Blue Origin

Director - Vertical Integration

Blue Origin$203K — $284K *
Aerospace & Defense
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Senior executive level communication skills
  • Proven success in delivering business cases and project plans on schedule
  • Experience in integrating manufacturing projects within industrial settings
  • Ability to excel in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment
  • 7+ years of cross-functional collaboration experience
  • 7+ years of program or project management experience
  • Strong background in defining requirements and utilizing data for improvements
  • Advanced Microsoft Office proficiency
  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, technology, or supply chain, or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical program managers to advance Vertical Integration initiatives
  • Oversee planning and readiness for Vertical Integration across Blue Operations
  • Manage the Vertical Integration roadmap for the company
  • Communicate budget, schedule, and rate readiness to executives
  • Collaborate with procurement, manufacturing, and engineering teams on in-sourcing plans
  • Ensure alignment of in-sourcing initiatives with strategic company goals

Benefits

  • Relocation assistance provided
  • Travel required up to 15% of the time
Full Job Description

Application close date:

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed.

This role is part of Blue Origin Operations, which is comprised of Integrated Supply Chain, Test Operations, Safety, Quality, and Mission Assurance. This includes Manufacturing and Supply Chain support across all Blue Origin facilities.

We are a  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 require your commitment and detailed attention toward 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.

Special Mentions:

  • Relocation provided

  • Travel expected up to 15% of the time

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

  • Lead a team of technical program managers responsible for driving Vertical Integration initiatives from idea or demand generation, business case approval, and through final commissioning

  • Primary focal across all of Blue Operations leading planning and readiness for Vertical Integration across the enterprise including cross-Business Unit alignment

  • Manage the company Vertical Integration roadmap

  • Develop and communicate schedule, budget, and rate readiness adherence to senior executive and peers

  • Engage with make/buy, direct procurement, manufacturing and operations, and design engineering to drive in-sourcing plans to completion on-time to support low and high rate production

  • Ensure review of in-source initiatives to ensure they align with company strategic goals and financial benefit ensuring positive return on investment

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Senior executive level communication

  • Demonstrated capability to deliver successful business cases and project plans with urgency

  • Demonstrated experience integrating projects and programs that in-source manufacturing capability in a manufacturing or industrial industry

  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment involving ambiguity and high rates of change

  • 7+ years of working cross-functionally with technical and non-technical teams experience

  • 7+ years of program or project management experience

  • Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

  • Advanced Microsoft Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, technology, or supply chain, or equivalent work experience


Compensation Range for:

WA applicants is $203,165.00 - $284,430.30

Other site ranges may differ

Culture Statement

Don’t meet all desired requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single desired qualification. At Blue Origin, we are dedicated to building an authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every desired qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Export Control Regulations

Applicants for employment at Blue Origin must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e. current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

About Blue Origin

Blue Origin is an aerospace company that develops rockets and spacecraft for commercial and government customers. The company's products include the New Shepard suborbital vehicle and the New Glenn orbital rocket. Blue Origin was founded in 2000 by Jeff Bezos and is headquartered in Kent, Washington.
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3,000 employees
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Founded
2000

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