Engineering Excellence Manager

MatchMaker A/S; Aalborg; On-site; DKK 700,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

MatchMaker A/S is looking for an Engineering Excellence Manager based in Aalborg, Denmark. The role involves centralizing engineering support functions across multiple sites to ensure excellence and optimize performance.

The ideal candidate will have substantial experience in technical operations, with proven abilities in leadership and operational execution. Strong skills in reporting and stakeholder management are essential for driving the team's success.

Qualifications

• Experience in engineering enablement or operational excellence in high-tech environments.
• Proven ability to design and optimize engineering value streams.
• Experience operating at system and leadership level in complex organizations.

Responsibilities

• Centralize and run Engineering support functions within Satellite Systems Engineering.
• Define and deploy Engineering methods and standard ways of working.
• Ensure Engineering compliance with space and quality regulations.

Skills

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt or equivalent qualification

Business acumen and operational execution

Strong capability in reporting and metrics

Leadership presence and interpersonal effectiveness

Excellent communication and influence skills

Security clearance eligibility

Education

Relevant degree in Engineering (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‑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) and engineering methods, processes and operations (how we work)
• Drive adoption of DFMAT and modularity principles with a strong focus on practical 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 of complex topics and leadership decisions, ensuring Engineering operates coherently 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 systems and day‑to‑day execution
• Highly operational mindset, with a track record of handling broad responsibility while 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 to influence without direct authority and operate credibly across functions
• Outstanding alignment with GomSpace values: Helpfulness, Open and frequent 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)

Contact and location

The company doesn’t become aware of your inquiry without your acceptance. If you have any questions about the position, you are welcome to contact Jan Tornfeldt via [e-mail] or phone [phone]