Senior Manufacturing Engineering Lead - Propulsion

Lilium

Munich, Germany

Your role and your team:

You will be the technical voice of the manufacturing engineering product team, focused on propulsion manufacturing. Building strong partnerships with the Manufacturing and Engineering Leadership organization and acting as the primary interface for our Technical Leads and IPTs, reporting operationally to the Head of Industrial. You will be a key member of the Manufacturing Engineering Leaders community.

The subject matter expert (SME) during trade-off discussions and decision-making sessions about propulsion manufacturability, considering scalability, material, methods, and costs. Representing the manufacturing community technically, you will confidently handle escalations and conflicts of interest to promote good manufacturing engineering practices and secure product Design for Manufacture/Assembly.

Your Day to Day:

Represent MEs and production in daily stand-ups and priority meetings.
Drive capability acquisition of new technologies, systems, and factories to establish a state-of-the-art manufacturing process
Actively contribute to design reviews and production readiness for new product introduction.
Mentor your teammates as the resident expert for a variety of manufacturing processes.
Ensure technology development demonstrator roadmaps include manufacturing feasibility trials during design development

Your Profile:

We are looking for a highly experienced product (not process, or assembly) manufacturing specialist with a proven ability to lead both people, and technical decision making. Demonstrating technical credibility and deep expertise in propulsion/powertrain production (preferably from aerospace or automotive manufacturing), you will bring a pragmatic and decisive approach to complex situations.

Demonstrated deep involvement in 2 or more high-impact programs from start of design, through ramp-up, to post production is essential.

A strong collaborator with proven decision-making and conflict resolution experience, adept at managing cross-functional relationships with teams like Design Engineering, Quality, Program Management, Procurement and navigating competing priorities.

Key Requirements:

Relevant Bachelors degree and a minimum of 10 to 15 years of experience in product centred manufacturing engineering, supply chain quality, or industrial engineering relating to propulsion/powertrain
Excellent analytical capabilities with a drive to challenge the status quo. Eager to learn; puts the team first; resilient with a passion for achieving mission objectives. Accustomed to using failure as a learning tool and applying a high sense of urgency
Hands-on mentality and heavy collaboration with production teams to secure continuous production flow

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