Manager Quality Assurance & Quality Engineering (m/f/d)

Mission Brief
As Manager Quality Assurance & Quality Engineering, you are accountable for translating the company quality strategy into effective governance, measurable objectives, and consistent execution across the organization. You will provide independent quality leadership, ensure customer and certification requirements are embedded into business processes, and maintain clear visibility of organizational quality performance.
This role is not limited to maintaining procedures or reacting to non-conformances. It is about building a prevention-focused quality system, strengthening engineering and operational decision-making, and ensuring the organization remains ready for customer, regulatory, and certification scrutiny as products and production scale.
Your Role in Our Space Mission:
Implement and continuously develop the company quality strategy in alignment with business, product, and operational priorities.
Lead the Quality Assurance and Quality Engineering function, establishing clear ownership, priorities, standards, and development plans.
Define, deploy, and monitor quality objectives, KPIs, and improvement targets across the organization.
Prepare and facilitate management reviews, ensuring quality performance, risks, trends, and required decisions are clearly presented and followed through.
Own customer quality governance, including quality requirements, customer interfaces, escalations, reporting, and the coordination of customer quality reviews.
Act as the primary quality interface to certification bodies and coordinate certification, surveillance, and recertification activities.
Establish quality planning and assurance approaches for products, projects, processes, and organizational changes.
Provide Quality Engineering leadership for risk prevention, including FMEA, control plans, process capability, measurement strategy, and verification planning.
Govern non-conformance, corrective action, and preventive action processes, ensuring root causes are addressed and actions are effective.
Drive cross-functional resolution of systemic quality issues and ensure lessons learned are translated into standards and preventive controls.
Monitor organizational quality performance and provide transparent reporting to senior leadership on compliance, customer quality, product quality, and improvement priorities.
Partner with Product Assurance, Supplier Quality, Production, Engineering, and the Chief Quality Inspector organization to ensure clear interfaces and end-to-end quality governance.
Qualification Checklist
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Quality Management, Manufacturing, or a related technical discipline.
Significant experience in Quality Assurance, Quality Engineering, Product Quality, or Quality Management within aerospace, space, defence, automotive, or another highly regulated engineering environment.
Proven leadership experience managing quality teams and influencing cross-functional organizations.
Strong knowledge of EN 9100 / AS9100, ISO 9001, and risk-based quality management principles; familiarity with ECSS requirements is advantageous.
Experience working with customers, certification bodies, auditors, and senior management on quality performance and compliance topics.
Practical knowledge of quality planning, FMEA, control plans, process capability, root cause analysis, corrective action, and structured problem-solving methods.
Experience defining quality objectives, management review inputs, KPIs, and organizational quality performance reporting.
Ability to balance independent assurance with pragmatic support for engineering and manufacturing execution.
Strong stakeholder management skills with the confidence to challenge decisions, escalate risks, and drive accountability.
Clear, concise communication and professional proficiency in English; German language skills are advantageous.
Aim high, deliver relentlessly, act with integrity, and keep the mission first.
Benefits
Employee Participation Program: Share in our success through our virtual company share program
30 days of vacation: Enjoy the days off to relax and recharge
Company pension plan: Secure your future with our company pension plan, featuring a 20% employer contribution after the probation period
Subsidised lunch: Stay energised with delicious, subsidised lunches every day
Flexible mobility budget: Travel your way with a choice between a fully financed Deutschlandticket, JobRad bicycle leasing, FINN JobAuto, or a fuel allowance
Rental clothing with laundry service: Enjoy hassle-free workwear with our convenient rental clothing and laundry service
Sport Clubs membership: Stay fit with our sponsored sports club memberships (EGYM Wellpass)
Individual learning allowance: Grow your skills with an individual learning budget granted after the probation period
Childcare allowance: Receive a childcare allowance for your non-school-age children
And Much More! Discover additional perks and benefits when you join our team.
Who we are
We are Isar Aerospace and we are at the forefront of New Space building a modern space business to enable faster, better and cheaper access to space.
Our mission is to help democratise space and use it for good in order to improve life on Earth now and for the future generations.
We are a fast-growing company aiming to provide sustainable and environmentally friendly launch solutions for small and medium-sized satellites and constellations into Low Earth Orbit. The company is privately funded by world-leading technology investors with strong commitment and support and our team is made of driven and talented people with a real passion for space innovation.
We're making rockets in a way that hasn't been done before disrupting a traditional industry. If you are up for the challenge, want to work on cutting-edge projects and be part of a team changing the world for better, come, join us and launch your career!
Want to find out more about us?
Visit www.isaraerospace.com
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Disclaimer
Isar Aerospace SE is an equal-opportunity employer committed to fairness and inclusivity. We do not prioritize any specific religion, gender, nationality, or background. Due to security clearance requirements, affiliations with countries listed under § 13 para. 1 no. 17 SÜG may affect the application process. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply.