Senior Manufacturing Engineer – Assembly

Responsibilities

We are representing a confidential defence technology client based in Munich. In this senior role, you will define and own the end-to-end assembly process from raw material to final acceptance for complex hardware systems.

You will author the MBOM, Bill of Process, and Bill of Equipment, including routings, cycle times, and takt. You'll design the factory footprint—cells, workstations, flow, tooling, and labour requirements.

A core responsibility is reviewing and formally approving engineering designs for manufacturability and ease of assembly. You'll check tolerancing and interface management to identify stack-up, fit, and interface risks before they reach the production floor.

You will apply Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) principles to drive out cost and risk, focusing on assembly sequence and access, ergonomics, tolerancing for process capability, standardisation, and error-proofing (poka-yoke).

You'll author SOPs and assembly work instructions to AS9100 standards, embedding PFMEA-driven controls and the control plans and quality gates defined by Quality Engineering.

You will specify, design, and source tooling and equipment, leading international vendors and integrators for supply. You'll run FAT/SAT to validate equipment prior to acceptance.

Hands-on support for prototype and first builds is expected, as well as supporting First Article Inspection (AS9102) with Quality. You'll drive the ramp from first builds to steady state, improving yield, cycle time, and line balance.

You will define a scalable manufacturing blueprint from first-build learning that can be replicated and adapted for future sites, and own the manufacturing data in Siemens Teamcenter—managing MBOM/EBOM alignment and change management.

As the organization scales, you will build and lead a growing team of manufacturing engineers.

What We're Looking For

Our client seeks a Senior Manufacturing or Assembly Engineer who has industrialised complex, high-consequence hardware—ideally in aerospace, defence, or another high-performance environment under significant time pressure.

Essential skills and experience:

• Genuine greenfield/0-to-1 NPI experience—you have taken designs into production, not only maintained a running line
• Strong fundamentals: process design, Design for Assembly, tolerancing and interfaces, line balancing, and tooling
• Technical integrator profile—deep enough to be credible, broad enough to connect design, process, quality, and supply
• Comfortable across levels of abstraction, from detailed process to factory system
• Effective at managing vendors and suppliers against demanding timelines
• Hands-on approach, willing to support build, integration, and test when required
• Decisive in ambiguity—able to anticipate, test, reconsider, and maintain momentum
• Pragmatic and delivery-focused, making sound engineering trade-offs without over-engineering
• Experience with digital manufacturing tools and PLM, ideally Siemens Teamcenter
• Willing and able to travel internationally, primarily between Germany and UK sites, and to suppliers and integrators as required

Desirable experience:

• CAD proficiency (ideally Siemens NX) to create tooling designs and concepts, build 3D assembly-line layouts, and validate reachability, tool and hand access, and ergonomics
• AS9100 environment experience, or having stood up an AS9100-aligned function
• Lean/continuous improvement track record
• Awareness of export control (ITAR/EAR or equivalents) in a defence context
• Prior line-management experience

How We Work With You

Candidates apply through Get A Job.ai. Our recruiting team will conduct an initial screening to understand your background and fit for this role. We then submit qualified candidates to our client for consideration.

Please do not contact the client directly. All communications and coordination will be managed through our talent team to ensure a smooth process for everyone involved.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process based on experience and qualifications.

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