PA Engineer - Additive Manufacturing (m/f/d)

The role

You will provide hands-on product assurance for additively manufactured flight hardware during production, inspection and acceptance. You will ensure manufacturing processes and controls follow mission, customer and regulatory requirements.

What you will do

• Perform hands-on product assurance activities for additively manufactured flight hardware.
• Provide assurance input to manufacturing readiness reviews, production reviews and acceptance boards.
• Monitor additive manufacturing risks including material variability and parameter control.
• Ensure critical characteristics and verification evidence are traceable to product requirements.
• Verify implementation of material, machine, process and part qualification requirements.
• Verify the integrity of the digital and physical process chain.
• Review supplier and internal manufacturing capabilities and readiness.
• Ensure required witness specimens, material testing and inspections are completed.
• Provide product assurance oversight of changes to machines, parameters, materials and suppliers.
• Lead or support the risk-based disposition of additive manufacturing non-conformances, deviations and concessions.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering or a related discipline.
• Experience in product assurance, quality engineering, materials engineering or additive manufacturing within aerospace, space, defence or another highly regulated environment.
• Strong understanding of metal additive manufacturing processes and their associated failure modes and controls.
• Knowledge of additive design principles, material behaviour, powder or feedstock control, build preparation, heat treatment, machining and surface finishing.
• Experience with process qualification, material qualification, First Article Inspection and production acceptance activities.
• Understanding of CT, NDT, metallography, mechanical testing, dimensional inspection and statistical process control for additive parts.
• Ability to review technical drawings, specifications, build records, qualification reports and inspection evidence.
• Working knowledge of configuration management, traceability, change control, non-conformance management and risk-based decision making.
• Strong analytical judgement with the confidence to constructively challenge technical and acceptance decisions.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills across Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, suppliers and programme stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with aerospace quality and product assurance frameworks such as EN 9100, ECSS or equivalent requirements is advantageous.
• Preferably laser powder bed fusion

Benefits

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

Before you apply

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

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.