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Rocket Factory Augsburg

Low-cost microlauncher for small satellites

Head of Quality

Validation, Compliance & Quality SystemsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeAugsburg, GermanyNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • Several years of professional experience in senior quality-management roles within a regulated, technologically demanding industrial environment.
  • Expertise in building, implementing, and developing quality management systems in technically demanding industrial environments.
  • A proven track record of developing quality strategies and translating them into operational processes.
  • Comprehensive understanding of quality methods, quality metrics, risk analyses, and continuous improvement processes.
  • Experience leading and developing teams and collaborating across engineering, production, and project organizations.
  • Strong knowledge of relevant standards, regulatory requirements, and audit processes in regulated industries.
  • Strong analytical skills and a structured, solution-oriented approach.
  • Strong communication and influencing skills, and the ability to foster a quality-oriented corporate culture.
  • Business-fluent German and English, spoken and written.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement a company-wide quality strategy to standardize and continuously improve complex manufacturing and integration processes.
  • Lead and develop the quality department both professionally and disciplinarily, and foster a sustainable quality culture throughout the company.
  • Build and continuously develop a scalable quality management system, ensuring its effectiveness.
  • Define, establish, and monitor standardized process, inspection, release, and documentation procedures for development, manufacturing, and integration workflows.
  • Ensure compliance with relevant aerospace standards, regulatory requirements, customer requirements, and internal quality policies.
  • Own quality metrics and reporting structures, using data-driven methods to analyze, manage, and improve process quality.
  • Conduct risk analyses and derive preventive and corrective actions to sustainably prevent errors.
  • Plan and support internal and external audits, including customer and regulatory-authority audits, and ensure successful follow-up of actions.
  • Manage complaints, deviations, and change control, including root-cause analyses and sustainable improvement actions.
  • Work closely with development, production, procurement, supply chain, and project management to ensure quality-compliant and reproducible processes.
  • Advance industrialization by establishing standardized processes, digital quality tools, and automated inspection procedures.
  • Represent the quality organization to customers, partners, auditors, and authorities, serving as the central contact for quality-related matters.
  • Support company growth by creating robust, scalable quality processes for future production volumes.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in the aerospace industry, ideally involving satellite, space, or high-tech manufacturing systems.
  • Familiarity with relevant aerospace standards, such as EN 9100, ECSS, or comparable standards.
  • Experience building quality organizations in growth or scale-up environments.
  • Knowledge of digital quality management systems and data-driven quality and analysis tools.

About the Company

Rocket Factory Augsburg

Low-cost microlauncher for small satellites

Rocket Factory Augsburg provides flexible, low-cost launch services for small satellites, anchored by its RFA ONE launcher. The vehicle is a 30-meter three-stage rocket: nine Helix engines on the first stage, a vacuum-optimized Helix on the second stage, and a Redshift orbital transfer vehicle on the third stage to deploy satellites into different orbits. It cuts costs by applying automotive-style serial production and off-the-shelf components, aiming for roughly $3,000–$4,000 per kilogram. Its goal is to democratize access to space by enabling affordable, multi-orbit deployment for small-satellite missions.

Company size
201-500
Company stage
Grant
Total funding
$256.8M
Headquarters
Augsburg, Germany
Founded
2018

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