Certification, Compliance & Confirmity Manager (m/f/d)

Quantum-Systems GmbH; Weßling; Hybrid; EUR 85.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Company pension

Flexible working hours

Mobile work (remote 1 day/week)

EGYM Wellpass

Bike leasing

Corporate benefits

Employee events

Lunch card

Company shuttle

Zusammenfassung

Quantum Systems is seeking a Certification, Compliance & Conformity Manager to lead all certification, safety, compliance and conformity activities for next-generation Counter-UAS interceptor systems in Germany.

You will shape certification strategy, interface with engineering, quality, safety, customers, authorities, test centers and military certification bodies, ensuring fielded systems meet regulatory requirements.

Qualifikationen

• Degree in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Defence Technology or comparable.
• Several years of experience in certification, qualification, airworthiness, system safety, compliance or regulatory affairs within defence.
• Direct experience with certification/approval of systems containing energetic/explosive components is a plus.
• Familiarity with military certification frameworks and governmental authorities, defence customers, test centers, and approval bodies.
• Experience preparing safety cases, conformity documentation, hazard analyses and qualification records.
• Ability to navigate complex regulatory environments where safety, transportation and storage intersect.
• Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional coordination in agile settings.
• Proficient in English and German.

Aufgaben

• Own the certification, qualification, compliance and conformity strategy for Counter-UAS interceptor systems.
• Define roadmaps and approval concepts for military/defence products.
• Coordinate qualification campaigns, safety assessments and conformity evaluations with authorities and test centers.
• Translate military safety and explosive handling requirements into engineering deliverables.
• Collaborate with Systems Engineering, Safety, Quality, and Product Management across development lifecycle.
• Maintain certification evidence, safety cases and technical dossiers.

Kenntnisse

Regulatory affairs

Certification planning

Stakeholder mgmt

Bilingual EN/DE

Military standards

Ausbildung

Aerospace / Systems / Mechanical / Electrical or Defence Tech

Jobbeschreibung

As a Certification, Compliance & Conformity Manager, you will lead all certification, safety, compliance, and conformity activities for our next-generation Counter-UAS interceptor systems. While Quantum Systems already possesses extensive expertise in the certification of unmanned aerial systems, we are expanding into a domain with additional regulatory and technical challenges: military products containing energetic and explosive components.

In this role, you will build the certification strategy for interceptor systems and act as the key interface between engineering, quality, safety, customers, authorities, test centers, and military certification organizations. Your mission is to ensure that our systems can be developed, tested, qualified, and fielded in accordance with applicable military safety, conformity, and operational requirements.

What is your Day to Day Mission:

• Own the certification, qualification, compliance, documentation and conformity strategy for Counter-UAS interceptor systems

• Define certification roadmaps and approval concepts for products operating within military and defence environments.

• Coordinate qualification campaigns, safety assessments, conformity evaluations, and acceptance activities with customers, authorities, and external test organizations.

• Interpret and translate military safety, ammunition, explosive-handling, transportation, storage, and operational requirements into engineering deliverables.

• Work closely with Systems Engineering, Verification & Validation, Safety Engineering, Quality, and Product Management teams throughout the development lifecycle.

• Establish and maintain certification evidence, safety cases, compliance documentation, and technical dossiers.

• Act as the central point of contact for military authorities, qualification agencies, defence customers, and certification bodies.

• Support product releases and operational deployments by ensuring all required certification, safety, and conformity obligations are fulfilled.

• Support technical alignment and requirements management with associated sub-suppliers for e.g. explosive payloads.

What you bring to the team:

• You have a degree in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Defence Technology, or a comparable technical discipline.

• You have several years of experience in certification, qualification, airworthiness, system safety, compliance, or regulatory affairs within the defence industry.

• Ideally, you bring direct experience with the certification, qualification, or approval of systems containing energetic or explosive components such as guided missiles, loitering munitions, interceptor systems, smart ammunition, weapon systems, or comparable military products.

• You understand military certification and qualification frameworks and are familiar with working alongside governmental authorities, defence customers, military test centers, and approval organizations.

• You have experience preparing safety cases, conformity documentation, hazard analyses, certification evidence, and qualification records.

• You are comfortable navigating complex regulatory environments where system safety, operational suitability, transportation, storage, and explosive safety requirements intersect.

• You possess strong stakeholder management skills and can successfully coordinate multidisciplinary engineering activities in an agile and fast-paced environment.

• Communicating in English and German comes naturally to you.

Why Quantum-Systems:

• We believe in the power of combinedefforts: straightforward tech expertisepaired with a customer-centric focus.

• We are industry pioneerswho are ambitious, bold,and visionary.

• We push limits, thinkoutside-the-box and strivefor technological excellence toshape the future of aerial data.

• We promise to be your runwayfor individual and professionalgrowth.

Our benefits:

• Company pension scheme: We support you so that you can already make provisions for later.

• Flexible working hours: With trust-based working hours, you are not only responsible for your working hours, but also for your work-life balance.

• Mobile Work: If things get a little busy in the office, you have the option to work remotely one flexible day per week to create the right balance.

• Stay active: With EGYM Wellpass, you get access to thousands of fitness and sports facilities — and of course, we subsidize the membership.

• Bike-Leasing: We support you in staying environmentally mobile and healthy.

• Corporate Benefits: Your opportunity for attractive offers and discounts from well-known suppliers and brands, e.g. Adidas, Apple, Expedia.

• Employee events: We not only want to grow together, but also celebrate our successes together.

• Lunch-Card: Be powerful with delicious energy, daily lunch budget is sponsored.

• Company Shuttle: Enjoy our convenient shuttle service that picks you up from Laim in Munich and brings you to our location, with return trips at the end of the workday.

About us:

Quantum Systems specialises in the development, design, and production of small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS). The company’s range of electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) sUAS are built to maximize range and versatility and to provide operators with a seamless user experience. By integrating cutting-edge software capabilities, like edge computing and real-time AI-powered data processing, Quantum Systems is building next-generation UAS for clients in defence, security, public sectors.