Director Production Engineering (m/f/d)

As Director of Production Engineering, you are accountable for the end-to-end production engineering capability across all manufacturing operations. Your mission is to industrialize development outputs into repeatable, scalable, and compliant serial production, ensuring manufacturing readiness, process stability, quality, cost efficiency, and on-time delivery. You lead the team that converts early procedures into robust production standards, embeds them in PLM/MES systems, and drives continuous improvement across the factory. You act as the primary interface between Engineering (design & development) and Manufacturing (production & operations)—ensuring requirements, procedures, tooling, documentation, test strategies, and digital manufacturing infrastructure are aligned for high-rate, high-quality execution.

Responsibilities

Define and execute production engineering roadmap; Lead and develop a team of production/process/manufacturing engineers; Own manufacturing process definition across assembly, integration, and test; Coordinate with development teams to convert initial procedures into production-ready standards; Drive manufacturing readiness reviews, line readiness, and process qualification; Lead first builds/pilot runs; Own production engineering contribution to PLM/MES; Ensure documentation, compliance, and quality partnership; Serve as senior escalation point for technical blockers; Support continuous improvement, cost, and throughput; Build knowledge-transfer systems

Requirements

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace, Automotive, Industrial Engineering, or similar; Significant experience in production/manufacturing engineering, industrialization, manufacturing operations—ideally across complex electromechanical systems; Proven leadership experience managing teams and cross-functional stakeholders; Strong working knowledge of PLM and/or MES, and structured manufacturing artifacts such as mBOM/BOP, routings, work instructions, and configuration control; Demonstrated ability in troubleshooting and structured problem solving (e.g., 8D, Ishikawa, 5-Why); Solid project/program management skills: prioritization, risk management, schedule ownership; Fluent English; German or other languages depending on site needs

Benefits

Employee Participation Program; 30 days of vacation; Company pension plan; Subsidised lunch; Public transport ticket; Rental clothing with laundry service; Sport Clubs membership; Individual learning allowance; Childcare allowance; And Much More!