Your Tasks

Define the payload scope in close coordination with the customer, overall Project Manager, and company leadership, ensuring full alignment before execution
Approve and maintain the requirements baseline, ensuring all developed, manufactured, tested, and delivered items meet the agreed technical specifications
Define, implement end execute the project schedule and cost baseline for the payload setup and take full ownership of delivering the subproject on time and within budget
Plan, secure, and balance internal resources, ensuring that skills and capacity match workload demands, and escalate any gaps or risks early
Establish the team structure, assign clear ownership of milestones and deliverables, and lead both internal progress reviews and joint reviews with the prime contractor and customer
Ensure effective cross-functional execution (mechanical, electrical, software, AIT, quality, supply chain etc.) through clear work orders, defined interfaces, and seamless handovers
Monitor and control of technical maturity, schedule, cost, and quality, proactively managing risks and issues, and implementing recovery plans when required
Provide regular, concise status updates, forecasts, and risk assessments to stakeholders, maintaining up-to-date minutes of meetings, action logs, and dashboards
Control configuration and baselines, evaluating and approving any change with impact on scope, cost, or schedule

Your Qualifications

Studies in a relevant engineering discipline (degree in aerospace technology or comparable qualification)
Technical and methodological competence in project management methods and several years of relevant practical experience as a project manager (m/f/d) or subcontractor manager (m/f/d) of complex subcontracts
Proven skills in professional and ideally also disciplinary team leadership
Very good understanding of the relevant standards and processes
Very good economic understanding and high ability to balance and prioritize between quality, costs and schedule
Very good communication skills, negotiation skills, decision-making skills and conflict resolution skills
Strong skills in motivation, delegation, knowledge transfer and network building
Very good analytical skills and presentation skills
High willingness to travel

Subproject Manager (m/f/d)