Project Manager - Aircraft Battery Factory

A career at Lilium is for those who want to do something extraordinary. We take pride in pushing the boundaries of engineering, technology and customer experience. As part of a team, you will tackle challenges and deliver something that has never been done before.

By joining Lilium you will have the opportunity to work with a world-class entrepreneurial team of more than 800 people who are as passionate about changing the world as you are. You will always act with safety and integrity in mind and embody our core behaviors of efficient and positive collaboration, ownership of time, continuous improvements and, ultimately delivering results.

We thrive on diversity and creating an inclusive culture, with more than 50 nationalities currently working hard to bring our vision of a sustainable world to life.

Your role:

We have a fantatic opportunity for an accomplished, hands-on project manager with proven experience in aviation or automotive assembly! In this key role, you will drive the setup of Lilium's Aircraft Battery production facility.

Managing our production capability acquisition, including new factories, technology acquisition, and process implementation. Our production organization aims to set new standards with best-in-class, reliable, digital production.

Your Day to Day:

• Securing project plans for the development of a new battery production facility. This includes prototype production projects as well as process development, design, and implementation of pilot lines and series production facilities.
• Manage programs across partner organizations, contractors, and project PMOs.
• Work closely with Aircraft Programme project management teams to effectively coordinate complex cross-functional and cross-organizational inter-dependencies.
• Document and manage requirements, risks and opportunities, actions, and other crucial program-relevant information
• Facilitate regular meetings, define KPIs, and track progress. This includes setting up a visual programme management, coordinating between different parties involved and following up on critical path actions, managing time, cost, and resource aspects

About you:

We are looking for a Project Manager with proven experience in industrialization and factory setup. Our strong preference is for experience of battery industrialization, but related experience gained within aviation or automotive industry will be considered.

As we ramp up quickly from predominantly manual processes to automated ones, we would love to see experience of working in a similar environment alongside a proven ability to handle complex issues, solve tricky problems and come up with workable solutions.

Experience with the development and implementation of cell technology and exposure to high-volume production would be an advantage.

Requirements:

• Engineering, and/or business administration degree with an excellent academic track record.
• Minimum of 5 years experience in project management or operations positions with experience in high-volume, automated manufacturing new factory projects. Experience with green-field projects is preferred
• Exceptional analytical skills with a drive to challenge the status quo
• Demonstrated cross-functional leadership skills
• Excellent understanding of techniques for scheduling, risk management, estimation, project communications and budget and resource management
• Fluency in Excel and Project Planning Software. (Experience with ERP and Business Intelligence software is beneficial)
• Fluency in spoken & written English is required; (German language is beneficial)

Welcome to the future

Elegance, speed, comfort, and sustainability – fusing to a new form of traveling. The Lilium airplane is the only means of transportation that can meet the demands of future mobility and therefore shape it now. We are introducing the world's first electric vertical take-off and landing jet.

Lilium is a thriving Start-up creating a revolution in personal transportation and e-mobility with secured funding and proven technologies (several flying prototypes) with support from the European Space Agency (ESA). We are a highly energetic and ambitious team with world-class investors who value outstanding talent, serious creativity, and elaborate innovation.

At Lilium, you will work with the world´s most talented engineers, designers, and thought leaders to revolutionize the way people travel. We apply an exceptional breadth and depth to our work, we are incredibly focused on our mission and we are therefore looking for people like us who are continuously striving towards perfection. If you, too, are filled with the insatiable need to grow, to innovate, and to create don‘t hesitate to grasp this exclusive opportunity.

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