Structures Integration Manager - Launch Vehicle

Neoterra Talent; Valencia; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

On-site physiotherapy

Flexible working hours

Holiday entitlement: 23 days + 24 and

31 December holidays

Job summary

Neoterra Talent is seeking a Structures Integration Manager for a European launch company. The role owns structures integration for the next orbital launcher, overseeing major structures and leading integration teams in a growing company on the move toward serial production.

Based in the Alicante area, the position involves coordinating design, build and test activities across interfaces, with travel to test and launch sites. Fluency in Spanish (B2+) and strong English are required.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in aerospace structures, structural or electrical integration, or launch vehicle, aircraft or satellite integration.
• Experience with metallic and composite structures.
• Experience with test campaigns.
• Proven leadership of integration teams.
• Fluent Spanish (B2 or higher) and good English.

Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate, execute and verify the integration of the vehicle's major structures.
• Lead the integration of propellant tanks, interstage, fairing and secondary composite structures.
• Own integration procedures, interface checks and verification activities.
• Support qualification and acceptance test campaigns and launch campaigns.
• Act as the interface between structures engineering, manufacturing, propulsion, avionics, test operations and launch operations.
• Lead integration technicians and engineers, and support hiring, training and team development.
• Report directly to the vehicle integration leadership.

Skills

Aerospace integration

Team leadership

Systems experience

Fluent Spanish

English proficiency

Job description

Structures Integration Manager – Launch Vehicle

On behalf of our client, a well-funded European launch company, we are looking for a Structures Integration Manager to own structures integration on their next orbital launch vehicle. Our client designs and builds its rockets in-house, from engines to structures, and operates its own test facilities and launch infrastructure. The company is now moving from development into serial production and is building the team that will take its launcher to orbit.

What you will do

• Plan, coordinate, execute and verify the integration of the vehicle's major structures
• Lead the integration of propellant tanks, interstage, fairing and secondary composite structures
• Own integration procedures, interface checks and verification activities
• Support qualification and acceptance test campaigns and launch campaigns
• Act as the interface between structures engineering, manufacturing, propulsion, avionics, test operations and launch operations
• Lead integration technicians and engineers, and support hiring, training and team development
• Report directly to the vehicle integration leadership

What you bring

• 10+ years of experience in aerospace structures, structural or electrical integration, or launch vehicle, aircraft or satellite integration
• Experience with metallic and composite structures
• Experience with test campaigns
• Proven leadership of integration teams
• Fluent Spanish (B2 or higher) and good English

What our client offers

• A key role on real flight hardware in a company in its growth phase
• Flexible working hours
• Health insurance, on-site physiotherapy and further benefits
• 23 days of holiday plus 24 and 31 December
• Based on the Mediterranean coast in the Alicante area, with travel to test and launch sites