Program Planning & Control - Scheduling Specialist

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 specialists and accomplished experts in Program Planning & Controls (PP&C), you will execute schedule management for various spaceflight systems. Partnered with Blue’s Integrated Product Teams (IPTs), there are multiple facets to your support of our spaceflight systems.

You will be responsible for supporting the creation of integrated cost and schedule baselines in Primavera P6 and Deltek Cobra, which will be used to execute our projects. This will require clear communication and strong organizational skills as you solicit inputs on requirements and dependencies across your assigned IPTs. Establishing these plans will involve supporting the development of Work Breakdowns Structures, Integrated Master Schedules and the formation of detailed IPT-level schedules. This position will drive execution to these plans by coordinating status updates, collecting and inputting schedule performance, performing regular schedule forecast updates, and providing actionable schedule reporting. You will use schedule performance data to generate actionable metrics, key performance indictors, and schedule reporting artifacts to inform IPT leaders and influence future plan updates. A strong attention to detail and proactive analysis of schedule status and variances is needed to help advise future performance on our projects. This position requires you to implement effective change management to account for approved scope changes, as well as actively managing updates that support program estimate to completes (ETC) and Estimate at Complete (EACs) exercises. As part of the PP&C functional team, you will also support (or lead!) company-level initiatives aimed at driving consistency in schedule and cost processes, tools, and reporting across business units to drive operational maturity. Reporting to the PP&C Sr. Manager of your program and utilizing your experience in analysis, exemplary communication, and high attention to detail and accuracy, you will work to increase the speed and efficiency of our programs by supporting the timely delivery, quality and transparency of schedule data to support program stakeholders including IPT leaders and Program Managers.

We are looking for specialists who will apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!

Blue is seeking multiple applicants, from emerging and mid-career professionals to established subject matter experts, to add to our growing PP&C teams supporting each of Blue’s business units at our Kent, WA location.

Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree in business, finance, engineering, project management or other highly analytical field
• Broad/deep scheduling and planning skillset - proficiency with resource-loaded schedules using Primavera (P6), Open Plan, MS Project, or other software
• Control account management including schedule baselining, reforecasting, variance analysis, and schedule-change management
• Experience with large project data sets, project planning efforts, and integrated schedules
• Proven ability to build, develop, and maintain and Integrated Master Plan and fully networked, resource-loaded Integrated Master Schedule (doing so from scratch for mid-career to senior positions)
• 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.

Desired:

• Experience establishing new programs
• Proven record of hands-on development and implementation of company-wide process improvements (mid-career to senior positions)
• IPMR customer deliverables on EVM-required contracts
• P6, Deltek, COBRA, Empower, or other cost/schedule integration and analysis tool experience
• Experience in budgeting, cost analysis, and financial program reporting
• Successful support of programs through DCMA/DCAA, joint site surveillance, or other government audits
• Proposal support including pricing for bids requiring certified pricing
• MBA, or Project Management certification (PMP/Certified Project Manager)