Location: Hamburg (Factory)
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: Competitive
Equity: Benchmarked
## Role Overview
Own manufacturing processes from feasibility through to serial production — new part introduction, process validation, quality assurance and continuous improvement for high-precision CNC components.
You sit at the intersection of engineering, production and the customer. In a founding team of two to three people that also means: commissioning machines, sourcing inspection equipment, building the quality management system from a blank page and acting as the technical bridge between the shop floor and the customer.
## Key Responsibilities
- Develop and optimise CNC manufacturing processes for precision components
- Lead new part introductions (NPI) — from feasibility study and process planning to series readiness
- Create work plans, fixturing concepts and inspection plans
- Run process FMEAs and root cause analysis when things go wrong
- Work with CAM programmers to improve machining strategies, reduce cycle times and increase first-time-right rates
- Build the quality management system (EN 9100) from scratch
- Act as technical point of contact for customers on manufacturing questions and DFM feedback
- Support MasonOS integration for manufacturing data capture and scheduling
- Standardise processes and documentation for replication across the network
- Help build the factory — infrastructure, inspection equipment, workshop layout
## Required Skills
- Degree in mechanical engineering, manufacturing engineering or equivalent
- Experience in CNC machining environments or manufacturing planning
- Strong understanding of machining processes, materials and tolerances
- Experience with CAD/CAM systems and complex engineering drawings
- Ability to read and interpret GD&T
- Analytical, structured and self-directed
- Comfortable working in a fast-moving, high-ownership environment with no established structure
## Nice To Haves
- Aerospace or defence manufacturing background
- AI literacy
- EN 9100 / AS9100 knowledge or implementation experience
- FMEA, SPC or Six Sigma experience
- MES or digital manufacturing systems experience
- Interest in robotics, factory automation and data-driven manufacturing
## What We Offer
- Key role in the founding team of a defence manufacturing scale-up
- Direct influence on processes that will scale across the entire network
- Work on mission-critical aerospace and defence components
- Access to advanced machine tools and evolving automation
- Equity participation with significant growth potential
- High-performance culture focused on continuous improvement
## About Isembard
Isembard is on a mission to forge industrial acceleration. We enable faster and cheaper products to be made for critical industries by combining advanced machine tools, robotics and our proprietary software, MasonOS. The components we manufacture are used in aerospace, defence, energy and other strategically important sectors. We are building a distributed network of high-performance factories across the UK, US and now Germany.
**Our values:**
- If not now, when
- Follow the five maxims
- Humour and humility