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Blue Origin LLC Technical Project Manager in Seattle, Washington
At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We're working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our diverse team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight! We are a diverse team of collaborators, doers, and problem-solvers who are relentlessly committed to a culture of safety. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable space flight. Join us in lowering the cost of access to space and enabling Blue Origin's vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit Earth! As part of a hardworking team of diverse engineers, you will work at the intersection of program management, engineering, supply chain, test, manufacturing, and quality organizations, supporting team effectiveness and coordination. Assignments can range from supporting procurement activities, to coordinating component development & testing, and supporting vehicle subsystem integration activities. In early project phases you may support the definition and tracking of project schedule to achieve overall program goals and component requirements. In later phases, you will help coordinate internal and external stakeholders, oversee changes, and help track the resolution to unexpected problems in support of vehicle or subsystem builds, subsequent integration into test facilities and launch vehicles, and test activities. As a Project Engineer within the Lunar MK2 Vehicle Team, you will support a passionate team of contributors and experts across multiple IPT's. In this role, you will support, and track activities tied to the development and manufacturing of vehicle components. You will contribute to tracking design, manufacturing, test and production of various devices and assemblies, and help define and refine best practices to increase the efficiency of our project execution and manufacturing approaches and processes. In addition, you may interface with vendors or small teams to set requirements and track supplier developments for procuring hardware, tooling, and assemblies, including coordinating with vendors and Blue through technical issues. As a Project Engineer, you must enjoy solving communication and organizational problems, earning trust, and improving the overall performance of all teams involved. We are seeking a self-motivated and highly organized individuals with technical backgrounds who can work with some direction to drive execution of engineering integration activities. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your dedicated commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable spaceflight. Responsibilities include but are not limited to: Create and manage a line of balance for hardware and key equipment/tooling to support upcoming builds and tests Defining control points and managing integration of these points within the engineering bill of materials and the various support organizations Ensuring adequate demand planning processes are established and appropriate signals are communicated to support organizations In early project phases, you may partner with IPTL's to support the definition of the project schedule to achieve overall program goals and component requirements In early project phases, with the oversight of your Integrated Project Team Lead (IPTL), you may support the definition of the project schedule to achieve overall program goals and component requirements Coordinate the assessment of programmatic impact given engineering change requests Coordinate and track engineering changes with upstream and downstream stakeholders Oversee/ track recovery strategies when non-conformances, issues, or other escapes are identified Coordi