Development Engineer (m/f/d)

Are you keen to embark on a space adventure? Would you like to play a part in ensuring European space autonomy and sovereignty? ArianeGroup’s international teams design and build cutting-edge technologies for space, defence and industry: they are shaping Europe’s future in space. Whether you are a first-time job-seeker or an experienced professional, you’ll find that our 13 sites in Germany, mainland France and French Guiana offer career opportunities spanning a wide array of professions – engineering, customer service, quality control, legal matters and production, to name just a few. Here, you can discover our job.

ArianeGroup GmbH in Lampoldshausen is looking for a ‘Development Engineer (m/f/d)’ for the department ‘Electrical Propulsion’ with immediate effect for 2 years.

What we offer you:

• 🚀 Practical experience and involvement in an international aerospace company

• 💶 Attractive remuneration in accordance with the collective agreements of the metal and electrical industry as well as various additional payments (Christmas and holiday bonuses, profit-sharing, etc.)

• 📈 Capital-forming benefits

• 🌴 30 days holiday

• 👍 Company pension plan

• 🚑 Sick pay subsidy

• 🌤Company health management (regular prevention programmes, social counselling, company integration management)

• 🌈 Care for Life / Sabbatical

• 🕓 Flexible working hours with partial home office option / Flexible working time models

• 🔎 Personal development opportunities (e-learning, training, mentoring, use of expert network)

• 🎾 Discount through employee benefits (employee benefits portal, Egym Wellpass, hire or purchase of a car, bicycle leasing, subsidised „Deutschlandticket“)

• 🥗 Staff canteen and car park

Your main tasks and activities:

Coordinate and carry out development tasks for electric drive systems:

• Discuss designs with potential suppliers, customers or subcontractors together with procurement and prepare documentation for ordering

• Coordinate and plan development activities with interfaces and align them with overarching milestones.

• Control process planning and correct deviations

• Create development plans for the qualification and delivery of components and coordinate with other departments, estimate costs

• Initiate and monitor component production, approve production, create test plans

• Analyse customer requirements, define and coordinate requirements for assemblies or components, modify if necessary

• Ensure that components are developed on time, on budget, on quality and in line with functionality and installation requirements

• Pursue innovations in processes, materials, design and methodology, test them for applicability for the maturation of new technologies and products, and implement them if necessary

• Take appropriate measures to eliminate and minimise identified risks

Coordinate the necessary tests:

• Define verification objectives and test plans, including test objectives

• Monitor and supervise test setup and execution, initiate necessary corrective measures

• Check test procedures and test results, compare results with predictions or previous behaviour, investigate, explain and rectify anomalies, create test reports and implement the results in the technical documentation for the customer

Project support and quotations:

• Preparation of technical quotation documentation

• Conducting progress meetings

• Preparation of reports and technical documentation in accordance with project requirements

• Clarification of problems and risk assessment with team leader or manager

You have the following qualifications:

• Completed university degree (Master's) in aerospace, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering or comparable field

• More than 3 years of professional experience

• Very good knowledge of electric propulsion systems and diagnostics

• Very good knowledge of vacuum technologies

• Practical knowledge in the field of integration or testing desirable

• Fluent English and German skills

Are you interested?

Then we look forward to receiving your application, including CV, cover letter and references, via the application button. Please note that currently only one document can be uploaded with the application. Please use a free online tool to summarise your documents in a PDF.

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Few more words about our site of Lampoldshausen

At Lampoldshausen, in Baden-Württemberg, ArianeGroup operates a European centre of excellence for the development and production of propulsion systems for satellites, spacecraft and orbital platforms. It designs and produces propulsion systems and single and bi-propellant electrical and chemical engines, along with high-precision components for satellite and launcher attitude and orbit control systems (AOCS). The site also provides services such as satellite propellant refuelling.