Team Lead Land Production (m/f/d) - UGV

As a Teamlead Land Production - UGV, you will be responsible for the technical and disciplinary leadership of your shift team within our unmanned ground systems (UGV) production facility in Göppingen. You will ensure that production targets, quality standards, safety requirements, and delivery schedules are consistently met, directly supporting the transition from prototype manufacturing to a robust, repeatable, and scalable serial production environment.

You will lead your team hands-on on the shop floor while working closely with Production Planning, Industrialization, Engineering, Quality, and Logistics. In this role, you will ensure strict adherence to approved work and inspection instructions and actively contribute shop floor feedback to continuous improvement initiatives.

What is your Day to Day Mission:

• Lead and manage the production team on your shift, including workforce planning and skills management.

• Ensure the achievement of shift targets related to production rate, quality, safety, and delivery performance.

• Assign and prioritize work orders according to the production plan and current capacity.

• Monitor compliance with work instructions (WI) and quality inspection instructions (QI), ensuring complete digital documentation in Operations1.

• Serve as the first escalation point for deviations, disruptions, and quality issues, initiating immediate corrective actions when necessary.

• Conduct shift handovers and shop floor meetings, communicating relevant KPIs and operational updates to the team.

• Coordinate closely with Production Planning, Industrialization, Quality, and Logistics to ensure smooth operational processes.

• Actively contribute to continuous improvement (CIP) initiatives related to processes, cycle times, and workstation design.

• Support the onboarding of new employees and ensure all required training and certifications are completed.

• Maintain a safe, clean, and efficient working environment while ensuring compliance with all relevant ESD, high-voltage (HV), lifting/crane, battery handling, and site-specific regulations.

What you bring to the team:

• Completed technical vocational training (for example, Mechatronics Technician, Industrial Mechanic, or Electronics Technician for Devices and Systems), ideally complemented by further qualification as a Master Craftsman (Meister) or Technician, or an equivalent qualification.

• Several years of experience in a manufacturing environment, ideally including initial experience in a leadership or coordination role.

• Strong leadership, communication, and decision-making skills, with the ability to drive execution in a shift-based production environment.

• Good understanding of Lean Manufacturing and shop floor management methods (e.g., 5S, Continuous Improvement Process (CIP/KVP), Andon).

• Strong quality mindset and the willingness to stop production and escalate issues when standards are not met, rather than bypassing established processes.

• Structured, solution-oriented, and resilient working style, even under time pressure.

• Good German language skills; English proficiency is advantageous for collaboration in an international environment.

• Willingness to work in a shift system.

Why Quantum-Systems:

• We believe in the power of combined efforts: straightforward tech expertise paired with a customer-centric focus.

• We are industry pioneers who are ambitious, bold, and visionary.

• We push limits, think outside-the-box and strive for technological excellence to shape the future of aerial data.

• We promise to be your runway for individual and professional growth.

Our benefits:

• Company pension scheme: We support you so that you can already make provisions for later.

• Flexible working hours: With trust-based working hours, you are not only responsible for your working hours, but also for your work-life balance.

• Mobile Work: If things get a little busy in the office, you have the option to work remotely one flexible day per week to create the right balance.

• Stay active: With EGYM Wellpass, you get access to thousands of fitness and sports facilities — and of course, we subsidize the membership.

• Bike-Leasing: We support you in staying environmentally mobile and healthy.

• Corporate Benefits: Your opportunity for attractive offers and discounts from well-known suppliers and brands, e.g. Adidas, Apple, Expedia.

• Employee events: We not only want to grow together, but also celebrate our successes together.

About us:

Quantum Systems is a leading European deep-tech company for unmanned systems across air, land and maritime domains. We develop and scale integrated hardware, software and AI-powered solutions for mission-critical operations.

At Quantum Systems, you’ll work alongside experts across disciplines, take ownership from day one and help turn ambitious ideas into technology with real-world impact. We move fast, think beyond boundaries and give our teams the space to shape what comes next.

The Future is Unmanned - But the responsibility is not.

Our commitment:

We are an open-minded company that not only values diversity, but actively promotes it. Regardless of gender, age, ethnic origin, religion, sexual orientation or disability, we firmly believe that the diversity of our employees is an essential part of our success.

At our company, every voice is heard and every perspective is valued. We believe that our differences enrich us and help us to find creative solutions and generate innovative ideas. We pride ourselves on creating an inclusive work environment where all employees can reach their full potential.