A career at Lilium is for those who want to do something extraordinary. We take pride in pushing the boundaries of engineering, technology and customer experience.  

As part of a team, you will tackle challenges and deliver something that has never been done before. By joining Lilium you will have the opportunity to work with a world-class entrepreneurial team of more than  950 people who are  as passionate about changing the world as you are.  

You will always act with safety and integrity in mind and embody our core behaviors of efficient and positive collaboration, ownership of time, continuous improvements and, ultimately delivering results.

We thrive on diversity and creating an inclusive culture, with more than 50 nationalities currently working hard to bring our vision of a sustainable world to life. 

A career at Lilium is for those who want to do something extraordinary. We take pride in pushing the boundaries of engineering, technology, and customer experience. 

As part of a team, you will tackle challenges and deliver something that has never been done before. By joining Lilium, you will have the opportunity to work with a world-class entrepreneurial team of more than 800 people who are as passionate about changing the world as you are. 

We thrive on diversity and creating an inclusive culture, with more than 50 nationalities currently working hard to bring our vision of a sustainable world to life.

Your role and your Team:

We have a new opportunity for a qualified and accomplished Senior Project Manager with proven experience in aviation or automotive battery systems/electrical power systems.    Reporting to the Head of Project Management - Energy, you will be responsible for the successful delivery of projects within the Energy Integrated Project Team (IPT).     

As an experienced Project Manager you will take ownership of the implementation of project governance for your scope of work, including efficient project delivery, schedule development and adherence, impediment removal, risk management, and resource demand.  Working with a dynamic cross-functional team including engineering, supply chain, manufacturing and PMO functions, you will use your experience of managing complex fast-paced aerospace projects. 

Your Day to Day:

• Manage the program delivery process for your scope on behalf of the Head of Project Management to establish, align and record project objectives for your scope across the entire development cycle.
• Be responsible for evaluating project impacts and communicating these with clear recommendations to the Head of Project Management. 
• Be consulted on technical decisions to ensure that project implications and risks are considered and accounted for e.g., impact on industrialization, schedule, or cost.
• Ensure project objectives are translated into measurable and achievable deliverables.  Manage these with the team and drumbeat their delivery.
• Support rapid resolution of obstacles to delivery through attendance of team, IPT and program daily escalation sessions and subsequent resolution activities.
• Facilitate delivery related meetings such as planning reviews, and retrospectives.
• Own the development, management and delivery of the schedule and pay particular attention to interdependencies and deliverables to other teams and suppliers.
• Act as an 'Early Warning' for non-delivered handoffs, parts and materializing risks and opportunities
• Actively manage risks and opportunities, ensuring mitigation activities are well planned.
• Ensure the Change Control process is adhered to by the team and support its administration.

About you:

We are looking for a credible team player and strong communicator with proven project management experience, ideally with one or more relevant qualifications such as PMP. 

Projects delivery experience gained within an aerospace or similarly complex environment is important and expertise in the development, production or testing of battery systems would also be an advantage. 

Requirements; 

• Demonstrable skills in project management fundamentals for scheduling, risk management, estimation, project communications and budget and resource management.
• Evidence of successfully managing a complex technology development project through at least one of the major phases – development, prototyping, verification or industrialisation is crucial.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage and influence a broad range of stakeholders.
• Ability to probe and challenge assumptions, think differently when faced with challenges and adopt a solution-oriented mindset.
• Enthusiastic and eager to learn.  Agile, and able to adapt to a highly complex and fast paced working environment. 
• Excellent communicator in English, fluency in German would be beneficial.

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Life at Lilium:

The wellbeing of our employees is a high priority. In our HQ we have many initiatives such as free healthy food and drinks, free in-house gym and health days. In remote offices we offer online opportunities to stay connected and develop yourself as well including our culture club, learning terminal, Employee Assistance Program and many more.

 Lilium is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all qualified individuals regardless of ethnicity, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.