Team Lead - Flight Test Engineers (m/f/d)

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Bruchsal, Baden-Württemberg
Expert/Leader
Aerospace • Software
The Role
The Team Lead - Flight Test Engineers will manage flight testing teams, ensuring schedules, budgets, and quality standards are met while providing guidance and leadership. The role requires collaboration with other teams and adherence to FTOM processes, along with the pursuit of continuous improvements in flight test operations.
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Company Description

Here at Volocopter, we are the pioneers of electric air taxis (electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft - eVTOLs). We have pledged to bring sustainable urban air mobility to life by getting electric air taxis off the ground in a way that complements existing transportation options in megacities across the globe. In 2011 we carried out the first-ever crewed flight of a fully electric multicopter and have since conducted more than 2,000 public and private test flights across the world (www.volocopter.com).

Job Description

Your mission during this flight:

  • Ensure deliveries of team in time/cost/quality
  • Manage Team resources with people and assigned budget responsibility
  • Provide disciplinary leadership to team members (including resourcing, development, performance management, recognition, and reward)
  • Provides day-to-day guidance, coaching & feedback to the team
  • Ensure high clarity and spirit within the team
  • Plan and manage team capacity according to project needs
  • Collaborate closely with other Team Leads and Head of Departments to guarantee best results
  • Seek opportunities to introduce continued improvements to the flight test process
  • Ensure team always adheres to FTOM processes and procedures

Qualifications

Check in your professional skills:

Experience in Flight Testing is absolutely crucial for this role!

  • MSc, PhD or equivalent degree in aeronautical engineering
  • 10+ Years of experience in Crewed Flight Test (Excluding UAV)
  • EASA Category 1 FTE Certification or equivalent experience (Must have).
  • Experience in the aeronautical development and certification process
  • Professional experience working for an OEM, MRO, Military Aviation, or Flight Test Organization
  • Proven leadership experience

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Rotary wing experience

Additional Information

Our Volocopter flight includes:

  • Fast-growing high-tech company with a superb network of investors and partners
  • Chance to shape the future of aviation
  • Help us to create groundbreaking new projects - from scratch!
  • Personal accountability, as well as growth and learning opportunities, based on your personal strengths
  • An inspiring workplace with modern workspaces, flexible hours, quick decision-making, a flat hierarchy, positive leadership, great team spirit
  • Attractive compensation package

Diversity at Volocopter:

Our differences are what make us great. Here at Volocopter, we value equal opportunities and trust. As air mobility industry innovators, we believe that changing the world starts on team level. We are committed to fostering an environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to reach their full potential.

Top Skills

Aeronautical Engineering
The Company
HQ: Baden-Wurttemberg
595 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2011

What We Do

Volocopter brings urban air mobility (UAM) to megacities worldwide. We aim to improve the quality of life for people in cities by offering a fantastic new mode of transportation. For that, we create sustainable and scalable UAM ecosystems with partners in infrastructure and operations.  

Volocopter will offer passengers swift, secure, and emission-free connections to their destinations, supported by VoloIQ, the UAM ecosystem’s software platform that serves as its digital backbone for safe and efficient operations.  

As a pioneer in the UAM industry, Volocopter will launch commercial services within the next year. Founded in 2011, the company employs more than 500 people in Germany and Singapore, has completed over 2,000 successful public and private test flights, and raised more than $600 million in equity from investors, including, Mercedes-Benz Group, Sumitomo Corporation, Japan Airlines, Tokyo Century, and NTT Communications, and BlackRock www.volocopter.com 


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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: https://www.volocopter.com/en/diversity-equity-and_inclusion

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