Director Production Engineering (m/f/d)
Isar Aerospace · DE
Mission Brief As Director of Production Engineering, you are accountable for the end-to-end production engineering capability across all manufacturing operat...
Job description
Mission Brief As Director of Production Engineering, you are accountable for the end-to-end production engineering capability across all manufacturing operations. Your mission is to industrialize development outputs into repeatable, scalable, and compliant serial production, ensuring manufacturing readiness, process stability, quality, cost efficiency, and on-time delivery. You lead the team that converts early procedures into robust production standards, embeds them in PLM/MES systems, and drives continuous improvement across the factory. You act as the primary interface between Engineering (design & development) and Manufacturing (production & operations)—ensuring requirements, procedures, tooling, documentation, test strategies, and digital manufacturing infrastructure are aligned for high-rate, high-quality execution. Your Role in Our Space Mission: 1) Production engineering strategy & leadership 2) Assembly, integration & test (AIT) process ownership 3) Industrialization & manufacturing readiness (NPI / transfer to production) 4) Digital manufacturing (PLM/MES) & configuration control 5) Documentation, compliance & quality partnership 6) Cross-functional execution & production...