipelines joining schedule, cost, labor, procurement, and risk data into a governed dataset.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data pipelines

Power BI

Tableau

Git

Data modeling

CPM scheduling

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or technical field

Tools

Windchill

Jira

ITS

Change Orchestrator

Primavera P6

MS Project

Databricks

ERP

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking a data/controls engineer to connect schedules, costs, and labor with procurement and engineering data. You will own the controls data model, build pipelines, and develop dashboards, forecasting and AI agents that reduce manual status work.

You will work with PEs and technical leads to model design releases, BOMs, and engineering changes, ensuring data quality and traceability across PLM, ERP, and scheduling systems.