Manufacturing Engineer (all genders)

🚀 Challenge the Impossible

About Beyond Gravity

Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, Beyond Gravity is not your typical space company. We're a unique blend of agility, speed, and innovation, fusing a start-up mindset with decades of industry expertise and a track record of 100% mission success. Our dynamic team of over 1800 professionals, spread across 14 locations in seven countries, is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of what is technically feasible. We're not just building crucial products for the satellites, launchers and semiconductor industry, we’re helping to improve life on earth.

Your Crew

Join our multidisciplinary team of 45 engineers, where you’ll develop cutting-edge launcher structures for the payloads of tomorrow. You’ll work in a multicultural environment, serving a global customer base and engaging with a broad range of technologies. Our collaborative and lean organisation fosters creativity and professional growth, supported by highly skilled experts. Here, you’ll have the opportunity to outperform yourself and learn something new every day, as each day brings unique chances to go Beyond.

Your Mission

• Support in his engineering field during product development, production support and project. Conduct relevant Manufacturing Engineering task with or without supervision.
• Provide daily support to manufacturing operations and related support teams in order to assure technically correct manufacturing and product flow, thereby assuring the necessary quality, OTD, and production costs
• Work cross-functionally with operations, quality, design engineering, and other teams to define manufacturing work instructions, equipment, tools, materials, and training
• Establish standard work practices across manufacturing and eliminate waste to increase productivity
• Develop and verify new jigs, tooling, equipment, parts, and processes to meet requirements
• Lead automatization activities to ramp-up manufacturing capability
• Support processes and product continuous improvements to deliver in line with customer quality, cost, and demand.
• Utilize project management techniques / tools to meet cost, technical, and schedule requirements.
• Write technical documentation, project related deliverable and other specifications related to his field of work.
• Work package / Task Manager. Report to technical lead budget and milestone. Raise awareness on risk and blocking points.
• Participate in NRBs (Non-Conformance Review Board) according to the NC process. Secure measures for root cause analyses, corrective and preventive measures
• Proactively support and coach the production technicians through frontline support utilizing an integrated project team approach; provide training material (both software and hardware) as needed. Coach interns/students.
• Work with international colleagues in order to evaluate, improve, and transfer latest state processes and maintain standardization across the company portfolio

Your Story:

Must’s:

• Master’s degree in Material Science, Mechanical or Aerospace engineering.
• Min 3 years of company relevant experience.
• Demonstrates insight into quality and safety standards including AS9100 and OSHA or similar
• Previously worked with composite, metallic, and non-metallic materials
• German and English at proficient business level
• Experience with Automation
• Nice to have’s:
• Space or Aerospace experience
• Knowledge of sandwich constructions (lightweight design)
• Production line leadership experience and hands on mentality
• Lean Manufacturing / Six Sigma knowledge/experience; experience with SAP or other ERP, MS Office
• Experience with MES, CAD and other relevant complex software

Why Beyond Gravity

• Work in an international environment with global mindset and high-tech products that will fly into space
• A highly specialized and motivated team with a lot of know-how in a unique industry
• We live a hands-on mentality and take suggestions for improvement seriously
• Attractive employment conditions (contribution to public transport, trainings and development opportunities, full paid maternity/paternity leave and many more)
• Flexible and mobile working and at least 5 weeks of vacation with possibility to buy additional vacation

🌌Are you ready for lift-off?

Our core values - Passionate, Together, and Curious - transform challenges into opportunities. Embark on a journey to transcend the ordinary with us. Propel your career to new heights by applying before 20/12/2024. We‘re actively reviewing candidates and will promptly select the ideal fit for our team.

For questions regarding the position, please contact: Bastien Monnier | | E-Mail schreiben

For questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact: Stefan Hunger | | E-Mail schreiben

Beyond Gravity is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome and encourage applications from all qualified individuals, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected categories.

Applications by e-mail cannot be considered. We do not accept dossiers from recruitment agencies for this position.

Zürich Flughafen, ZH, CH