Payload Project Manager (m/f/d)

OHB System AG - We.Create.Space

OHB System AG is one of the leading space companies in Europe. The company is part of the listed high-tech group OHB SE, which has more than 3,200 employees working on pivotal European space programs. With two strong locations in Bremen and Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich and more than 40 years of experience, OHB System AG specialises in high-tech solutions for space. These include low-orbiting and geostationary satellites for Earth observation, navigation, telecommunications, science and space exploration as well as systems for human space flight and aerial reconnaissance. We owe our success to our employees' passion for innovation, as well as their commitment and initiative.


For permanent employment OHB System AG in Bremen is looking for a
Payload Project Manager (m/f/d)

Your Tasks

• Define the payload scope in close coordination with the customer, overall project management, and company leadership, ensuring full alignment
• Approve and maintain the requirements baseline, ensuring all developed, manufactured, tested, and delivered items meet the agreed technical specifications
• Define, implement end execute the project schedule and cost baseline for the payload setup and take full ownership of delivering the subproject on time and within budget
• Plan, secure, and balance internal resources, ensuring that skills and capacity match workload demands, and escalate any gaps or risks early
• Establish the team structure, assign clear ownership of milestones and deliverables, and lead both internal progress reviews and joint reviews with the prime contractor and customer
• Ensure effective cross-functional execution (mechanical, electrical, software, AIT, quality, supply chain etc.) through clear work orders, defined interfaces, and seamless handovers
• Monitor and control of technical maturity, schedule, cost, and quality, proactively managing risks and issues, and implementing recovery plans when required
• Provide regular, concise status updates, forecasts, and risk assessments to stakeholders, maintaining up-to-date minutes of meetings, action logs, and dashboards
• Control configuration and baselines, evaluating and approving any change with impact on scope, cost, or schedule

Your Qualifications

• Studies in a relevant engineering discipline (degree in aerospace technology or comparable qualification)
• Technical and methodological competence in project management methods and several years of relevant practical experience as a project manager (m/f/d) or subcontractor manager (m/f/d) of complex subcontracts
• Proven skills in professional and ideally also disciplinary team leadership
• Very good understanding of the relevant standards and processes
• Very good economic understanding and high ability to balance and prioritize between quality, costs and schedule
• Very good communication skills, negotiation skills, decision-making skills and conflict resolution skills
• Strong skills in motivation, delegation, knowledge transfer and network building
• Very good analytical skills and presentation skills
• High willingness to travel

We offer

Work Life Balance: Flexible working hours, sabbatical, 30 days vacation & specialleave days

Mobile Work: Hybrid work & mobile work abroad

Structured on-boarding process (incl. Assignment of a buddy in the first months)

Development: Extensive range of training courses, individual professional development, German language courses & annual employee dialogue

space projects

Additional benefits: 13. monthly salary, accident insurance & company pension plan

Catering: High standard company restaurant & generous meals subsidy

Active health promotion: Health management, E-GYM Wellpass & In-company sports groups

Family: Kindergarten subsidy / Kindergarten places, Childcare in the vacation period & paid child sickness days

Mobility: Subsidized Deutschland ticket, Job bike & parking lots

Company parties & events: Christmas party, Satellite launch events, NextGen Speakers Night

Innovation: Company suggestion system & free research and development

A complete overview of our benefits and more details can be found here on our website.

Become part of our international team and take your professional and personal development to a new level. Don't fulfil all the requirements? No problem - we are happy to receive applications with partial matches! We are looking forward to your application in German or English via our online tool.

OHB System AG
Human Resources

Questions regarding this posting? Danielle Diedrichs is available under [email protected].