# Production Engineer - Mechatronic Systems

**Company**: Helsing
**Location**: Munich
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Aerospace & Defence

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## Description

## Job Overview

The Production Engineer in the mechatronic systems area plays a crucial role in optimising production processes, ensuring the highest standards of quality, efficiency, and compliance for mechatronic systems, assemblies, and components.

## Responsibilities

- Develop, evaluate, and continuously improve manufacturing processes to enhance efficiency, quality, and cost-effectiveness.

- Design and implement manufacturing tools, equipment, and procedures, ensuring optimal workflow and equipment layout.

- Collaborate closely with design, production, and quality teams to ensure the manufacturability of new products and adherence to specifications.

- Support new product introductions (NPI) by developing production plans and assisting with prototypes.

- Analyse production data to identify trends, address issues, and recommend process improvements.

- Conduct root cause analysis for manufacturing issues and implement effective corrective actions to prevent recurrence.

- Ensure strict compliance with aerospace industry standards, safety regulations, and quality management systems (e.g., AS9100).

- Prepare and maintain detailed manufacturing documentation, including work instructions, routings, process specifications, and technical reports.

- Apply Lean Manufacturing principles and Six Sigma methodologies to eliminate waste, improve productivity, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.

- Provide technical guidance and support to the production team.

## Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in Manufacturing Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a closely related field from an accredited institution.

- 4+ years of experience in manufacturing engineering, preferably within the aerospace or defense industry.

- Proficiency with CAD software (e.g., SolidWorks, CATIA, NX, Inventor) for designing and modifying parts and assemblies, and creating detailed 3D models and technical drawings.

- Strong understanding of aerospace materials and processes, including composite materials and CNC machinery.

- Knowledge of quality control standards, including statistical process control and inspection techniques.

- Excellent problem-solving skills with an analytical mindset and attention to detail.

- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate across departments and document processes.

- Familiarity with data analysis tools and manufacturing execution systems (MES).

## Benefits

- A focus on outcomes, not time-tracking

- Competitive compensation and stock options

- Relocation support

- Social and education allowances

- Regular company events and all-hands to bring together employees as one team across Europe

- A hands-on onboarding program (affectionately labelled “Infraduction”), in which you will be building tooling and applications to be used across the company.

## Why Join Helsing?

- Helsing’s work is important. You’ll be directly contributing to the protection of democratic countries while balancing both ethical and geopolitical concerns.

- The work is unique. We operate in a domain that has highly unusual technical requirements and constraints, and where robustness, safety, and ethical considerations are vital.

- Our work frequently takes us right up to the state of the art in technical innovation, be it reinforcement learning, distributed systems, generative AI, or deployment infrastructure.

## Skills

### Required
- Manufacturing Engineering
- Aerospace Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- CAD software
- Lean Manufacturing
- Six Sigma

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