Systems Engineer Manager (m/f/d) for IRIS²

Your Tasks

• Technical and organizational management of System Engineers in their respective assignments on the project, initially in phase B1 and later in phase B2/C/D), providing the guidance to achieve the mission technical objectives
• Act as interface to the project management and to the customer for any technical questions
• Define the system requirements (including verification approach), coordinated with the project management
• Evaluate/challenge the running development and technical design, including independent analyses according to system requirements and suggest/undertake corrective steps in case of deviations
• Define the systems engineering processes in order to organise and coordinate the work between the company entities (SE, ENG, AIT, PA/QA and SCM) and the Project Management
• Ensure technical information exchange and networking within project team, with Telecom Systems as well functional/engineering departments
• Organise regular checkpoints during the project, integrate cost- and technical budget contributions to establish the overall budgets on system level
• Responsible for the timely delivery of inputs/outputs of the system engineering team
• Support the project management in the risk assessment, cost structure and overall planning
• Cooperate with the payload department in telecom and the other satellite engineering department on the satellite design
• Support studies and projects related to telecom systems business
• Support cost optimization of the OHB telecommunication platform products

Your Qualifications

• Master degree in engineering, physics or aerospace engineering or equivalent qualification
• At least 5 experience in space business as technical/system lead in proposal, studies (phase A/B) and projects (phase B2/C/D)
• Experience in system engineering from mission definition (including constellation) and satellite/platform/subsystems design including AIV/AIT phase
• Experience in the technical fields of space communication systems especially Telecommunication satellite
• Strong self-motivation and ability to identify personally with the goals
• Strong capability to challenge the technical baseline and propose/undertake corrective actions
• Very good communication skills and ability to work in a team
• Very good knowledge of English, German is an added value