ГерманияHead of Electronics & software
3 дн. назад
ГерманияHead
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Senior leadership role to lead and develop engineering capabilities in spacecraft electronics and software systems.
Требования
- We are looking for someone who combines credible engineering depth with proven organisational leadership .
- You should bring:
- Strong hands-on engineering experience in at least one of the following: avionics, electronics, embedded systems, flight software, GNC or electrical systems
- Enough technical breadth to operate effectively across several of these disciplines and understand how they interact
- Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams in a complex product environment
- Proven formal line-management experience, including developing managers and technical leaders
- Experience hiring, developing and building engineering organisations
- Experience with organisational design, workforce and capacity planning
- Experience creating or improving engineering processes, tools, standards and ways of working
- Experience operating within a matrix organisation and supporting multiple projects or programmes
- Strong coaching, mentoring, communication and influencing skills
- The technical credibility to challenge senior engineers while empowering the appropriate technical owners to make decisions
- A pragmatic approach to engineering quality, assurance and compliance, including relevant EN9100 practices
- Experience in spacecraft, launch vehicles, aerospace, defence, aviation, robotics or another complex safety-critical engineering environment would be particularly relevant.
Другое
- Here at , we are building spacecrafts for humanity.
- We are looking for a Head of Electronics & Software to lead and develop the engineering capability behind some of the most critical systems in our spacecraft.
- This is a senior leadership role combining people leadership, engineering excellence, organisational development and technical breadth . You will lead a multidisciplinary organisation spanning:
- Avionics, communications and electrical power systems
- Flight software (FSW)
- Guidance, navigation and control (GNC)
- Electrical wiring and interconnection systems (EWIS), including harness engineering
- Future projects and advanced electronics and software development
- You will be responsible for ensuring our teams have the people, skills, processes, tools and engineering standards needed to deliver ambitious space programmes today, while building the capabilities we will need for the future.
- This is not a role for someone looking to step away from engineering. We are looking for a leader who can engage credibly with highly technical teams, challenge constructively, develop strong technical leaders and help create an environment where exceptional engineering can happen.
- Our engineering teams work in a matrix organisation, combining strong functional leadership with project-based delivery.
- As Head of Electronics & Software, you will lead the functional organisation, developing its people and capabilities while working closely with Project Managers, Project Chief Engineers, technical authorities and engineering Leads responsible for programme delivery.
- You will:
- Lead and develop Project Leads, discipline Leads, Principal Engineers and transversal engineering resources
- Partner with project leadership to align capability, resources and priorities with programme needs
- Help teams navigate competing priorities across projects
- Ensure clear ownership and accountability between functional leadership and project execution
- Build an organisation capable of supporting multiple programmes as the company grows
- Success in this environment requires collaboration, influence and sound engineering judgement rather than centralising every technical decision.
- This role owns the strength and effectiveness of the Electronics & Software organisation : its people, capability, engineering practices, tools, standards and functional budget.
- You will create the environment in which our technical teams can perform at their best, providing mentoring, challenge and access to expertise while supporting technical and project leadership in making strong engineering decisions.
- Project technical decisions and product technical authority remain within the relevant project and technical organisations. Your role is to ensure they are supported by a highly capable engineering organisation with the right expertise, methods and resources.
- You will build and shape a high-performing Electronics & Software organisation.
- Your responsibilities will include:
- Owning workforce and headcount planning across the function
- Recruiting and retaining exceptional engineering talent
- Developing clear job families, role levels and assessment standards
- Partnering with Talent Acquisition, engineering Leads and hiring managers to maintain a high technical hiring bar
- Leading promotion, compensation and organisational planning within the function
- Building succession plans and reducing key-person dependencies in specialist areas
- Creating an organisation that remains lean, scalable and aligned with current and future programme needs
- Developing strong engineers and technical leaders will be a major part of the role.
- Lead and develop the managers, Leads and senior engineers within your organisation
- Establish meaningful objectives aligned with project and company priorities
- Build clear development and technical career paths
- Strengthen mentoring, coaching and leadership capability across the organisation
- Create opportunities for engineers to gain experience across design, integration, test and operations
- Address performance challenges fairly and constructively
- Build a culture where progression is based on demonstrated capability, impact and organisational need
- You will help define how excellent electronics and software engineering is done across the company .
- This includes:
- Owning and continuously improving engineering practices across electronics, software, GNC and electrical/harness engineering
- Establishing practical standards for electronics design, software development, testing, modelling, reviews and verification
- Ensuring teams understand and can effectively apply the relevant processes
- Supporting certification readiness, audits and continuous improvement, including applicable EN9100 requirements
- Working closely with Quality, Safety, Systems Engineering and the Chief Engineer organisation
- Using lessons from development, testing and operations to continuously improve engineering practices
- Our aim is not process for process's sake. We want processes that are lean, pragmatic and proportionate to engineering risk .
- You will ensure our engineers have the tools and engineering environment needed to work effectively and at scale.
- This includes capability across:
- Electronics and PCB design
- Harness CAD
- Software development, build and configuration toolchains
- Automated testing
- GNC analysis and modelling
- Software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop environments
- Simulation and shared test infrastructure
- You will drive standardisation, adoption and good engineering practice while partnering with Digital, IT, Procurement, Quality and other engineering teams.
- The goal is simple: engineering work should be efficient, traceable, reproducible and ready to scale.
- You will work closely with our projects to ensure they have access to the Electronics & Software capability they need.