AIT Lead (f/m/d) Verified today
About Rocket Factory Augsburg
Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) builds small launch vehicles designed to deploy satellites into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and beyond. Our goal is to create low-cost, flexible, and reliable access to space.
The Role
As AIT (Assembly, Integration & Testing) Lead, you will transform engineering designs into flight-ready hardware. Working at the intersection of manufacturing, engineering, logistics, and quality, you will lead a team responsible for assembling and integrating critical vehicle stages and systems.
Your Responsibilities
- Lead the assembly and integration of vehicle stages, subsystems, and associated hardware, ensuring work is completed safely, efficiently, and according to schedule.
- Coordinate daily workshop activities by assigning tasks, managing resources, and monitoring team performance to meet production milestones.
- Act as the primary interface between engineering and production teams, ensuring smooth communication and implementation of design updates.
- Develop and support assembly technicians through training, mentoring, and maintenance of competency and training matrices.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives by identifying process enhancements, supporting quality control activities, and facilitating feedback loops between workshop and design teams.
- Collaborate with procurement and logistics teams to ensure materials, components, and equipment are available, tested, and ready for integration activities.
- Support assembly, integration, testing, equipment maintenance, health & safety compliance, and production reporting activities.
Required Skills
- Demonstrated experience leading assembly, integration, manufacturing, or production activities in a complex technical environment.
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to organize teams, prioritize work, and deliver against production schedules.
- Excellent hands-on mechanical assembly skills and the ability to troubleshoot technical issues on the shop floor.
- Experience working with manufacturing equipment, workshop machinery, tools, and assembly processes.
- Ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, production, quality, logistics, and supply chain functions.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive, results-oriented mindset.
- Working knowledge of health, safety, and quality management practices within a production environment.
- Clear communication skills with the ability to convey technical information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Desirable Experience
- Experience in aerospace, launch vehicles, satellites, aviation, automotive, or other highly regulated industries.
- Knowledge of assembly documentation, work instructions, assembly travelers, and configuration control processes.
- Experience implementing Lean Manufacturing, TPM (Total Productive Maintenance), Six Sigma, or comparable continuous improvement methodologies.
- Previous responsibility for technician training programs and competency management.
- Experience supporting integration campaigns or testing activities.
- Willingness to travel occasionally to the launch site on Unst, Shetland Islands (UK).
What We Offer
- Flexible working hours and one day per week home office for full-time employees.
- 30 days annual leave and special leave days.
- EGYM Wellpass health and fitness access.
- Free parking for cars and bikes.
- Regular company and team events.
- International, dynamic New Space environment with 300+ colleagues from over 40 countries.