Principal Supply Chain Project Manager, Global Logistics

About this role

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 Operations, which is comprised of Integrated Supply Chain, Test Operations, Safety, Quality, and Mission Assurance. This includes Manufacturing and Supply Chain support across all Blue Origin facilities.

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 will own end-to-end logistics strategy for a high-growth, greenfield program. The product is large, heavy, and time-critical: multiple manufacturing sites, an international supplier base, and customer delivery sites distributed across North America and abroad. This role reports to the Senior Director, Operations and partners closely with Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Program, Trade Compliance, and Customer Delivery teams.

The successful candidate will design the logistics operating model from the ground up — inbound flow from global suppliers, inter-site movement between manufacturing and integration facilities, oversize and heavy-haul outbound delivery to customers, warehousing footprint input, and the trade compliance backbone underneath all of it. This role starts as a strategic individual contributor and is expected to grow into a leadership role as the function scales.

We are building an AI-first organization. There are no traditional expediters or data entry analysts. Routine workflows are automated, and human time is reserved for decisions that require judgment. The right candidate will be energized by that model, not unsettled by it.

This role demands a rare profile: someone with deep heavy-industrial logistics credibility, international trade fluency, network design experience, and the judgment to build a function that does not yet exist while remaining willing to operate hands-on until the team is hired.

Responsibilities: Logistics Network Strategy • Design the end-to-end logistics network: inbound from global suppliers, inter-site flow between manufacturing and integration facilities, and outbound delivery to customers • Build the multi-modal transportation strategy — ocean, air, rail, over-the-road, heavy-haul, and oversize permitted loads • Establish the carrier base, rate strategy, and master service agreements; own total landed cost across the network • Define lane-level service requirements, transit time targets, and contingency routing for critical-path freight

Heavy-Haul and Customer Delivery • Own outbound delivery strategy for large, heavy, and oversize equipment to domestic and international customers • Develop the permit, escort, route survey, and site receiving playbook required to move project-cargo-class hardware safely and on schedule • Partner with Customer Delivery and Field Operations on receiving readiness, offload, and final placement • Build the international delivery model — port strategy, breakbulk and project cargo carriers, in-country drayage, and last-mile heavy-haul

Warehousing and Site Operations • Define the warehousing footprint and operating model across manufacturing, integration, and forward-positioned sites • Lead 3PL selection and management where outsourced warehousing or transportation is the right answer; own the build vs. buy decision • In partnership with Warehousing, support WMS definition, yard management, and dock scheduling requirements; partner with the technology team on implementation

International Supply Chain and Trade Compliance • Own the inbound international logistics architecture — INCOTERMS strategy, customs brokerage, freight forwarder selection, and import duty optimization • Establish the trade compliance backbone: ECCN classification, HTS coding, country-of-origin determination, FTZ and duty drawback strategy where applicable • Partner with Legal and Trade Compliance on export licensing for international customer deliveries • Build supplier and customer logistics documentation standards into commercial agreements at the time of award

Cross-Functional and Executive Engagement • Represent logistics strategy in executive program reviews; communicate clearly and credibly to senior leadership • Partner with Commodity Management and Supply Chain Engineering to embed logistics requirements into supplier agreements — packaging, INCOTERMS, returnable lanes, and routing • Coordinate with Manufacturing, Quality, and Program teams on receiving, line-feed, and finished-goods readiness • Define logistics and warehousing requirements for ERP, TMS, and WMS

Requirements: • 15+ years of progressive logistics, transportation, and warehousing experience, including network design and heavy/oversize freight • Demonstrated track record designing or significantly transforming a logistics network in a high-rate manufacturing or large-equipment delivery environment • Deep experience with project cargo, heavy-haul, oversize permitted loads, and international breakbulk shipping • Experience with AI-enabled workflows and a willingness to build without traditional support structures • International trade fluency: INCOTERMS, customs brokerage, HTS/ECCN classification, FTZ, duty drawback, and export licensing • Strong financial acumen: total landed cost modeling, carrier rate negotiation, and 3PL business cases • Experience presenting logistics and network strategy to senior executive audiences • Comfort operating as a hands-on individual contributo

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