Hardware Team Leader

About H55

As the technological spin-off of Solar Impulse, the first electric airplane to fly around the world, the mission of H55, is to make aviation clean, safe, and affordable.

The company’s strengths and competencies lie in developing propulsion and energy storage solutions which are modular, lightweight, and certifiable.

H55 is financed by a reputable group of investors from Silicon Valley and Switzerland, and as such, is well positioned for its next stage of its development. The company’s short-term priorities include building up out of engineering team, putting into place production facilities, and creating a north American subsidiary.

At H55, you will work with a very forward-looking team who are changing the paradigms of air transportation. H55 is composed of highly experienced engineers, entrepreneurs and managers and is seeking like mind talented professionals who understand how to couple creativity and innovation with technical and business considerations.

Your Role

As the Hardware Team Leader, you will be part of the Design Organization (DOA PART-21J). The perimeter of the hardware team covers ECBA (Electronic Control Board Assembly) level activities related to the H55 Electric Propulsion System performed at H55 HQ in Sion. You will report to the Head of Design Organization. Your main responsibilities will include:

• Manage the Hardware Team (HW/ECBA): organize and lead the team towards time, cost and quality commitments. Provide clear direction and be able to filter requests to ensure they are aligned with your objectives
• Develop / Maintain the team: ensuring the team skills are coherent of the needs and establish necessary training plans to enable the team efficiency
• Establish team growth roadmap and strategy to sustain H55 evolution expectations.
• Manage the day to day deployment of resources complying to project and programme needs
• Establish and monitor team budgets
• Ensure and facilitates efficient integration with other interfaced teams
• Provide reporting of the team status to Head of Product Development
• Be responsible for creating and ensuring the team follows standard processes and procedures, crucially as the company moves towards certification
• Support product milestone reviews by providing experience and expertise
• Conducts reviews of design data, analyses and test procedures pertaining to the development of new designs, methods, materials and reports to ensure technical maturity and compliance with regulatory and customer requirements. Reviews entail advanced engineering principles, company standards, and procedures. Determines required actions and performs follow-up activities

Your profile

You have demonstrated ability to operate both strategically and tactically in highly fast changing environment. Specifically, this includes:

• University degree (min. bachelor) in a relevant engineering discipline (HW and product development, Power Electronics, Energy Systems) minimum +5 years of experience
• Be a team player and be able to lead by example.
• Be able to make decisions rationally based on trade-offs between cost, time, quality, safety and performance
• Enable team decisions and be able to justify them clearly, either internally to H55 or to external stakeholders
• Thorough knowledge of the product and ECBA development engineering disciplines, to mentor and coach team members
• Demonstrated experience and expertise as team leader
• Good understanding of aviation standards in the field of activity
• Basic understanding of EASA Part 21, EASA Certification Specifications and certification principles
• Experience working in Electrical Propulsion Systems ( Propulsion unit and/or Energy storage is a plus)
• Knowledgeable on Aerospace processes & standard like ARP 4754, DO-254, CS23 or equivalent
• Demonstrated success in working as a team player, capable of interacting with people from diverse backgrounds and skillsets
• Resource management/Leadership skills
• Target-oriented, with analytic problem-solving capabilities
• Well organized including the ability to properly document
• Capacity to prioritize, manage time effectively and multi-task
• Excellent communication skills
• Fluency in English (oral and written), French is an asset,

What we offer

• An amazing work Location in Sion, Valais in the heart of Swiss Alps.
• A highly dynamic and multicultural environment where you can grow and learn by working on ambitious challenges to shape the future of Electric Aviation.
• We offer a position which contributes to valuable and impactful work in a stimulating and international environment

Sounds interesting? We look forward to meeting you!

H55 is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all qualified individuals regardless of nationality, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on competence, performance, and business needs.