Operations Manager (m/f/d) Additive Manufacturing

Published December 19, 2024

Are you ready to drive the transformation of the manufacturing industry? Join us at TUM Venture Lab Additive Manufacturing and print a better future!

In recent years, additive manufacturing (AM) has fundamentally revolutionized how we will be able to manufacture products in a sustainable, personalized, and radically optimized manner in the future. This digital manufacturing technology offers endless possibilities for realizing visions, and we are convinced that AM will play a key role in overcoming our global challenges!

As the TUM Venture Lab Additive Manufacturing (TUM VL AM), together with TUM and UnternehmerTUM, we are developing a unique European innovation platform/hub to foster the transfer of excellent research activities into innovative start-ups within the additive and advanced manufacturing domain: deep tech sciencepreneurship. Join us in building the start-up ecosystem that connects founders with forward-thinking players and supports them in becoming Europe's leading shapers of tomorrow. As of 01.03.2025, we are looking for you as a project manager for the TUM VL AM!

We are seeking an Operations Manager to join our TUM VL Additive Manufacturing team.

Your Mission

  • Support our AM-powered Start-Ups - Actively take care of our start-up pipeline and contribute to the success of our teams with your domain-specific AM expertise.
  • Drive our AM Community - Operational organization, implementation & execution of events (digital/on-site) to continuously build and expand our community.
  • Create Visibility & Outreach - Development and conception of a clear communication strategy to circulate our USPs, offers and strengths in a customer-oriented way.
  • Connect Science and Innovation - Active exchange with researchers on the topic of spin-offs from science: Sciencepreneurship.
  • Support our TUM VL AM Team - Support and optimization of operational processes.

Your Profile

  • Completed scientific university degree (Diploma, Master, Ph.D.).
  • Relevant experience in the field of additive manufacturing; experience in higher education an advantage.
  • Team player and self-starter who enjoys working in an interdisciplinary team and proactively contributes their own expertise; high degree of personal responsibility and a strong “getting-things-done” mentality.
  • Excellent organizational skills in (agile) project management.
  • Very good communication & presentation skills and confident interaction with stakeholders.
  • First experience in a start-up environment and leadership experience of small teams is an advantage.
  • Very good written and spoken German and English skills.

What we offer

  • New Work | You will work in a challenging and dynamic environment at the interface between UnternehmerTUM and TUM with a great freedom of creative potential.
  • Unique Ecosystem | You are in the middle of Europe's leading network of excellent research and start-up institutes consisting of TUM, UnternehmerTUM, and the Munich Urban Colab.
  • Innovative Environment | You work directly with innovative people and future entrepreneurs and thus make a socially relevant contribution to shaping a future worth living.
  • Deep-Dive TUM Science | We work very closely with the Chair of Materials Engineering of Additive Manufacturing of Prof. Mayr in Garching, where the employment will also take place.

Please send your application (letter of motivation with max. 300 words) stating your earliest starting date, CV in tabular form, and copies of the most important certificates (summarized in one pdf file) via e-mail by 31.01.2025 at the latest to: hiring_am@tum-venture-labs.de with the subject TUM VL AM PMO - Operations Manager

Additional Information: 

The position is initially limited to two (2) years, with employment and compensation according to TV-L E13. As an equal-opportunity employer, we strongly encourage applications from women and all others who would add to our diversity. Applicants with disabilities will be given preference in cases of equal qualification. 

For general questions about the position, reach out to Dr.-Ing. Sascha Schwarz, Managing Director TUM Venture Lab Additive Manufacturing

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