Engineering Excellence Manager

MatchMaker; Aalborg; Hybrid; DKK 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

GomSpace seeks an Engineering Excellence Manager to centralise and steer Engineering support functions across multiple sites, delivering mission‑critical satellite capabilities with a business‑centric approach.

You will lead the Engineering Excellence team, drive governance, and enable execution through dashboards, cadence, and effective stakeholder engagement.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience in engineering enablement, operational excellence, or equivalent technical operations roles in high-technology environments.
• Demonstrated ability to design and optimise end-to-end engineering value streams, balancing technical excellence with business outcomes.
• Experience operating at system and leadership level in complex organisations, exercising judgement, prioritisation, and trade‑off decisions under ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Define and run the Engineering operating model across multiple sites, aligning with the Satellite Systems Business Unit.
• Drive selection and deployment of engineering methods and support the use of AI in design and operations.
• Own engineering configuration management, baselines, interfaces, change control, and traceability, in collaboration with PMO and delivery needs.
• Ensure compliance with space regulations, quality standards and certifications (ISO, NIS2), embedding practices in daily work.
• Act as Chief of Staff to the Head of Engineering, coordinating synthesis, preparation, and follow‑ups of complex topics and leadership decisions.
• Establish dashboards, reporting cadence, and executive‑level material for internal and external forums.

Skills

Lean Six Sigma

Leadership

Reporting & dashboards

Strategic thinking

Security clearance eligible

English proficiency

Education

Engineering degree (Aerospace/Mechanical/Electrical)

Job description

The position

Job overall purpose

• The Engineering Excellence Manager, reporting to the Head of Engineering, centralises all Engineering support functions to ensure excellence is intrinsically built into how Engineering operates across a global and evolving, multi-site Engineering environment, from mission and satellite system design to satellite operations
• The role establishes and runs the Engineering operating model, ensuring Engineering functions as a well-run, business-centric system that converts engineering effort into delivered mission and satellite capability in a predictable, efficient, and scalable manner
• This is a highly operational role, combining broad system responsibility with strong execution, reporting, and follow-up

Key areas of responsibility & tasks

Engineering Operating Model

• Centralise and run Engineering support functions within Satellite Systems Engineering, aligned with the Satellite Systems Business Unit, across multiple Engineering sites
• Ensure Engineering operates as a well-run, predictable, and business-centered system, optimising internal flow and interfaces to PMO, AIV (manufacturing, integration and verification), procurement, Product production, and other Business Units
• Apply system-level and value-stream thinking to consistently convert technical intent into delivered mission and satellite capability

Methods

• Define and deploy Engineering methods and standard ways of working.
• Enable effective use of AI in both engineering design (what we build) andengineering methods, processes, and operations (how we work)
• Drive adoption of DFMAT and modularity principles with a strong focus onpractical application and measurable impact

Configuration Management & Interfaces

• Establish and own Engineering Configuration Management as a technical discipline, including baselines, interfaces, change control, and traceability, aligned with projects, PMO governance, and company-wide Configuration Management plan
• Own and maintain the structure and lifecycle of technical orders towards procurement and Product production for internal and third-party products, ensuring technical clarity, readiness, and alignment with PMO and delivery needs
• Ensure clear and efficient technical handovers to AIV in alignment with AIV requirements, integration needs, and execution constraints.
• Support and streamline inter-Business Unit interfaces including technical agreements, in alignment with PMO

Compliance

• Ensure Engineering compliance with space and quality regulations, protocols, standards, and relevant certifications (e.g. ISO, NIS2), embedding compliance into Engineering processes, tools, and daily practices in coordination with company-wide quality and assurance functions
• Own and maintain Engineering assets and tools, including laboratories, test infrastructure, engineering environments, shared engineering toolchains, and licences

Leadership Support & Execution

• Act as custodian of the Satellite Systems Business Unit roadmap artefact, ensuring clear structure, visualisation, consistency, and alignment with inputs from the Head of Engineering and technical leaders
• Act as Chief of Staff to the Head of Engineering, providing direct support across synthesis, preparation, coordination, and sustained follow-up ofcomplex topics and leadership decisions, ensuring Engineering operatescoherently as a system
• Establish dashboards, reporting, and operational cadence, and prepare clear,executive-level material for internal and external forums.
• Drive execution by ensuring initiatives are implemented, adopted, measured,and continuously improved
• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing Engineering Excellence team,defining roles, priorities, and ways of working, and scaling the function as the company and Engineering grows

Criteria of Success

• High quality and On-time deliveries
• Successful projects
• High level of engagement in the team
• Good relationships with stakeholders
• Strategic and technical leadership

Qualifications

Critical experience

• Substantial experience in engineering enablement, operational excellence, or equivalent technical operations roles in high-technology environments
• Demonstrated ability to design and optimise end-to-end engineering value streams, balancing technical excellence with business outcomes
• Experience operating at system and leadership level in complex organisations, exercising judgement, prioritisation, and trade‑off decisions under ambiguity

Skills

• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt or equivalent qualificationSound business acumen, translating strategic intent into operational systemsand day‑to‑day execution
• Highly operational mindset, with a track record of handling broad responsibilitywhile driving concrete outcomes, follow-up, and measurable results
• Strong capability in reporting, including the definition and use of dashboards,metrics, and indicators to steer operations and decision‑making
• Leadership presence and interpersonal effectiveness, with the capacity toinfluence without direct authority and operate credibly across functions
• Outstanding alignment with GomSpace values: Helpfulness, Open andfrequent communication, True leadership, and Acting for customer value
• Strong commercial instinct: understands how to win without compromising delivery
• Very good communication and influence skills, with the ability to align Sales, Engineering leadership, and customers through clear technical judgement
• Proud of your work – including the work of your team
• Thrilled for creating business value
• Structured
• Strategic and innovation driven mindset
• Active or eligible for security clearance
• English on a high level – oral and written

Education

• Relevant degree in Engineering (Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field)

The company

GomSpace is a globally leading designer, integrator and manufacturer of high‑end nano and microsatellites for customers in the academic, government and commercial markets. Our positions of strength include systems integration, small satellite subsystems and advanced miniaturized radio technology. At the core of our mission are our core values: Be helpful, communicate openly and frequently, show true leadership and act for customer value.

Our international team is devoted to understanding our customers’ requirements and delivering high quality. We are listed in Stockholm (GOMX), headquartered in Denmark and have subsidiaries in Sweden, Singapore, France, North America and Luxembourg. We have more than 200 employees servicing customers in more than 60 countries.

Our mission:“We make Space Yours”

From our first CubeSat innovations to enabling entire constellations, we’ve been driven by one mission: to empower nations, businesses, researchers, and visionaries to claim their place in space.
With cutting‑edge small satellite technology, we break down barriers – making access to space smarter, faster, and more affordable.
Today, we’re not just building satellites – we’re building opportunities. We’re not just enabling missions – we’re enabling dreams by helping and guiding our customers in fulfilling their space ambitions. Whether you’re a startup launching your first satellite, an ambitious government deploying national strengths or an established enterprise building a global network “We make space Yours. Accessible, Affordable, Useful.

It’s YOURS to explore, YOURS to innovate, and YOURS to reach.

With more than 19 years of experience in the market and a track record of multiple successful missions accomplished, we have developed profound knowledge and competencies within Radio Technology, Cubesat Platforms, Project Management as well as Innovation. We provide the solutions that enables our customers to succeed in their business - whether this is a product, a subsystem, support or a full customized solution. We deliver these projects based on our strong in‑house portfolios of established products and rich capabilities.

GOMSpace is organized as five Business Units managed by a VP. This job is in theSATSYS Business Unit and is reporting to the Head of Engineering in SATSYS Business Unit. GomSpaces’ headquarter is in Aalborg, Denmark and due to the leadership responsibility in this role, the job is placed at the HQ. So you will have to relocate to the HQ in Denmark and GomSpace provides support for the relocation.

In short GomSpace is

• An innovative and international listed company headquartered in Aalborg
• International in the daily working style - English is the corporate language
• Growing, there are a lot of big projects kicking off, it’s an exciting time to join
• Flexible. We constantly challenge what works best for the teams – the projectmanagement is based on internationally recognised standards andteamorientated approaches
• Customer focused: We have respect for our customers
• People focus: We believe success is all about “people and culture”

Kort beskrivelse

Job overall purpose

• The Engineering Excellence Manager, reporting to the Head of Engineering, centralises all Engineering support functions to ensure excellence is intrinsically built into how Engineering operates across a global and evolving, multi-site Engineering environment, from mission and satellite system design to satellite operations
• The role establishes and runs the Engineering operating model, ensuring Engineering functions as a well‑run, business‑centric system that converts engineering effort into delivered mission and satellite capability in a predictable, efficient and scalable manner
• This is a highly operational role, combining broad system responsibility with strong execution, reporting, and follow‑up

Key areas of responsibility & tasks

Engineering Operating Model

• Centralise and run Engineering support functions within Satellite Systems Engineering, aligned with the Satellite Systems Business Unit, across multiple Engineering sites
• Ensure Engineering operates as a well‑run, predictable, and business‑centric system, optimising internal flow and interfaces to PMO, AIV (manufacturing, integration and verification), procurement, Product production, and other Business Units
• Apply system‑level and value‑stream thinking to consistently convert technical intent into delivered mission and satellite capability

Methods

• Define and deploy Engineering methods and standard ways of working.
• Enable effective use of AI in both engineering design (what we build) andengineering methods, processes, and operations (how we work)
• Drive adoption of DFMAT and modularity principles with a strong focus onpractical application and measurable impact

Configuration Management & Interfaces

• Establish and own Engineering Configuration Management as a technical discipline, including baselines, interfaces, change control, and traceability, aligned with projects, PMO governance, and company‑wide Configuration Management plan
• Own and maintain the structure and lifecycle of technical orders towards procurement and Product production for internal and third‑party products, ensuring technical clarity, readiness, and alignment with PMO and delivery needs
• Ensure clear and efficient technical handovers to AIV in alignment with AIV requirements, integration needs, and execution constraints.
• Support and streamline inter‑Business Unit interfaces including technical agreements, in alignment with PMO

Compliance

• Ensure Engineering compliance with space and quality regulations, protocols, standards, and relevant certifications (e.g. ISO, NIS2), embedding compliance into Engineering processes, tools, and daily practices in coordination with company‑wide quality and assurance functions
• Own and maintain Engineering assets and tools, including laboratories, test infrastructure, engineering environments, shared engineering toolchains, and licences

Leadership Support & Execution

• Act as custodian of the Satellite Systems Business Unit roadmap artefact, ensuring clear structure, visualisation, consistency, and alignment with inputs from the Head of Engineering and technical leaders
• Act as Chief of Staff to the Head of Engineering, providing direct support across synthesis, preparation, coordination, and sustained follow‑up ofcomplex topics and leadership decisions, ensuring Engineering operatescoherently as a system
• Establish dashboards, reporting, and operational cadence, and prepare clear,executive‑level material for internal and external forums.
• Drive execution by ensuring initiatives are implemented, adopted, measured,and continuously improved
• Build, lead, and develop a high‑performing Engineering Excellence team,defining roles, priorities, and ways of working, and scaling the function as the company and Engineering grows

Criteria of Success

• High quality and On‑time deliveries
• Successful projects
• High level of engagement in the team
• Good relationships with stakeholders
• Strategic and technical leadership