Our Mission - to fly to space twice in a day.

This is a substantial, complex project. To be successful in this position you must have a balance of technical mechanical/structural engineering understanding and leadership skills. You must take on an extreme ownership approach to ensure the team meets deliverables successfully. You must be able to communicate clearly and collaborate with the other Team Leads, Lead Engineer and Stakeholders to ensure integration between systems is seamless. As the airframe is constructed predominantly of composite materials, experience in this field is expected. Additionally, aviation, space or other high-performance engineering experience is required.

You will help your team be their best by fostering a culture and environment of ambition, creativity, discipline, empowerment and cooperation. You understand your stakeholders and frequently work closely with them to ensure alignment.

You will take ownership and accountability for your team's performance and together with your team, you will build an epic airframe! You will be at you best when you are proactive in figuring how to exceed expectations.

Are you driven, organised and able to work with a wide variety of people? Do you have a 'can do' attitude, are you flexible and adaptable, but will stay within appropriate processes and procedures? Then this role could be for you!

You will be:

• Responsible for resource management to design, build, organize and manage a high-performance Airframe design and production team.
• Provide (technical) leadership and guidance to the team members.
• Ensure all required documentation is being completed
• Support when needed in design, production and test activities.
• Collaborate with other Team Leads and Project Managers to ensure all design and production data is accurate and complete.
• Setting up the framework for the start of a new project.
• Project management: Budgeting, Scheduling of design and production work.
• Supervising and checking structural work.
• Detailing out interfaces between the sub-teams of the spaceplane.
• Release and approval of designs.

Looking for more information or if you think you have what it takes, have a look at our Careers page: www.dawnaerospace.com/culture

Requirements

What you will bring

• An advanced qualification in Aerospace, Mechanical Engineering, Physics or similar.
• A wealth of proven experience in project management and leading team activities on highly complex systems such as aircrafts, spacecrafts, cars, autonomous vehicles, or military equipment.
• Working experience on systems engineering of complex system.
• Structural design experience, in particular for lightweight structures.
• Demonstrated ability to organize, lead, mentor and grow engineering staff, overseeing workload and setting priorities.
• Experience in translating long-term goals into action plans.
• A real team player with strong interpersonal skills and a strong quality orientation.
• A dedication to achieving results on time.

It would be great if you are:

• Familiar with aircraft design standard.
• Experienced in CAD, preferably SolidWorks.
• Experienced with composites and metallic structures in the areas of design, FEA, and manufacturing.

About Dawn Aerospace

Our mission is to accelerate the next generation of space users with scalable and sustainable ways to deliver the things they care about from Earth to Space, and from Space to everywhere else. We’re building a spaceplane, a cutting-edge launch vehicle that combines the performance of a rocket with the rapid reusability and economic model of an aircraft. We’re also the fastest-growing supplier of green propulsion systems for satellites in the world. Our turnkey systems manoeuvre satellites in space and deorbit them at the end of their lifetimes.

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Important!

For security reasons background checks will be undertaken prior to any employment offers being made to an applicant. These checks will include nationality checks as it is a requirement of this position that you be eligible to access export-controlled information.

If you think you have what it takes, but are unsure that you check every box, we still want to hear from you.