Head of Valves & Equipment (m/f/d)

Are you keen to embark on a space adventure? Would you like to play a part in ensuring European space autonomy and sovereignty? ArianeGroup’s international teams design and build cutting-edge technologies for space, defence and industry: they are shaping Europe’s future in space. Whether you are a first-time job-seeker or an experienced professional, you’ll find that our 13 sites in Germany, mainland France and French Guiana offer career opportunities spanning a wide array of professions – engineering, customer service, quality control, legal matters and production, to name just a few. Here, you can discover our job.

ArianeGroup is looking for a ‘Head of Valves & Equipment (m/f/d)’ for the department ‘Combustion and Flow Control Devices´ with immediate effect. The position is located in Ottobrunn (Germany) or Vernon (France) and organized within the ´Liquid Propulsion Engineering´ center.

The job offers to act and take responsibility for a French/German team and you should feel enthusiastic about leading a bi-national team and being in charge of a product portfolio allocated at two sites.

What we offer you:

• 🚀 Practical experience and involvement in an international aerospace company

• 💶 Attractive remuneration in accordance with the collective agreements of the metal and electrical industry as well as various additional payments (Christmas and holiday bonuses, profit-sharing, etc.)

• 📈 Capital-forming benefits

• 🌴 30 days holiday

• 👍 Company pension plan

• 🚑 Sick pay subsidy

• 🌤Company health management (regular prevention programmes, social counselling, company integration management)

• 🌈 Care for Life / Sabbatical

• 🕓 Flexible working hours with partial home office option / Flexible working time models

• 🔎 Personal development opportunities (e-learning, training, mentoring, use of expert network)

• 🎾 Discount through employee benefits (employee benefits portal, Egym Wellpass, hire or purchase of a car, bicycle leasing, subsidised „Deutschlandticket“)

• 🥗 Staff canteen and car park

Your responsibilities:

• Ensuring a French/German excellence for Flow Control Devices (Valves and Equipment)

• Adaptation of the team’s vision and mission according to developing customer and market needs (engine & stage electrification, re-usability, high thrust engine, in space applications, H2 business, etc.)

• Development and maintenance of leading edge skills in the field of storable and cryogenic propellant Flow Control Devices

• Management and delivery of justification for all products within the Valves and Equipment portfolio

• Management of test and flight worthiness of all Flow Control Devices including anti POGO devices

• Technical acceptance of sub-contractor waivers

• Identification and pre-development of innovative/advanced valve and equipment technologies according to a well-kept R&T roadmap

Your main tasks and activities:

• Provide full perimeter of storable and cryogenic propellant flow control equipment engineering (conception, layout, verification and qualification)

• Manage and supervise the team's contributions to the programs: succeed in milestones deliveries OQOTOC and pass related key points and reviews

• Incorporate engineering competence into projects and drive their technical orientation

• Foster synergies across the various product developments as well as a design-to-cost and design-to-manufacturing approach

• Check and drive for regular updates of the Operational Planning of the workload

• Organize and steadily improve the Visual Management

• Implement team performance measurements and visualize them on Confluence

• Perform Individual Performance Interviews and Individual Development Interviews with the team members

• Equip, train, develop and engage team members (Leadership/Engagement/Training plan)

• Drive and contribute to the improvement plan

You have the following qualifications:

• Master Degree or PhD in aerospace engineering

• More than 7 years working experience in the field of aerospace science and engineering

• Detailed knowledge in storable and cryogenic propellant flow control devices

• Extended knowledge of fluid dynamic and thermo-mechanic characteristics of Flow Control Equipment

• Extended knowledge of systems engineering & project management

• Developed leadership skills for provision of orientation and empowerment of staff featuring collaboration and trust

• Excellent coordination and communication skills

• Sound knowledge of collaborative tools and their use for agile team and project management

• Quick learning and problem solving capacity

• Fluent English skills, French & German knowledge would be a plus

• Enjoy working in an international team

• Willingness to travel on a regular basis

Are you interested?

Then we look forward to receiving your application (in English), including CV, cover letter and references, via the application button.

Few more words about our site of Ottobrunn / Taufkirchen

In Bavaria, near Munich, the Ottobrunn site is ArianeGroup’s European centre of excellence for the development and production of space engine combustion chambers for launchers or satellites. The combustion chambers for Ariane 6’s liquid propulsion engines – Vulcain 2.1 and Vinci – are built here, along with that of the Prometheus® reusable engine. The site is also a centre of excellence for 3D printing and the production of cryogenic valves.

ArianeGroup strongly believes in diversity as a key factor to strengthen innovation and collaboration.