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Combine technical judgment and authority with a leadership style that is collaborative, open, and focused on both results and people: listen to and value the team’s input, integrate\ndifferent perspectives, foster their autonomy, and promote their growth. The primary focus will be the development of IOD2, a satellite platform weighing approximately 500 kg.\nSome of your responsibilities will be:\nLead, organize, and develop the team; assign responsibilities, delegate clearly, provide feedback, and support the team through monitoring, training, and performance evaluations. Foster collaboration, initiative, and autonomy amongthe engineers.\n\nPlan capacity, resources, and workload across projects; agree on priorities and deadlines, anticipate dependencies, and manage deviations with specific action plans.\nAssume ultimate responsibility for the department’s deliverables: ensure that committed milestones are met on time and in the proper manner, with technical quality, traceability, and risk visibility.\nRepresent the Mechanical Engineering department in dealings with Systems, Electronics, Propulsion, AIT, and project management; align requirements, interfaces,deliverables, and acceptance criteria.\n\nLead the high-level mechanical definition: configuration, structure, materials, joints, integration, and trade-offs between mass, stiffness, thermal behavior, cost, and schedule.\n Act as a technical authority: conduct reviews, resolve discrepancies, and approve decisions within your scope, drawing on the expertise of design and simulation leads and evaluating their proposals.\nEnsure that effective processes are in place for the review, change control, quality assurance, and traceability of mechanical deliverables; the design lead will be responsible for the execution and detailed review of CAD models and drawings.\nIdentify risks, contracting needs, and requirements for external support; coordinate with engineering vendors and escalate to the CTO any decisions that exceed your scope, along with options and recommendations.\nYour profile\nYou’ll be a great fit if you have:A degree in Mechanical, Industrial, or Aerospace Engineering, or equivalent technical training, with at least 10 years of relevant experience in mechanical product development.\nDemonstrable experience in managing people and technical leadership: delegation, professional development, feedback, collaboration, and resolving conflicting priorities.\nOpen, results-oriented, and people-focused leadership: ability to listen to different perspectives, make decisions judgmentally, and empower the team to work autonomously.\nTrack record as a mechanical engineering manager, team lead, or principal engineer with team management or technical authority over a department or product.\nPrevious hands-on experience in mechanical design and analysis; ability to question hypotheses, loads, boundary conditions, and simulation results, and to demand sufficient technical evidence.\nSolid knowledge of mechanical assemblies, tolerances, materials, fasteners, manufacturing, and integration; ability to evaluate structural and thermal trade-offs in collaboration with specialists.\nExperience coordinating multidisciplinary requirements and interfaces, taking hardware from concept to manufacturing and validation, and ensuring milestones, deliverables, and deadlines are met.\nClear communication skills, the ability to make decisions with incomplete information, professional-level English, and a genuine willingness to work on-site in Nigrán.\n Nice to have:Previous experience in the space sector (satellites, subsystems, or space/aerospace hardware), design reviews, structural or thermal testing, and ECSS standards. Not a mandatory requirement.\n15 or more years of experience managing teams with both junior and senior members.\nExperience with CAD/FEM tools, PDM or PLM systems, and planning for teams working on multiple projects.\nWhy us?\nAt Kreios Space, you won’t just be working on isolated developments- you’ll be contributing directly to the product. Your work will have a visible impact on what we build, how it performs, and how it evolves. This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys being close to the technology, the decisions, and the final outcome.\nWe also care a lot about creating an environment where people genuinely enjoy working together. We have a very good team atmosphere, close collaboration, and a culture where ideas are welcome and contributions are valued.\nWhat we offer:\nThe opportunity to work on technology with real product impact.\nA collaborative and innovative environment where you can contribute from day one.\nMeaningful technical challenges and the chance to work close to the final product.\nContinuous learning and professional growth opportunities.\nA strong team culture and a genuinely positive working environment.\nAn on-site role in Porto do Molle (Nigrán).\nFresh fruit in the office every week, plus coffee and milk always available.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5319,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":15,"management_years_min":15,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"All levels","optional":false}]},"benefits":["Continuous learning","Growth opportunities","Professional development"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Space & Aerospace","Satellite Manufacturing"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-05T17:18:37Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":60,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.602,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":31,"reasons":["conf:3","stale_co","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-06T05:58:05Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/kreios-space-ltd-mechanical-engineer-technical-lead","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/kreios-space-ltd-mechanical-engineer-technical-lead.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-06T16:22:21Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":30418,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-07T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":2030386},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=2030386"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fkreios-space-ltd-mechanical-engineer-technical-lead"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fkreios-space-ltd-mechanical-engineer-technical-lead"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fkreios-space-ltd-mechanical-engineer-technical-lead"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/kreios-space-ltd-mechanical-engineer-technical-lead\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fkreios-space-ltd-mechanical-engineer-technical-lead"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3819725}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"kreiosspace.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3819725},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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