Public summary
Join a leading aerospace manufacturing company operating facilities in Germany and Texas as a Quality Manager. This role involves building and maintaining ISO 9001-compliant Quality Management Systems at both sites, driving pragmatic quality processes, managing audits, implementing risk management, and digitizing quality workflows. The position requires 3-5+ years experience in manufacturing quality management, a technical degree, hands-on ISO 9001 expertise, and fluent English. German language skills are a plus but not required. The company offers a dynamic work environment focused on space hardware innovation, professional growth opportunities, and a collaborative culture.
Location and work setup
- Location
- Garching bei München, Taufkirchen
- Remote status
- On-site
- German requirement signal
- No German Required Detected
- Detected job language
- English
Responsibilities
Own and maintain ISO 9001 certification at sites in Germany and Texas. Prepare and lead internal, certification, and customer audits ensuring successful outcomes. Define and implement sustainable quality processes for development, manufacturing and management use. Develop meaningful KPIs and management reviews to enhance visibility and decision-making. Establish and manage a comprehensive risk management system across organizational, process and product levels with clear mitigation ownership. Lead the digital transformation of the QMS platform ensuring full organization-wide adoption.
Qualifications
3-5+ years of quality management experience in a manufacturing environment with hands-on shop floor exposure. A degree in a technical discipline such as aerospace or mechanical engineering. Relevant further training in quality management with direct experience managing ISO 9001 audit cycles and processes end-to-end. A pragmatic mindset valuing usable, scalable processes over bureaucratic compliance. Strong ownership, leadership, and communication skills across company levels. Fluent English required; German language skills advantageous but not mandatory.