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Head of Project Engineering(m/w/x)
Overseeing design freezes and pilot series for high-tech scientific instruments. Proven people leadership and structured problem-solving skills required. Iterative improvement loops and Six Sigma background.
Requirements
- Strong experience with high-tech products
- Proven people leadership and team coordination
- Highly organised, structured, and pragmatic problem-solver
- Strong understanding of quality, compliance, release, and industrialisation processes
- Background or training in Six Sigma, quality management, or similar methodologies
- Experience working towards or within ISO-compliant environments
- Ability to balance requirements with excellent product delivery
- Confident communicator operating between engineering and organisation
- Strong project management skills
- Willingness to attend training and develop expertise in ISO, compliance, and quality
Tasks
- Lead and develop the Product Engineering team
- Manage Product Engineering processes
- Conduct design freezes
- Oversee pilot series
- Implement iterative improvement loops
- Enforce process freezes and volume gates
- Coordinate with R&D, Operations, Supply Chain, and Product Management
- Clarify technical issues
- Prioritize tasks and resources
- Ensure delivery against timelines and cost targets
- Communicate transparently on technical feasibility, risks, timelines, and costs
- Manage BOM and continuous improvement
- Drive product improvements after process freeze
- Identify and close process gaps between R&D and Operations
- Oversee SCS solution realization
- Coordinate technical planning, construction, and production
- Facilitate lessons-learned sessions
- Contribute to ERP and PLM development
- Support modularisation and variant management
- Digitize technical processes and workflows
- Manage change and improvement processes
- Coordinate compliance activities for new products
- Handle compliance challenges and escalations
- Maintain compliance documentation
- Support CE and EMC/EMV activities
- Coordinate contributions from other departments
- Interface with compliance experts
- Support external compliance sign-off
- Ensure internal production quality standards
- Establish systems for test and measurement data
- Support production in quality issues
- Interface with ISO responsible person
- Support process mapping and version control
- Close R&D process gaps in line with ISO requirements
- Complete documentation gaps in Product Engineering
- Coordinate documentation closure across R&D
Work Experience
- approx. 1 - 4 years
Education
- Bachelor's degreeOR
- Master's degree
Languages
- English – Business Fluent
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Overseeing design freezes and pilot series for high-tech scientific instruments. Proven people leadership and structured problem-solving skills required. Iterative improvement loops and Six Sigma background.
Requirements
- Strong experience with high-tech products
- Proven people leadership and team coordination
- Highly organised, structured, and pragmatic problem-solver
- Strong understanding of quality, compliance, release, and industrialisation processes
- Background or training in Six Sigma, quality management, or similar methodologies
- Experience working towards or within ISO-compliant environments
- Ability to balance requirements with excellent product delivery
- Confident communicator operating between engineering and organisation
- Strong project management skills
- Willingness to attend training and develop expertise in ISO, compliance, and quality
Tasks
- Lead and develop the Product Engineering team
- Manage Product Engineering processes
- Conduct design freezes
- Oversee pilot series
- Implement iterative improvement loops
- Enforce process freezes and volume gates
- Coordinate with R&D, Operations, Supply Chain, and Product Management
- Clarify technical issues
- Prioritize tasks and resources
- Ensure delivery against timelines and cost targets
- Communicate transparently on technical feasibility, risks, timelines, and costs
- Manage BOM and continuous improvement
- Drive product improvements after process freeze
- Identify and close process gaps between R&D and Operations
- Oversee SCS solution realization
- Coordinate technical planning, construction, and production
- Facilitate lessons-learned sessions
- Contribute to ERP and PLM development
- Support modularisation and variant management
- Digitize technical processes and workflows
- Manage change and improvement processes
- Coordinate compliance activities for new products
- Handle compliance challenges and escalations
- Maintain compliance documentation
- Support CE and EMC/EMV activities
- Coordinate contributions from other departments
- Interface with compliance experts
- Support external compliance sign-off
- Ensure internal production quality standards
- Establish systems for test and measurement data
- Support production in quality issues
- Interface with ISO responsible person
- Support process mapping and version control
- Close R&D process gaps in line with ISO requirements
- Complete documentation gaps in Product Engineering
- Coordinate documentation closure across R&D
Work Experience
- approx. 1 - 4 years
Education
- Bachelor's degreeOR
- Master's degree
Languages
- English – Business Fluent
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About the Company
Oxford Instruments GmbH
Industry
Science
Description
The company manages Electron Microscopy and Mechanical Microscopy products, helping customers address 21st-century challenges.
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