Senior Quality Engineer Propulsion (m/f/d)

Mission Brief  As Director of Production Engineering, you are accountable for the end-to-end production engineering capability across all manufacturing operations. Your mission is to industrialize development outputs into repeatable, scalable, and compliant serial production, ensuring manufacturing readiness, process stability, quality, cost efficiency, and on-time delivery. You lead the team that converts early procedures into robust production standards, embeds them in PLM/MES systems, and drives continuous improvement across the factory. You act as the primary interface between Engineering (design & development) and Manufacturing (production & operations)—ensuring requirements, procedures, tooling, documentation, test strategies, and digital manufacturing infrastructure are aligned for high-rate, high-quality execution.  Your Role in Our Space Mission:  1) Production engineering strategy & leadership * Define and execute the production engineering roadmap, including industrialization strategy, standardization, and scalability for serial production. * Lead and develop a team of production/process/manufacturing engineers; set goals, coaching plans, hiring needs, and performance standards. * Establish clear governance for process ownership, engineering change implementation, and cross-functional decision-making. 2) Assembly, integration & test (AIT) process ownership * Own manufacturing process definition across: * Assembly: mechanical/electrical build procedures, torque specs, critical process parameters, work instructions. * Integration: subsystem integration strategy (e.g., avionics, propulsion, communications), sequencing, interfaces, and acceptance criteria. * Testing: functional, subsystem, and system-level test strategy; test readiness, execution plans, and troubleshooting methodology. * Ensure processes are repeatable, auditable, and optimized for safety, throughput, and quality. 3) Industrialization & manufacturing readiness (NPI / transfer to production) * Coordinate with development teams to receive initial procedures and convert them into production-ready standards (control plans, critical-to-quality characteristics where relevant). * Drive manufacturing readiness reviews, line readiness, and process qualification for new products, variants, or upgrades. * Lead the “first builds”/pilot runs, capturing learnings and stabilizing procedures for volume execution. 4) Digital manufacturing (PLM/MES) & configuration control * Own the production engineering contribution to PLM/MES: * Translate procedures into structured digital work instructions. * Ensure traceability, configuration control, and alignment of as-built data. * Oversee creation and maintenance of: * mBOM (Manufacturing Bill of Materials) * BOP (Bill of Process) * Routings, work centers, and data collection points for quality and traceability. * Ensure engineering changes are implemented cleanly and quickly, with minimal disruption to production. 5) Documentation, compliance & quality partnership * Ensure complete, consistent documentation for: * Work instructions, process specifications, test reports, NCRs (non-conformance reports), deviations/waivers, and as-built configurations. * Partner with Quality to build robust nonconformance management and corrective action systems (root cause, containment, RCCA & PA). * Ensure processes meet applicable regulatory, customer, and internal compliance requirements. 6) Cross-functional execution & production support * Serve as senior escalation point for technical blockers in production: diagnose recurring issues, direct corrective actions, and prevent reoccurrence. * Align with Supply Chain and Operations on: * Kitting strategy, material availability, critical path timelines, and constraint removal. * Coordinate engineering support coverage and readiness for shifts, rate increases, and critical campaigns. 7) Continuous improvement, cost & throughput * Support Lean Team on Lean/CI initiatives to improve: * Yield, cycle time, takt adherence, OEE, scrap/rework reduction, and labor efficiency. * Establish KPIs and operating mechanisms (tier meetings, weekly business reviews) to track and improve production engineering performance. * Build business cases for capital investments (test equipment, tooling, automation) and manage the budget for your scope. 8) Capability building: training & knowledge management * Build a strong knowledge-transfer system between engineers and technicians: * Training plans, certification matrices, standardized visual work instructions, and lessons-learned libraries. * Ensure procedures are systematically categorized, version-controlled, and easily accessible to production teams. Success measures (typical KPIs) * Improved first-pass yield, reduced NCR rate, reduced rework hours * Reduced cycle time and improved on-time delivery * Faster and cleaner engineering change implementation * Increased process stability (fewer repeat issues, fewer line stops) * Strong audit outcomes and complete traceability / as-built compliance * High team engagement, retention, and capability maturity Qualification Checklist  * Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace, Automotive, Industrial Engineering, or similar. * Significant experience in production/manufacturing engineering, industrialization, manufacturing operations—ideally across complex electromechanical systems. * Proven leadership experience managing teams and cross-functional stakeholders. * Strong working knowledge of PLM and/or MES, and structured manufacturing artifacts such as mBOM/BOP, routings, work instructions, and configuration control. * Demonstrated ability in troubleshooting and structured problem solving (e.g., 8D, Ishikawa, 5-Why). * Solid project/program management skills: prioritization, risk management, schedule ownership. * Fluent English; German or other languages depending on site needs. Benefits  * Employee Participation Program: Share in our success through our virtual company share program * 30 days of vacation: Enjoy the days off to relax and recharge * Company pension plan: Secure your future with our company pension plan, featuring a 20% employer contribution after the probation period * Subsidised lunch: Stay energised with delicious, subsidised lunches every day * Public transport ticket: Commute with ease using a fully financed Deutschlandticket * Rental clothing with laundry service: Enjoy hassle-free workwear with our convenient rental clothing and laundry service   * Sport Clubs membership: Stay fit with our sponsored sports club memberships (EGYM Wellpass) * Individual learning allowance: Grow your skills with an individual learning budget granted after the probation period * Childcare allowance: Receive a childcare allowance for your non-school-age children * And Much More! Discover additional perks and benefits when you join our team.          Who we are We are Isar Aerospace and we are at the forefront of New Space building a modern space business to enable faster, better and cheaper access to space. Our mission is to help democratise space and use it for good in order to improve life on Earth now and for the future generations. We are a fast-growing company aiming to provide sustainable and environmentally friendly launch solutions for small and medium-sized satellites and constellations into Low Earth Orbit. The company is privately funded by world-leading technology investors with strong commitment and support and our team is made of driven and talented people with a real passion for space innovation. We're making rockets in a way that hasn't been done before disrupting a traditional industry. 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Company description: Who are we?Volvo Cars is a company on a mission; to bring traditional car manufacturing into a connected, sustainable and smart future.Since 1927, we have been a brand known for our commitment to safety, creating innovative cars that make life less complicated for our consumers. In 2010, we decided to transform our business, resulting in a totally new generation of cars and technologies, as well as steady growth and record sales. Today, we’re expanding our global footprint in Europe, China and the US, and we’re on the lookout for new talent. We are constantly pushing our own skills and abilities to drive change in the automobile industry like never before. We are looking for innovative, committed people to join us in this endeavour and create safe, sustainable and connected cars. We believe in the power of people and will challenge and support you to reach your full potential. Join us and be part of Volvo Cars’ journey into the future. Job description: Let's introduce ourselves Volvo Cars is growing and facing an exciting future in the electrification of vehicles. If you want to utilize state of the art methods to test and verify next generation electrified luxury cars, the role as our new Hardware in the loop (HIL) Development Engineer is the role for you to prosper!You will be part of an HIL Development team in the eART Software Factory within the Product Stream Electric Propulsion. You will be a member of a truly international team designing HIL test-environments for production software testing. Meaning the HIL models, you will create is crucial for testing electrical propulsion ECUs used in the Traction Battery, Charging and Electric Drive Systems. What you'll do Volvo Cars’ development centers around software (SW) and in our next generation vehicles, we take a giant leap into the future by launching a capable centralized compute platform, hosting most of the in-house developed SW. In these next generation vehicles, we are building a computer-in-the-car architecture.  The Propulsion & Energy unit is located at Gothenburg. The department, Propulsion & Energy Quality has an Enabling ART (Agile Release Train) within Propulsion & Energy, with the purpose to provide the infrastructure for SW development teams to integrate, test, and release SW in a continuous integration (CI) flow. The infrastructure includes development and maintenance of Hardware-in-Loop setups for development, verification, and validation of software products. We do this by building a robust and automated test framework and enabling SW test & release in a CI flow. We are looking for our future team member to develop, validate and maintain Model-Based Hardware in Loop setups that are intended for software functionality verification on embedded systems. The embedded test setups are built around the above-mentioned Propulsion & Energy architecture. These setups are a combination of simulated vehicle components and real hardware components to emulate a real vehicle with all the relevant dynamics. Our team are responsible for the development and maintenance of these embedded setups (hardware-in-loop), while making sure that these setups are capable to execute relevant test cases for platform, software, and function verification. These are state-of-the art test setups, critical for testing software before the final product is launched. Hence, you will be working in a fast paced, innovative environment, solving problems and challenges daily. We offer you to work in a small cross functional team, with high focus on quality and continuous improvements. Together with your colleagues, you will define, set up and configure these test environments supporting our current and future projects. You will be working with Software application and deployment on core computer and embedded ECUs, model all relevant components and signals to enable test automation, moving us towards Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment. Together with us, you will grow your competence and get a broad understanding of Volvo Cars Next Generation Vehicles and Software Platform along with domain growth in Propulsion & Energy. You will work closely with other groups at Volvo Cars, our suppliers and get the opportunity to create a wide network. Profile description: What you'll bring You will fit well in this role if you are a Modeling and Simulation Engineer focusing on model-based development on HIL test beds and an understanding of Software Verification cycles correlated to Model Based Development (SIL, MIL, HIL and VIL)We see that you have a B.Sc. or M.Sc. in SW Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent with emphasis on SW development. You have extensive experience in either dynamic modelling using Matlab/Simulink or test automation. Experience from an Agile working environment and from Continuous Integration is beneficial.You are fluent in English. Software/ Plant model development (python, Matlab/Simulink, Stateflow) Experience with HIL systems and real-time simulation Experience in Continuous Integration dSPACE toolchain (ConfigurationDesk, AutomationDesk, ControlDesk,...) Knowledge of modeling electric motors, power electronics, and traction battery systems Automation of software test CAN and Automotive Ethernet communications  Meritorious: Experience from SW platform development, including middleware. Knowledge in Electric Propulsion simulation Knowledge in integration of sensor technologies Verification in vehicles at system or functional level or experience from test automation Experience in Core, Domain development/testing.