Systems Engineering Manager

In this position you shall become responsible for the technical management of the fully integrated development and realization of optical systems for space applications to meet the stakeholders' expectations within performance, cost, schedule and risk constraints.

Your Tasks

• Act as technical focal point between engineering and other organizational functions (Customer, Project Management, AIT Management, Product Assurance)
• Coordinate the integrated technical effort and the engineering interfaces via the Work Breakdown Structure, System Engineering Management Plan and Engineering Work Plan
• Ensure that all necessary technical engineering tasks are defined, planned and resourced
• Establish and maintain the instrument-level technical baseline including requirements, constraints, designs, assumptions, interfaces, resource allocations and team responsibilities
• Lead analysis of customer requirements and definition, evaluation, and verification of instrument-level requirements; decompose to subsystem level with traceability and exhaustiveness
• Coordinate the assessment of the instrument-level compliance considering lower level compliance status
• Generate cost, schedule, and performance projections based on the top-level system design
• Act as the final decision authority on instrument-level design and performance
• Provide technical support to ensure the design integrity and convergence
• Provide technical contributions to Project Management for balancing technological needs versus non-technical, interests, e.g. for time- and cost-planning or for coordination and support of subcontractors
• Provide technical contributions to project risk management
• Manage and lead project- or instrument-level technical reviews
• Implement and ensure control of the System Engineering processes within the project

• University (TU), polytechnic degree or PhD in Physics or Engineering, preferably with major focus on Optical Systems
• Proven Systems Engineer or Technical Manager experience on scientific optical instruments (interferometers, spectrometers, telescopes)
• Ideally, experience in the development logic of Space Instruments for Earth Observation or Astronomy in Phases 0 to B2, as well as significant H/W experience in the Phases C and D
• Experience in engineering economic, scost/schedule projections, resource planning, risk analysis
• Organised and structured task approach, experience in technical coordination of a multidisciplinary engineering team

Skills & Competencies:

• Team work, good conceptual, analytical and organizational skills
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills
• Highly proficient in English (spoken and written); German language skills beneficial

Work Life Balance: Flexible working hours, sabbatical, 30 days vacation & special leave days Mobile Work: Hybrid work & mobile work abroad Structured on-boarding process (incl. Assignment of a buddy in the first months) Development: Extensive range of training courses, individual professional development, German language courses & annual employee dialogue space projects Additional benefits: 13. monthly salary, accident insurance & company pension plan Catering: High standard company restaurant & generous meals subsidy Active health promotion: Health management, E-GYM Wellpass & In-company sports groups Family: Kindergarten subsidy / Kindergarten places, Childcare in the vacation period & paid child sickness days Mobility: Subsidized Deutschland ticket, Job bike & parking lots Company parties & events: Christmas party, Satellite launch events, NextGen Speakers Night Innovation: Company suggestion system & free research and development

OHB System AG is one of the leading space companies in Europe. The company is part of the listed high-tech group OHB SE, which has more than 3,200 employees working on pivotal European space programs. With two strong locations in Bremen and Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich and more than 40 years of experience, OHB System AG specialises in high-tech solutions for space. These include low-orbiting and geostationary satellites for Earth observation, navigation, telecommunications, science and space exploration as well as systems for human space flight and aerial reconnaissance. We owe our success to our employees' passion for innovation, as well as their commitment and initiative.