Senior Technical Lead - Battery Manufacturing

A career at Lilium is for those who want to do something extraordinary. We take pride in pushing the boundaries of engineering, technology and customer experience.

As part of a team, you will tackle challenges and deliver something that has never been done before. By joining Lilium you will have the opportunity to work with a world-class entrepreneurial team of more than 950 people who are as passionate about changing the world as you are.

You will always act with safety and integrity in mind and embody our core behaviors of efficient and positive collaboration, ownership of time, continuous improvements and, ultimately delivering results.

We thrive on diversity and creating an inclusive culture, with more than 50 nationalities currently working hard to bring our vision of a sustainable world to life.

Are you ready to be at the forefront of revolutionizing air mobility? As we embark on the exciting journey towards serial production of our ground-breaking Lilium jet, we have an opportunity for a manufacturing leader with advanced experience in energy (battery) manufacture, to take on a critical role in our team!

Your role and your team:

As the primary manufacturing engineering (ME) expert, you will be the technical voice of the ME product team, specialised in energy/battery manufacturing. Building strong relationships with the Manufacturing and Engineering Leadership organization and acting as the primary interface for our Technical Leads and IPTs, reporting operationally to the Head of Industrial. You will be a key member of the Manufacturing Engineering Leaders community.

The subject matter expert (SME) during trade-off discussions and decision-making sessions about manufacturability, considering scalability, material, methods, and costs. Representing the manufacturing community technically, you will confidently handle escalations and conflicts of interest to promote good manufacturing engineering practices and secure product Design for Manufacture/Assembly.

Your Day to Day:

• Represent MEs and production in daily stand-ups and priority meetings.
• Drive capability acquisition of new technologies, systems, and factories to establish a state-of-the-art manufacturing process
• Actively contribute to design reviews and production readiness for new product introduction.
• Mentor your teammates as the resident expert for a variety of manufacturing processes.
• Ensure technology development demonstrator roadmaps include manufacturing feasibility trials during design development

Your Profile:

We are looking for a highly experienced manufacturing engineering specialist with a proven ability to lead both people, and technical decision making. Demonstrating technical credibility and deep expertise in energy/battery production (preferably from aerospace or automotive manufacturing), you will bring a pragmatic and decisive approach to complex situations.

Demonstrated deep involvement in 2 or more high-impact programs from start of design, through ramp-up, to post production is essential.

A strong collaborator with proven decision-making and conflict resolution experience, adept at managing cross-functional relationships with teams like Design Engineering, Quality, Program Management, Procurement and navigating competing priorities.

Key Requirements:

• Minimum 10+ years product (not process or assembly) manufacturing engineering experience in batteries / energy.
• Relevant Bachelors degree.
• Excellent analytical capabilities with a drive to challenge the status quo. Eager to learn; puts the team first; resilient with a passion for achieving mission objectives. Accustomed to using failure as a learning tool and applying a high sense of urgency
• Hands-on mentality and heavy collaboration with production teams to secure continuous production flow

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Life at Lilium:

The wellbeing of our employees is a high priority. In our HQ we have many initiatives such as free healthy food and drinks, free in-house gym and health days. In remote offices we offer online opportunities to stay connected and develop yourself as well including our culture club, learning terminal, Employee Assistance Program and many more.

Lilium is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all qualified individuals regardless of ethnicity, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.