Sr Manager – Structural Engineering

Sr Manager – Structural Engineering

As Senior Manager of the structures team, you will lead a high-performing group of structural engineers designing, developing, and delivering the ground structures and GSE (Ground Support Equipment) that support Blue Origin's launch operations at LC-36 (Cape Canaveral, FL). You will balance hands-on technical leadership with people management, setting the technical direction for the team, developing your engineers, driving execution, and serving as the primary interface between your team and program leadership.

This is a technical management role and is not a purely administrative management position. You will be expected to maintain meaningful technical engagement with the work your team produces, provide engineering judgment on critical design decisions, and be a credible technical voice with stakeholders across the program.

Responsibilities:

• Technical Leadership • Serve as technical authority for the structures team, provide engineering guidance and judgment on complex design challenges.
• Establish and maintain structural design standards, analysis methods, and best practices for the team.
• Review and approve critical design packages, FEA analyses, load path and connection design calculations, and engineering drawings.
• Drive design reviews at key project milestones; ensure all team deliverables comply with applicable codes, standards, and specifications.
• People Leadership • Directly manage a team of structural engineers supporting large steel structures and GSE design.
• Recruit, hire, and onboard engineering talent, actively build and maintain a strong team pipeline.
• Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations, identify skill gaps and develop targeted growth plans for all direct reports.
• Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and safety-first team culture consistent with Blue Origin's values.
• Program Execution & Cross-Functional Leadership • Own team deliverables, manage scope, schedule, budget, and technical quality across multiple concurrent structural design programs, identify and communicate risks early and drive mitigation plans.
• Oversee external design and fabrication partners, ensure technical compliance, quality, and schedule adherence through the full project lifecycle including fabrication, assembly, installation, and testing & activation.
• Interface with program managers, systems engineers, and operations leads to align on priorities and operations.
• Represent the structures team in program-level reviews, technical interchange meetings, and leadership forums, contribute to budget, headcount planning, and resource allocation in coordination with senior leadership.

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