Chief Manufacturing Engineer - Propulsion

Are you ready to be at the forefront of revolutionizing air mobility?   As we embark on the exciting journey towards serial production of our ground-breaking Lilium jet, we have an opportunity for a technically strong leader specializing in propulsion to take on a key role in our team!

Your role and your team:  

As the technical voice of the manufacturing engineering product team, you will build strong partnerships with the Manufacturing Leadership organization.  Acting as the primary interface to our Technical Leads, IPTs, and Heads of Shops, and reporting directly to the CMO/ VP of Industrial Readiness. 

The technical lead and key relationship owner, you will be the subject matter expert (SME) during trade-off discussions and decision-making sessions and be the key liaison to Chief Engineering for manufacturability assessments from a material, methods, and cost perspective.  Representing the manufacturing community technically, you will confidently handle escalations and conflicts of interest from manufacturing engineers (MEs)  and promote good manufacturing engineering practices.  

Your Day to Day: 

• Represent MEs and production in daily stand ups and priority meetings. 
• Drive capability acquisition of new technologies, systems, and factories to establish a state-of-the-art manufacturing process 
• Mentor your teammates as the resident expert for variety of manufacturing processes.   
• Ensure technology development demonstrator roadmaps include manufacturing feasibility trials alongside design development 
• Support design review and production readiness for the new products 

Your Profile: 

We are looking for a credible, experienced technical leader with an extensive expertise in propulsion gained within an automotive, aerospace or related manufacturing environment,   Demonstrated deep  involvement in 2 or more complete high-impact programs from start of design to post production is essential. 

A strong collaborator with proven decision-making and conflict resolution experience, adept at managing cross-functional relationships with teams like Design Engineering, Quality, Program Management, Procurement and navigating competing priorities. 

Key Requirements: 

• Relevant Bachelors degree and a minimum of 10 to 15 years of experience in manufacturing engineering, supply chain quality, or industrial engineering relating to propulsion 
• Excellent analytical capabilities with a drive to challenge the status quo.  Eager to learn; puts the team first; resilient with a passion for achieving mission objectives.  Accustomed to using failure as a learning tool and applying a high sense of urgency 
• Hands-on mentality and heavy collaboration with production teams to secure continuous production flow  

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