Readiness and Resilience Manager at Blue Origin in Kent, WA

Readiness and Resilience Manager
Location: Greater Seattle Area
Application close date:
Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed.
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.
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. We are a team of collaborators, doers, and problem-solvers who are relentlessly committed to a culture of safety, sound judgment, and detailed attention to safe and repeatable spaceflight.
The Readiness and Resilience Manager role is part of Blue Origin Corporate Functions, providing centralized business continuity, incident readiness, and resilience support across Blue Origin business units, functions, and locations.  It serves as the Business Continuity team’s subject matter expert and program owner for enterprise exercise design, readiness validation, incident and crisis management training, emergency exercises, and continuous improvement. This role also supports the emerging TeraWave Business unit during its initial phases.
In this role you will lead Blue Origin's enterprise exercise and readiness validation program, serving as the team's specialist in designing, facilitating, and evaluating exercises that test the effectiveness of continuity plans, incident management procedures, recovery strategies, and cross-functional decision-making. Business continuity planning and BIA support are performed in service of this primary mission.
You will convert incident lessons learned into documented corrective actions with assigned owners, timelines, and measurable completion criteria -tracking those actions to closure and reporting readiness status to senior leadership on a recurring basis.
Incident and Crisis Readiness, Training, and Exercise Subject Matter Responsibilities:
Own and manage the Blue Origin Enterprise Exercise and Training Program, including an annual exercise calendar and multi-year program plan that progressively matures Blue Origin's readiness posture.
Lead the design, planning, facilitation, and evaluation of tabletop exercises, drills, workshops, functional exercises, and simulations using the HSEEP model or comparable methodology - serving as the enterprise standard-setter for exercise quality.
Develop exercise objectives, scenarios, injects, participant materials, facilitator guides, evaluation criteria, and after-action reports.
Own the Exercise Improvement Tracking System: convert after-action findings into corrective actions with assigned owners, timelines, and measurable completion criteria, tracked to closure.
Maintain a Readiness Scorecard communicating exercise completion, plan validation status, and corrective action progress to senior leadership.
Business Unit Resilience Support
Support the Business Resilience team’s engagement with emerging business units, including TeraWave, as operational needs, program priorities, and team assignments require.
Partner with TeraWave stakeholders during early operational maturation to help establish foundational Business Continuity Management capabilities, including Business Impact Analyses (BIAs), Business Recovery Plans, Contingency Management Plans, recovery strategies, and related continuity documentation.
Help integrate TeraWave and other emerging or evolving organizations into enterprise business continuity, incident- and crisis-management training, exercise, and continuity-plan testing programs.
Business Continuity Planning and Business Impact Analysis Responsibilities:
Conduct Business Impact Analyses (BIAs) with business units and functional groups to identify mission-critical processes, dependencies, recovery objectives, and continuity requirements.
Translate BIA findings into actionable Business Recovery Plans and Crisis Management Plans that can be directly tested through the exercise program.
Maintain continuity documentation within the BCM software platform; develop reports and dashboards communicating BIA status, plan maturity, and recovery readiness.
Support the ongoing delivery and maturation of the BIA framework, standards, and methodologies.
Special Mention:
Location: Renton, Washington
Schedule: Flexibility is required to support a 24/7 operational environment, which may include after-hours, weekend, holiday, and on-call support for incident response, business disruption recovery, planned exercises, and other time-sensitive business-resilience activities.
Travel: approximately 15–20% is required to support Blue Origin locations, regional exercises, and business continuity program needs.
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent industry or military experience.
3+ years of progressive experience planning, implementing, or sustaining Business Continuity Management, disaster recovery, emergency management, incident and crisis management, operational resilience, or related programs.
Demonstrated experience designing, facilitating, or evaluating tabletop exercises, drills, workshops, simulations, training, or other continuity and crisis-readiness activities.
Demonstrated experience conducting Business Impact Analyses and developing, maintaining, or validating business recovery, continuity, or crisis-management plans.
Knowledge of Business Continuity Management principles, recovery strategies, BIA methodologies, and plan-testing practices.
Experience with Microsoft Office Products: Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
Desired Qualifications:
Experience supporting incident-management teams, emergency operations centers, launch operations, hazardous operations, manufacturing operations, aerospace operations, or other high-reliability environments.
Experience developing multi-year continuity-plan testing, training, or exercise programs.
Experience using data, reporting, and dashboards to communicate program maturity, testing results, risk, and corrective-action progress.
Experience working with Generative AI tools and applications.
Certifications: Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP), Certified Emergency Manager (CEM), or Master Exercise Practitioner Program (MEPP).

Base Pay Range for:
WA applicants is $150,743.00 - $211,039.50
Other site ranges may differ

Culture Statement
Don’t meet all desired requirements? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single desired qualification. At Blue Origin, we are dedicated to building an authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every desired qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Export Control Regulations
Applicants for employment at Blue Origin must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e. current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Background Check
Required for all positions: Blue’s Standard Background Check
Required for Certain Job Profiles:  Defense Biometric Identification System (DBIDS) background check if at any time the role requires one to be on a military installation
Required for Certain Job Profiles: Drivers who operate Commercial Motor Vehicles with a Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW), Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR) or combination of power unit and trailer that meets or exceeds 10,001 lbs. and/or transports placardable amounts of hazardous materials by ground in any vehicle on a public road while in commerce, may be subject to additional Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations including: Driver Qualification Files, Medical Certification (obtained before onboarding), Road Test, Hours of Service, Drug and Alcohol Testing, vehicle inspection requirements, CDL requirements (if applicable) and hazardous materials transportation/shipping training.
Required for certain Job Profiles: Ability to obtain and maintain Merchant Mariner Credential, which includes pre-employment and random drug testing as well as DOT physical

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.
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, 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.

Equal Employment Opportunity
Blue Origin is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and is committed to attracting, retaining, and developing a highly qualified and dedicated work force. Blue Origin hires and promotes people on the basis of their qualifications, performance, and abilities. We support the establishment and maintenance of a workplace that fosters trust, equality, and teamwork. We provide all qualified applicants for employment and employees with equal opportunities for hire, promotion, and other terms and conditions of employment, regardless of their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin/ethnicity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status, or any other status or characteristic protected by federal, state, and/or local law. Blue Origin will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws, including the Washington Fair Chance Act, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles Fair Chance in Hiring Ordinance, and other applicable laws. For more information on “Know Your Rights,” please see here.

Affirmative Action and Disability Accommodation
Applicants wishing to receive information on Blue Origin’s Affirmative Action Plans, or applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in the application and/or interview process, please contact us at EEOCompliance@blueorigin.com. Please note this is a publicly managed inbox. Please do not include any personal medical information in your request.

Additional Locations: Kent, WA