Test and Integration Lead – Component & Qualification
| Company | Blue Origin |
|---|---|
| Location | Merritt Island, FL, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- B.S. degree in aerospace, mechanical, industrial, or manufacturing engineering; physics; or other major requiring engineering or manufacturing core courses.
- Minimum of 5-7 years of experience in designing/developing/supporting complex engineered products.
- 2+ years of project management or system integration experience.
- Enjoy leading and participating in highly collaborative efforts and a desire to lead and manage small teams on a fast-paced hardware and flight projects.
- Demonstrated ability building trusting and effective working relationships that improve team performance and deliver results.
- Demonstrated experience with core project management skills including with logic-linked scheduling, budget and schedule variance tracking and reporting project status to leadership.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with experience with communicating with teams of varying sizes.
- 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
- Direct work within operations to support rocket component and qualification activities.
- Liaise and facilitate the efforts of a broad multi-functional group including design, manufacturing, and test engineering as well as supply chain and other operations teams to enable the successful integration of the rocket.
- Broad accountability to make informed decisions regarding build and test sequence and schedule to optimize efficiency and meet project timelines.
- Triage and provide engineering direction on off nominal and discrepant situations to enable Production Test to move forward.
- Take ownership of the entire test flow, including reporting progress and challenges to leadership, recovery planning and continuous improvement of execution.
- Manage optimization activities to decrease unit lead time and cost to radically reduce the cost of access to space.
- Mitigate risks and manage impacts to ensure project objectives are achieved.
- Collaborate with multiple stakeholders to deliver the required verification artifacts at completion of build to successfully transfer the rocket into operational service.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with budget and Cost Account Management such as EVM.
- Experience with risk management, configuration management, requirements management.
- Experience in Manufacturing Engineering, Production Engineering or similar experience working in vehicle integration and test.
- Experience across multiple portions of the product life cycle.
- Experience with human spaceflight or high-performance systems.