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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! This role is part of the Blue Origin Engines business unit, where our focus is the design, development, manufacturing, and testing of engines and propulsion systems. Built for multiple uses, our family of engines is powering the next generation of rockets for commercial, civil, national security, and human spaceflight and Mission Assurance team. As part of a small, passionate and accomplished team of experts, you will lead our BE-3PM Engine Test integrated product team (IPT). Our engines are being developed to support affordable, low-cost access to space. This role will manage the Engine Test Process, IPT scope, schedule and budget required for development and production, manage upgrades & improvements, ensure certification for flight and support our commercial operations. Customer interaction will be required! This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your dedicated commitment and detailed attention towards safe, repeatable and low-cost spaceflight! Responsibilities: Report directly to the Engines BE-3PM Program Manager (PM) and be accountable for planning, execution and on-time/on-budget delivery of test scope as delegated by the PM. Own the overall engine test lifecycle of product from product development and test planning to qualification, certification and production. Lead the cross functional team to achieve the Engine Test IPT scope by providing programmatic leadership. Collaborate with the resource owners to manage the BE-3PM Engine Test team workload. Establish and maintain regular business rhythm, consistent review products, 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 and company level reviews. Deliver test program status updates to program manager, customer and Engines Leadership Maintain robust documentation of your approved program scope & deliverables, ensuring scope is clearly communicated across all Blue Origin supporting organizations, and you/your team facilitate alignment of the resource needs, resource availability and time-phased budgets. Facilitate support from Blue Origin Support Functions: Operations, Integrated Supply Chain (ISC), Test and Flight Operations (TFO), Safety Quality and Mission Assurance (SQ&MA) and other support organizations. Liaise between various businesses partners and process owners to facilitate seamless program execution. Build relationships between test site in West Texas and the component engineering team. Develop, own and support the maintenance of a resource loaded schedule and ensure resource demands are loaded into the appropriate forecasting and management systems. Be responsible for your IPT budget management and tracking. Work with Chief Engineering, Engines & Space Vehicle engineering & design teams to identify and resolve technical issues across the product lifecycle. Find opportunities for test plan optimizations for both cycle time and cost reductions. Responsible for engine development and qualification plans and reports. Ensure timely and high-quality test execution cross functionally across Blue business units. Accountable for high quality test readiness reviews, pre-test planning, test execution, post-test data review and post-test reporting. Support the Flight Operations IPT in root cause analysis. Manage physical engine interfaces between engine and test and flight organization. Support your IPT imple