Systems Engineering Manager (m/f/d)

Your Tasks

• Act as technical focal point between engineering and other organizational functions (Customer, Project Management, AIT Management, Product Assurance)
• Coordinate the integrated technical effort and the engineering interfaces via the Work Breakdown Structure, System Engineering Management Plan and Engineering Work Plan
• Ensure that all necessary technical engineering tasks are defined, planned and resourced
• Establish and maintain the instrument-level technical baseline including requirements, constraints, designs, assumptions, interfaces, resource allocations and team responsibilities
• Lead analysis of customer requirements and definition, evaluation, and verification of instrument-level requirements; decompose to subsystem level with traceability and exhaustiveness
• Coordinate the assessment of the instrument-level compliance considering lower level compliance status
• Generate cost, schedule, and performance projections based on the top-level system design
• Act as the final decision authority on instrument-level design and performance
• Provide technical support to ensure the design integrity and convergence
• Provide technical contributions to Project Management for balancing technological needs versus non-technical, interests, e.g. for time- and cost-planning or for coordination and support of subcontractors
• Provide technical contributions to project risk management
• Manage and lead project- or instrument-level technical reviews
• Implement and ensure control of the System Engineering processes within the project

Your Qualifications

• University (TU), polytechnic degree or PhD in Physics or Engineering, preferably with major focus on Optical Systems
• Proven Systems Engineer or Technical Manager experience on scientific optical instruments (interferometers, spectrometers, telescopes)
• Ideally, experience in the development logic of Space Instruments for Earth Observation or Astronomy in Phases 0 to B2, as well as significant H/W experience in the Phases C and D
• Experience in engineering economic, scost/schedule projections, resource planning, risk analysis
• Organised and structured task approach, experience in technical coordination of a multidisciplinary engineering team
• Skills & Competencies:
• Team work, good conceptual, analytical and organizational skills
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills
• Highly proficient in English (spoken and written); German language skills beneficial