Senior Project Manager

BLUE ORIGIN

Senior Project Manager ensuring delivery of spacecraft thermal control systems for Blue Origin's Lunar Permanence unit. Collaborating with NASA and managing key project metrics in a fast-paced environment.

Posted 7/21/2026full-timeLos Angeles • California, Colorado, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $121,023 - $169,432 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive project management expertise in mechanical engineering and hardware development, with a strong focus on budget management, scheduling, and cross-functional team coordination. Proficient in utilizing project management tools and agile concepts to drive technical efforts and performance metrics.

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Project Management ExperienceBudget ManagementAgile ConceptsMS ProjectJira

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Hard Skills

Project ManagementLogic-Linked SchedulingConfiguration ManagementTechnical Performance MetricsMaterial Requirements Planning

Soft Skills

Excellent Written CommunicationExcellent Oral Communication

Tools & Technologies

MS ProjectP6 PrimaveraJira

Industry Keywords

Mechanical EngineeringHardware DevelopmentProgram PlanningCost ManagementSchedule Management

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Work with team leadership and support the development of robust plans of product deliveries and lead tracking of key operating metrics - including technical progress, cost, and schedule.
Identify and define problem statements and have enough experience to build and support a realistic project schedule.
Understand critical path and variance drivers and work to reconcile.
Support management of budget across all control points including driving estimate to complete assessments.
Coordinate the efforts across the product team comprised of engineering, program planning & control, supply chain, manufacturing/production engineering, facilities, production, tooling, quality, and test.
Support purchase orders, contracts, and service level work agreements aligned with program resources.
Understand and drive linkage between Material Requirements Planning system and IMS.
Support planning of technical efforts via agile concepts leveraging company tools.
Enable and maintain regular business rhythm, action tracking, and consolidate information for effective decision making, including maintaining and routinely reporting performance to plan on schedule, resources, program/product cost, and technical performance metrics for program reviews.
Support management of wiki space that enables team to have efficient reference to key information.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of project management experience related to mechanical engineering or hardware development.
Minimum of a B.S. degree in engineering, business, or technical.
Expertise with Project Management Tools such as MS Project, P6 Primavera or similar.
Experience with IMP/IMS and configuration management.
Experience with logic-linked scheduling.
Experience with Jira.
Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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%
Education Support Program
Stock Options for all regular employees (working at least 20 hours/week)
Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours
Up to 14 company-paid holidays.