Jobs at Destinus Group BV

Design and develop automated production solutions and special machines for a rocket motor department. Lead automation development, assess production processes, create CAD models, drawings, BOMs, calculations, and manufacturing documentation. Collaborate with suppliers, manufacturers, and multidisciplinary engineering teams through design, integration, testing, and commissioning. Select standard components, resolve production issues, support machine handoff, and coach junior engineers and interns.

Design and develop jigs, tooling, machines, and production equipment for rocket motor research and development. Responsibilities include creating CAD models, drawings, bills of material, engineering documentation, and design analyses; evaluating production processes; managing suppliers; selecting standard components; supporting manufacturing and integration; and coaching junior engineers. The role collaborates with multidisciplinary teams and requires knowledge of machining, sheet metal, composites, assembly, metrology, and inspection.

Designs and manages cybersecurity solutions across cloud and on-premises infrastructure. The role secures Microsoft and AWS environments, implements zero-trust controls, manages SIEM, SOAR, EDR, and monitoring tools, investigates incidents, leads security projects, supports audits and compliance, and collaborates with IT and engineering teams on secure architectures and practices.

Design and optimize gas turbine components, including compressors, rotor shafts, and bearing systems. Perform thermomechanical and stress analyses, define precision tolerances, apply design-for-manufacturability principles, and collaborate with testing, materials, aerodynamics, and manufacturing teams. Produce CAD models, engineering drawings, technical reports, and design reviews for advanced propulsion systems.

Owns country-level accounting, financial close, statutory reporting, cost and inventory accounting, forecasting, controls, audit coordination, and operational finance partnering. The role ensures IFRS and local GAAP compliance, manages reconciliations and AP/AR controls, maintains product costing and variance processes, supports ERP and process improvements, and leads local finance staff while advising operations and leadership.

Deploys, scales, and maintains open-weight LLMs across cloud and local clusters. Develops integrations and automation solutions for enterprise use cases, evaluates model effectiveness, monitors emerging model releases, and embeds security and privacy into automation pipelines. Requires collaboration across technical and non-technical teams, with familiarity in LLM applications, RAG, routing, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and enterprise security. Preferred experience includes MCP, AI governance, observability, cloud platforms, Kubernetes, SLURM, and ML model evaluation.

Coordinate logistics across warehouses and manufacturing, track and resolve shipment deviations, manage supplier non-conformance, allocate logistics costs, and ensure timely deliveries and stock availability. The role also improves warehouse workflows, collaborates with purchasing, engineering, production, and suppliers, and uses ERP and transport management tools in an aerospace manufacturing environment.

Lead reliability, availability, and maintainability engineering across defense products throughout their lifecycle. Develop reliability plans, perform FMEA/FMECA, predictions, fault-tree and maintainability analyses, model RAM requirements, and oversee reliability testing. Support design reviews, sustainment, obsolescence and supplier assessments, maintenance and logistics analysis, and customer-facing technical documentation. Collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering, supply chain, test, military, and government stakeholders.

Design, simulate, optimize, characterize, and validate RF integrated circuits and MMICs using III-V and CMOS/SOI technologies. Responsibilities include schematic and layout development, electromagnetic simulations, laboratory measurements, technical documentation, and collaboration with foundries, design houses, industrial partners, and multidisciplinary engineering teams. The role also coordinates technical projects and ensures designs meet system-level requirements, quality standards, schedules, and delivery milestones.

Lead supplier industrialization from prototype through serial production for aerospace and defense hardware. Assess manufacturing processes, drive design-for-manufacture and value-engineering improvements, evaluate supplier capability and scalability, support qualification and first article inspections, and improve supplier performance. Collaborate with Engineering, Production, Quality, and Procurement to resolve manufacturing constraints and enable production ramp-up.

Supports German year-end closing by performing account reconciliations, clearing outstanding balances, preparing audit documentation, booking IFRS and HGB adjustments, investigating discrepancies, and analyzing financial variances. The role requires hands-on Microsoft Dynamics and Excel experience, country-level accounting knowledge, audit support capabilities, and the ability to independently manage accounting tasks during a six-month fixed-term contract.

Develops and maintains supplier quality strategies for aerospace and defense manufacturing. Leads supplier audits, monitors performance, manages nonconformances and corrective actions, investigates root causes, and drives process improvements. Establishes quality KPIs, supports supplier qualification, reviews FAI, FMEA, PPAP, and PQP documentation, maintains quality records, and supports customer and regulatory audits. Collaborates with procurement, engineering, and production while promoting Lean and continuous improvement initiatives.

Owns contract baselines across defence programmes, translating contractual scope, milestones, deliverables, acceptance criteria, and payment terms into executable plans. Coordinates Programme Management, Finance, Commercial, Supply Chain, Production, Engineering, Legal, and customers. Leads contract delivery negotiations, change management, milestone and payment tracking, risk mitigation, reporting, and governance routines. The role requires strong stakeholder management, technical understanding, contract interpretation, and willingness to work on-site and travel to customer and production locations.

Lead planning, execution, and continuous improvement of solid rocket motor and igniter test campaigns. Author test plans and procedures, run test readiness reviews, act as test conductor during firings, enforce safety and compliance, manage instrumentation and DAQ, investigate anomalies, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to improve test infrastructure and ensure safe, repeatable energetic system testing.

Manage daily treasury operations, including domestic and international payments, bank reconciliations, cash monitoring, transaction recording, and intercompany payments. Investigate discrepancies, maintain accurate documentation, support month-end close and financial reporting, coordinate with banks and internal teams, follow treasury controls, and improve financial processes.

Develop, validate, and improve terminal ballistic simulation models for warhead effects against hardened structures. Build and optimize computational models using CAE tools, analyze results, compare predictions with analytical and experimental data, and document methodologies. Support engineering investigations and design decisions while collaborating with the Kinetics Team on defense and aerospace systems.

Develops and validates high-fidelity 6-DoF missile simulation environments. Responsibilities include modeling flight physics, aerodynamics, propulsion, actuators, sensors, and environmental effects; integrating SIL, CIL, and HIL tools; managing simulation requirements; creating verification tests and technical documentation; and collaborating with GNC, systems engineering, software, and flight dynamics teams.

Provides hands-on office and workplace support at the Payerne location. Responsibilities include managing supplies, kitchens, meeting rooms, visitor reception, mail, desk availability, recycling, marketing materials, furniture setup, and maintenance coordination. The role also supports office management with administrative tasks and regularly checks a secondary office. Fluency in English and French, strong organization, initiative, communication skills, and basic MS Office or Google Workspace knowledge are required.

Conduct linear and nonlinear stress analysis of solid rocket motor structures, including propellant grains, bonded interfaces, thermal protection systems, and attachments. Perform thermomechanical simulations, material characterization, test correlation, and model validation using FEA and classical stress methods. Prepare stress reports, margin-of-safety calculations, and design justification documentation.

Lead system-level definition and technical development for guided effector programs. Own requirements, ConOps, subsystem interfaces, trade studies, technical risk mitigation, design reviews, integration activities, and verification and validation planning across propulsion, structures, avionics, guidance, warhead systems, and ground support equipment.