Vehicle Production Engineer (m/f/d)
For temporary employment of 24 months
Rocket Factory Augsburg AG in Augsburg is looking for a Vehicle Production Engineer (m/f/d).
The vehicle team is seeking a proactive and organized individual with a technical background in mechanical, production, or aerospace engineering to oversee vehicle production and lifecycle management. The ideal candidate will act as the critical link between the Vehicle and Production teams; driving process improvements, fostering cross-functional collaboration, and ensuring the vehicle meets quality, cost, and delivery targets in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
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 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 WellPass, a training app which connects you to thousands of gyms and studios.
- Paid Time Off: 30 days annual leave and special leave days.
- RFA Family: Join our regular company and team events and become part of the RFA family.
- Parking: Free parking for your car and your bike.
This is the perfect opportunity to take on an exciting new challenge and be part of the leading private company in the new European space race. You'll get to work with over 300 employees from more than 44 countries and have the opportunity to accelerate your professional and personal development.
Ready to make history with us?
Apply now! We're looking forward to receiving your application in German or English.
Rocket Factory Augsburg AG Human Resources Questions regarding this posting? We are available under hr@rfa.space.
