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Project Manager

SWISSto12 is one of the world’s fastest-growing aerospace companies, evolving from its pioneering use of 3D printing technologies for high-performance Radio Frequency (RF) products and applications to recently announcing the manufacture of entire geostationary telecom satellites, called HummingSat, that define a new category in space.

SWISSto12 is a leading provider of Radio-Frequency (RF) products and sub-systems for aerospace applications. The company’s patented 3D printing technologies and associated product designs are unique to deliver lightweight, compact, highly performing, and competitive RF products.

SWISSto12 is also providing the HummingSat as the world’s first commercial telecom GEO SmallSat developed in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA). Its uniquely compact size combined with highly capable telecom payloads allows telecommunications operators to deploy a cost-efficient, compact and agile asset without sacrificing performance or security. HummingSat has recently been selected by Inmarsat to build three I-8 satellites and in 2022 by Intelsat to build the I-45 satellite.

If you are looking for position where you can play an active role in contributing to innovative and growing company, this role is for you.

We are recruiting an experienced project manager to lead customer projects for the development, industrialization and larger-scale delivery of antenna systems. The position will operate from SWISSto12’s office in Renens, Switzerland.

In this role, you will be responsible for the following:

  • Lead all phases of the project – from initiation through production ramp-up, industrialisation and large-scale delivery of the product to the customer.
  • Hold accountability for program success on key parameters: customer satisfaction, technical performance compliance, on time delivery, on quality delivery, project financial performance.
  • Act as a customer point of contact for program activities, including feedback, interactions, and improvements.
  • Work in close cooperation with the customer to ensure contractual compliance and a shared understanding of the project execution.
  • Define with the project team the product development plan, prioritize the activities in order to ensure the most valuable and proper functionality of the product deliverable.
  • Drive the industrialization phase of the product, adjust product design, and define processes to enable highly repeatable and cost-efficient volume production.
  • Lead the partners and major suppliers including reviews and deliverables.
  • Maintain & track the program’s requirements and the change order process.
  • Apply state-of-the art project management and engineering processes throughout design, manufacturing, assembly, integration, and testing.
  • Perform risk and opportunity management and provide leadership and direction to the continual risk management process.
  • Be responsible for the program documentation and commissioning processes.
  • Travel as needed.
  • Occasionally, you will be asked to participate in overall tasks and services inherent to a dynamic fast-growing company.

Required experience and competencies:

  • Extensive experience as a project manager or system engineer in a high-tech hardware product industry, ideally for 7 years or more.
  • Curious and creative in approaching cutting edge products in the aeronautics, space and defense industries.
  • Excellent customer focus with experience managing customers and supplier interfaces.
  • Demonstrated ability to work with a team on resolving complex technical problems and complex management activities.
  • Excellent communication skills and ease at working across different cultures and different levels of an organization.
  • Proven ability to write clear technical, quality and management documents.
  • Engineering degree in a technically pertinent domain: electrical or aerospace engineering or physics or mechanical/materials engineering
  • Experience in system engineering and product industrialization.
  • Language: Fluent English is a prerequisite, skills in French are a plus
  • Experience in the delivery of aerospace complex products or systems is a plus.
  • A background in RF technologies communication systems is a plus.
  • A good knowledge of precision mechanical production and material engineering is a plus.

Interested applicants are requested to apply through LinkedIn

Working conditions and contract:

SWISSto12 offers a full-time contract with an attractive compensation package.