AIT Processes Team Leader

The AIT Processes Team ensures harmonized, efficient, and digitalized AIT operations across all relevant sites. The team develops, maintains, and continuously improves AIT standards, methods, tools, and documentation, enabling safe, high-quality, and repeatable manufacturing processes. In close collaboration with AIT Operators, Engineering, Quality, IT, and Management Systems, the team supports both Bremen and Oberpfaffenhofen in establishing robust and future-proof AIT processes.

The AIT Processes Team Leader shall coordinate and ensure the execution of the following activities:

• Disciplinary responsibility for the AIT Processes team members, including their personal development
• Standardization, Development & Maintenance of AIT Processes and Documentation
• Definition, development, and maintenance of standardized AIT (core and support) processes
• Creation and upkeep of AIT documentation (work instructions, templates, procedure references, and checklists)
• Ownership of AIT Knowledge and Reference Documentation
• Administration and continuous update of AIT knowledge databases (AIT Handbook, CWA, AIT PDM repositories, best-practice collections)
• Establishing, maintaining, and improving a systematic Lessons Learned process for AIT
• Cross-Site Process Support (Bremen & Oberpfaffenhofen)
• Provide overarching process support for both locations (North/South)
• Facilitate harmonization of AIT processes and practices across sites
• Support for AIT Standardization Projects & Strategic Initiatives
• Technical support in projects related to AIT standardization initiatives, toolchain development, and digitalization projects (e.g., AIT.COM, PDM, Polarion, U2Champ)
• Providing expert support to tool users and ensuring effective tool usage
• Innovation, Automation & Digitalization of AIT Processes
• Identifying opportunities for automation and digitalization within AIT environments.
• Supporting and implementing digital initiatives (e.g., outputs of the AIT industrialization stream in U2Champ)
• Prepare serial production and maintain the overall satellite manufacturing system
• Training, Competence Development & Mentoring
• Supporting competence development in AIT, including trainings and knowledge management

• Completed engineering degree in a related discipline or an equivalent qualification
• Several years of involvement in satellite or comparable high-technology projects, ideally in the area of Assembly, Integration & Testing (AIT)
• Excellent conceptual and analytical abilities
• Strong communication skills and well-developed leadership capabilities
• Creativity and initiative in developing or improving AIT methods and test approaches
• Fluency in spoken and written English and German

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

A complete overview of our benefits and more details can be found here on our website.

Become part of our international team and take your professional and personal development to a new level. Don't fulfil all the requirements? No problem - we are happy to receive applications with partial matches! We are looking forward to your application in German or English via our online tool.

OHB System AG Human Resources

Questions regarding this posting? Diana Fuchs is available under career@ohb.de.

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.