Technical Project Manager, Software Engineering - Lunar Permanence

$106,260 - $162,288/Yr

Blue Origin - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Mid Level

Seattle, WA

Transportation Equipment Manufacturing

About the position

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 dedication 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. We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required! As part of a diverse and hardworking team of engineers, you ensure that software gets delivered on time to meet our commitments for the Lunar Permanence organization. You will enable successful delivery of software products by estimating, scheduling, and supervising progress on the program. Working with program management, you will help to coordinate deliveries among flight software groups and ensure that launch dates can be met. Attention to detail will be required to ensure that safety-critical software systems are developed according to program schedules. In order to also help ensure that the software group has staff and tools to perform their job, you will be helping to lead contracts and purchase orders. You will work directly with NASA and our National Team Partners as part of the Human Landing System (HLS) Sustaining Lunar Development (SLD) program. You will play a key role in developing the Lunar Permanence system that will return humans to the Moon and extend human presence permanently beyond the bounds of Earth.

Responsibilities

• Develop robust plans of product deliveries and lead tracking of key operating metrics - including technical, cost, schedule, and risk.
• Identify and define problem statements and have enough experience to build a realistic project schedule.
• May have a budget assigned and has authority to purchase based on an approved budget.
• Work with technical leads to define program scope to create program plans.
• Work with program management toward long-range objectives without appreciable direction and resolve technical objectives of assignments to develop approaches to solutions.
• Provides regular status updates and works to resolve project discrepancies (schedule, budget, resources, etc.).
• Engage with developers on significant issues sufficiently to be able to report to senior leadership.
• In partnership with Responsible Engineers (RE) and Team Leads own the technical success of product development.
• Help run contracts and produce statements of work.

Requirements

• 5+ years of project management experience related to software development.
• Experience with Project Management Tools such as MS Project, P6 Primavera or similar.
• Minimum of a B.S. degree in engineering or another technical field.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• 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.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with NPR 7150.2D and safety critical applications.
• Program Management Professional (PMP) certification.
• Earned Value Management System (EVMS) experience.
• Experience with critical path scheduling, IMP/IMS, risk management, requirements management and Cost Account Management such as EVM.
• Familiar with agile project management.
• Experience with Jira.
• Experience automating schedule health evaluations and continuously improving schedules.
• Experience managing subcontracts, crafting statements of work.

Benefits

• Paid parental leave
• Paid holidays
• Disability insurance
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Life insurance