Senior Facilities Maintenance Project Manager

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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 team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight!

This role is part of Blue Origin corporate functions, providing centralized support across Blue Origin business unit teams, functions, and locations.

We are in search of a Facilities Maintenance Project Manager to support our remote Florida facilities. The Facilities team is chartered with evaluating customer requirements, effectively planning the space, supporting occupation and maintaining the current industrial and office spaces.

Your collaboration will be crucial to ensuring operational excellence in the construction, setup, maintenance, and handling of the facility and equipment. This role demands hands-on high technical expertise, leadership, and organizational skills to match our rapid design, analysis, and integration pace.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee daily maintenance and repairs of physical buildings, manage contracted facilities staff, and coordinate with 20+ vendors/contractors.
• Lead the development and implementation of preventive maintenance (PM) and predictive maintenance (PdM) programs within the CMMS for company facilities.
• Schedule all preventative maintenance, repair and site support services.
• Interact with landlords of leased spaces in support of Blue Origin employees.
• Develop and implement continuous improvement initiatives, report on performance metrics.
• Develop and manage short- and long-term plans for maintenance, repairs, and capital expenses for facilities.
• Provide matrixed support for engineering and construction efforts at associated sites, including site QA/AC of projects, design review, commissioning participation and other duties necessary to support Team Blue.
• Negotiate with outside vendors and contractors, generate Statements of Work, and coordinate requests for proposals with Procurement.
• Review existing contracted services and work scope to identify potential cost improvements and performance enhancements.
• Assist Facilities leadership in evaluating maintenance services strategies.
• Maintain a high level of best-in-class safety standards for team and facilities.
• Have budget responsibility for approximately $2.5M+ annually for services, repairs, and upgrades.
• Building coverage support responsibility: Leased office, research & development, and warehouse space (8 properties/625K square feet).

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 10 years of experience maintaining, supervising maintenance personnel and managing maintenance programs of complex industrial facilities and infrastructure.
• Industry-recognized certification in maintenance management preferred (AFE-CPMM, IFMA-CFM).
• Demonstrated maintenance and construction project management experience, Certified Project Manager (PMP) preferred.
• Demonstrated supervisory experience.
• Working knowledge of an EAMS or CMMS system (Maximo a plus).
• Strong vendor management skillset.
• Proficient in the Microsoft Office suite.

Culture Statement

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Benefits

• Benefits include: 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%, and an Education Support Program.

• Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.

• Dependent on role type and job level, employees may be eligible for benefits and bonuses based on the company's intent to reward individual contributions and enable them to share in the company's results, or other factors at the company's sole discretion. Bonus amounts and eligibility are not guaranteed and subject to change and cancellation. Please check with your recruiter for more details.

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