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In this role, you lead technical projects for a space-based early warning system, analyze requirements, develop system architectures, and specify solutions within an interdisciplinary team.
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Your role in the team
- Lead of technical projects team in a predevelopment phase for a space based early warning system.
- Technical lead and coordination of project teams for the development of a space system, including consortium partners and internal departments.
- Analysis of customer-, mission- and system requirements (specifications, SoW), including execution of a functional analysis, preparation of a requirements tree and identification of proposed adaptations.
- Technical lead and execution of trade-offs, analysis and definition of mission and system architecture.
- Definition, design, and specification of space systems, including mission and system design, analysis and design of the entire system of systems and space systems, and their specifications.
- Partial responsibility for project success, including performance (schedule, cost, quality) as part of the entire project success.
- Definition and coordination of the technical interfaces between the space system elements and external systems.
- Definition of a design, development and verification plan (DDV / AIV) for system of systems in coordination with systems engineering and AIV / AIT.
- Implementation of the technical aspects of the company strategy.
- Mögliche Übernahme der Projektmanagementfunktion.
- Temporarily or permanently other reasonable and equivalent activities according to existing knowledge and skills.
Our expectations of you
Education
- Master’s degree (or equivalent) in Aerospace Engineering, Space Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
Qualifications
- Strong expertise in requirements engineering, mission analysis, system architecture, and end-to-end space system design.
- Proven ability to define specifications, system-of-systems concepts, interfaces, and operational concepts for payloads, launchers, and ground segments.
- Sound knowledge of risk management, stakeholder management, ECSS standards, and commercial aspects including customer and market requirements.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and leadership skills, with the ability to manage conflicts, influence stakeholders, and work effectively in multidisciplinary teams.
- Entrepreneurial, solution-oriented, and results-driven mindset, combined with creativity, openness, and a confident, diplomatic professional presence.
Experience
- Several years of professional experience across multiple space projects, covering key development and project lifecycle phases.
- Experience in system performance and budget analyses, quality assurance, development planning (DDV/AIV), qualification activities, and TRL assessment.
What we offer
- Work Life Balance: Flexible working hours, sabbatical, 30 days vacation & special leave days.
- Mobile Work: Flexible working arrangement balancing remote and on-site work.
- 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.
- Additional benefits: 13th monthly salary, accident insurance & company pension plan.
- Catering: High-standard company restaurant & generous meal subsidy.
- Active health promotion: Health management, E-GYM Wellpass & in-company sports groups.
- Family: Kindergarten subsidy / Kindergarten places, Childcare during vacation periods & paid child sick days.
- Mobility: Subsidized Germany ticket, company bike & parking spaces.
- Company parties & events: Christmas party, Satellite launch events, NextGen Speakers Night.
- Innovation: Company suggestion system & free research and development.
Topics you will work on
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About your employer
For more than 40 years, OHB System AG has been developing high-tech solutions for the aerospace industry and other fields.
- 1981
- Established Company
- Onsite, Hybrid
- Aviation, Space Travel
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