BE-4 Upgrades Integration Coordinator

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At Blue Origin we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. Were working to develop reusable safe and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety collaboration and inclusion. Join our team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight!

The BE-4 Engines Upgrades Program is a fast paced effort that provides increment definition design development and qualification of configurations that improve the performance mass life producibility and maintainability of the Engine System for the production programs. As part of a small hard-working and accomplished team of leaders you will become an integral part of the Engine Upgrades Program team.

This role is the Upgrades Integration Coordinator. In this role you will be an Individual Contributor supporting the PM and working in conjunction with the Engine Upgrades staff program Product Teams Engine Systems and responsible enterprise tool owners.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

The Engines Upgrades Program is seeking an Individual Contributor for the Upgrades Integration Coordination role which will focus on two primary areas:

The role will be the integrated real time status and visualization tools leader for BE-4 and subsequent configurations with responsibility to assess the current state of the program integrated visibility tools determine future growth objectives establish a roadmap for an architecture that integrates independent tools commonly used on the program including Jira/ITS Windchill LOB Jama Jules etc and define the user interfaces such as Smartsheets. The purpose of this activity is to increase real time visibility of data being pulled from multiple systems originating from Operations Procurement Engineering and Program to increase the efficiency of decision making across all areas of the program. The role will be responsible for establishing a program plan for evolving the capabilities in areas most critical to the BE-4 program. The individual will be responsible for leading coordinated execution with multiple enterprise tool owners monitoring progress and leading execution adoption. This is intended to be an incremental improvement process where additional capabilities are identified developed and brought on-line with a continuous improvement focus.

The second area of emphasis will be coordinating multiple IPT impacting changes with generation and tracking of new improvement ideas through ideation change approval development testing qualification and implementation. The upgrades coordinator will be responsible for coordinating across the teams for rapid decision making and management of the improvements such as technical and cost performance measures interface impacts integrated qualification approach and implementation plans. Integration with various IPTs across the engine system will be required to assure timely progress of improvement development qualification and implementation will support program goals. This will be a dynamic role requiring interface and coordination with multiple organizations within Blue Origin.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Passion for Blue Origins mission: Millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of earth.
• Minimum of a B.S. degree in Engineering or Project Management related field
• 8 years experience (or 6 years with 2 year credit for advanced degree) in complex hardware such as liquid rocket engine military/commercial turbine engine spacecraft launch vehicle or aircraft systems project management experience
• Established professional expertise in Project Management
• Proven experience leading and running teams on fast-paced hardware development projects
• Experienced at collecting and synthesizing quantitative and qualitative information from multiple stakeholders and translating data into project requirements scoping and planning documents and ultimately build ready for use and fit for purpose tools and processes
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Formal project management training or certification
• MBA or MS Engineering degree
• Experience across multiple portions of the product life cycle
• Experience with Windchill Smartsheets and JIRA
• Experience with the BE-4 engine system

Compensation Range for:

Other site ranges may differ

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• Benefits include: Medical dental vision basic and supplemental life insurance paid parental leave short and long-term disability 401(k) with a company match of up to 5% and an Education Support Program.

• Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours and up to 14 company-paid holidays.

• Discretionary bonus: Bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results.

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