Director Spectrum Value Stream (m/f/d)

The role

The Director Value Stream is responsible for the end-to-end industrial execution of the launch vehicle program. This role owns operational strategy, manufacturing, supply chain, production, testing, quality, and assembly integration.

What you will do

• Lead all testing and assembly integration
• Develop and execute the company's industrial strategy
• Build an aerospace manufacturing organisation for scaling production
• Establish operational excellence, Lean manufacturing, and digital manufacturing
• Own operational delivery of the launch vehicle programme
• Partner with Engineering to ensure manufacturable designs
• Provide executive leadership for production, process, and factory automation engineering
• Lead manufacturing activities including CNC, electrical, composite, additive, and engine assembly
• Develop a resilient global supply chain and manage procurement and logistics
• Establish quality culture including manufacturing quality, product assurance, and supplier quality

Required qualifications

• Extensive executive leadership experience within aerospace, defence, automotive, advanced manufacturing, or another high-technology industry
• Proven record of scaling complex manufacturing operations from development into serial production
• Experience leading large multidisciplinary engineering and manufacturing organisations
• Strong knowledge of Lean manufacturing, industrialisation, and operational excellence
• Experience delivering complex capital equipment or highly regulated products
• Demonstrated success leading supply chain transformation and supplier development
• Experience managing large operational budgets and capital investment programmes
• Excellent stakeholder management
• Aerospace manufacturing knowledge
• Industrialisation knowledge
• Production systems knowledge
• Lean Manufacturing knowledge

Benefits

• Employee Participation Program: virtual company share program
• 30 days of vacation
• Company pension plan with 20% employer contribution after probation period
• Subsidised lunch
• Flexible mobility budget including Deutschlandticket, JobRad bicycle leasing, FINN JobAuto, or fuel allowance
• Rental clothing with laundry service
• Sport Clubs membership (EGYM Wellpass)
• Individual learning allowance after probation period
• Childcare allowance

Before you apply

• Affiliations with countries listed under § 13 para. 1 no. 17 SÜG may affect the application process due to security clearance requirements

About the company

Isar Aerospace is a fast-growing company building a modern space business to enable faster, better and cheaper access to space. The company aims to provide sustainable and environmentally friendly launch solutions for small and medium-sized satellites and constellations into Low Earth Orbit.