Vehicle Production Engineer (m/f/d).

About the Team

Our international and agile team is looking for support from a motivated person as a Stage Assembly & Integration Technician (f/m/d). This is your opportunity to be closely involved in the challenging development of prototypes and time- and cost-critical test campaigns. Do you enjoy working in a committed, dynamic, and international environment? Do you want to revolutionize space travel in New Space? Then you've come to the right place.

Your Tasks

• Responsible for the release and management of vehicle production documentation including BOMs for the entire vehicle, and overseeing our vehicle through its life cycle on the manufacturing and assembly floor
• Work across the business with your colleagues in Supply Chain, Quality, Production and Operations to ensure all aspects of the vehicle are built to specification and on time
• Develop new processes and toolsets to better connect our teams, reducing administrative overheads for Production whilst providing more insights into how our vehicles are built
• As the main interface between Vehicle and Production, deliver further reforms such as part industrialisation, increased quality controls and continuous improvement of work practice with a specific eye oriented at cost reduction
• Take responsibility for composites integration activities whilst working hand-in-hand with the Composites Development and Vehicle Design Engineers

Your Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical or Production Engineering, Aerospace, or related technical disciplines
• At least one year’s experience in manufacturing environments in a technical role, additional time served in other aerospace or engineering industries is desirable (one year or more)
• Self-independent, a structured way of working and committed to working in a fast-paced environment
• Transferable knowledge of a production engineering environment including lean manufacturing techniques
• Experience in Composites Manufacturing Processes including prepreg, VRI, and sandwich structures
• Experience in creating work instructions for manufacturing, machining and assembly of composite parts
• Knowledge of tooling solutions and processes for composite manufacturing
• Fair knowledge of manufacturing processes, how to organize work activities and tasks for industry, and management of assemblies.  Pre-existing knowledge of spaceflight and rockets is desirable
• Experience with CAD tools required, that with ERP or MES and business intelligence platforms desirable
• Experience with Siemens NX is desirable
• Fluent oral and written English skills (all day-to-day activities are performed in English)

We offer

Atmosphere: Experience life in an international & dynamic New Space start-up Flexibility: Fit your working schedule to your needs with flexible working hours Home Office: Full-time employees benefit from 1 day per week home office Health: Sweat, stretch or squat it out with EGYM Wellpass Paid Time Off: 30 days annual leave and special leave days RFA Family: Join regular company and team events Parking: Free parking for car and bike

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