Systems Engineer (m/f/d)

at  OHB System AG

OHB System AG – We.Create.Space
OHB System AG is one of the leading space companies in Europe. The company is part of the listed high-tech group OHB SE, which has more than 3,200 employees working on pivotal European space programs. With two strong locations in Bremen and Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich and more than 40 years of experience, OHB System AG specialises in high-tech solutions for space. These include low-orbiting and geostationary satellites for Earth observation, navigation, telecommunications, science and space exploration as well as systems for human space flight and aerial reconnaissance. We owe our success to our employees’ passion for innovation, as well as their commitment and initiative.
For permanent employment OHB System AG in Oberpfaffenhofen is looking for a
Systems Engineer (m/f/d)
for small or medium space projects in the area of microgravity research facilities in space, mainly for the ISS or the Lunar Gateway, who is capable of supporting various organizational and engineering activities.

Your Tasks

• Establish and maintain independently an effective technical project management
• Point of contact for technical communication with customers and own company’s project and line management
• Preparation of proposals, programmatic and technical documentation
• Implementation of scientific requirements in research instruments/facilities on the ISS; this includes close cooperation with scientific partners and the space agencies
• Conduction of various engineering tasks, including requirements analysis and verification, architecture and design activities, and AIT
• Support the manufacturing, assembly, and test activities as well as campaigns, including also practical / hands-on work with the space flight hardware
• Mission support activities, e.g. mission preparation, live operations support in the Ground Control Station, contribution to problem analysis and recovery, post processing of data

Your Qualifications

• University degree in aerospace engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, physics or an equivalent qualification
• Ideally several years of project engineering experience, preferably in the space domain or another industry with comparable characteristics (e.g. process driven, medium to long-term project duration, institutional clients)
• Good written and oral English as well as German language skills
• You are more a generalist than a specialist, open for new challenges, and you prefer a balanced mixture of organizational, technical and theoretical tasks
• You are motivated to work hands-on with hardware, for which laboratory or workshop experience would be a benefit
• You are a highly motivated, goal oriented team player, who is willing to take the responsibility for your own tasks
• You are able to represent your project interests towards the customer and in-house contacts

We offer
Work Life Balance: Flexible working hours, sabbatical, 30 days vacation & special leave days
Mobile Work: Hybrid work & mobile work abroad
Structured on-boarding process (incl. Assignment of a buddy in the first months)
Development: Extensive range of training courses, individual professional development, German language courses & annual employee dialogue
space projects
Additional benefits: 13. monthly salary, accident insurance & company pension plan
Catering: High standard company restaurant & generous meals subsidy
Active health promotion: Health management, E-GYM Wellpass & In-company sports groups
Family: Kindergarten subsidy / Kindergarten places, Childcare in the vacation period & paid child sickness days
Mobility: Subsidized Deutschland ticket, Job bike & parking lots
Company parties & events: Christmas party, Satellite launch events, NextGen Speakers Night
Innovation: Company suggestion system & free research and development
A complete overview of our benefits and more details can be found here on our website.
Become part of our international team and take your professional and personal development to a new level. Don’t fulfil all the requirements? No problem - we are happy to receive applications with partial matches! We are looking forward to your application in German or English via our online tool.
OHB System AG
Human Resources
Questions regarding this posting? Stefanie Feuerstein is available under career@ohb.de

• Establish and maintain independently an effective technical project management
• Point of contact for technical communication with customers and own company’s project and line management
• Preparation of proposals, programmatic and technical documentation
• Implementation of scientific requirements in research instruments/facilities on the ISS; this includes close cooperation with scientific partners and the space agencies
• Conduction of various engineering tasks, including requirements analysis and verification, architecture and design activities, and AIT
• Support the manufacturing, assembly, and test activities as well as campaigns, including also practical / hands-on work with the space flight hardware
• Mission support activities, e.g. mission preparation, live operations support in the Ground Control Station, contribution to problem analysis and recovery, post processing of dat