# Mechanical Engineer Technical Lead at Kreiosspace > Spain · Staff · Software engineering · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/personio%3Akreiosspace%3A2876725 (read 2026-11-09). ## Facts (observed) - Company: [Kreiosspace](https://alderhq.app/companies/kreiosspace) - Location text: Nigrán, Spain - Where it can be done from (inferred): Spain (evidence: "Location: Nigrán, Spain") - Posted: 2026-11-05 (4 days ago) - First seen by alder: 2026-11-08 · last verified: 2026-11-08 - Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times - Apply on the employer's site: https://kreiosspace.jobs.personio.de/job/2876725 ## Pay and sponsorship - Posted pay: not posted - Market band for similar posted roles (Spain, n 8): p25 €80k, median €86k, p75 €115k ## Description (the employer's text) ### Your mission ensuring compliance with agreed-upon requirements, milestones, and deadlines. 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 different perspectives, foster their autonomy, and promote their growth. The primary focus will be the development of IOD2, a satellite platform weighing approximately 500 kg. Some of your responsibilities will be: - Lead, 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 among the engineers. - Plan capacity, resources, and workload across projects; agree on priorities and deadlines, anticipate dependencies, and manage deviations with specific action plans. - Assume 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. - Represent the Mechanical Engineering department in dealings with Systems, Electronics, Propulsion, AIT, and project management; align requirements, interfaces, deliverables, and acceptance criteria. - Lead the high-level mechanical definition: configuration, structure, materials, joints, integration, and trade-offs between mass, stiffness, thermal behavior, cost, and schedule. - 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. - Ensure 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. - Identify 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. ### Your profile - A degree in Mechanical, Industrial, or Aerospace Engineering, or equivalent technical training, with at least 10 years of relevant experience in mechanical product development. - Demonstrable experience in managing people and technical leadership: delegation, professional development, feedback, collaboration, and resolving conflicting priorities. - Open, results-oriented, and people-focused leadership: ability to listen to different perspectives, make decisions judgmentally, and empower the team to work autonomously. - Track record as a mechanical engineering manager, team lead, or principal engineer with team management or technical authority over a department or product. - Previous hands-on experience in mechanical design and analysis; ability to question hypotheses, loads, boundary conditions, and simulation results, and to demand sufficient technical evidence. - Solid knowledge of mechanical assemblies, tolerances, materials, fasteners, manufacturing, and integration; ability to evaluate structural and thermal trade-offs in collaboration with specialists. - Experience coordinating multidisciplinary requirements and interfaces, taking hardware from concept to manufacturing and validation, and ensuring milestones, deliverables, and deadlines are met. - Clear communication skills, the ability to make decisions with incomplete information, professional-level English, and a genuine willingness to work on-site in Nigrán. - 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. - 15 or more years of experience managing teams with both junior and senior members. - Experience with CAD/FEM tools, PDM or PLM systems, and planning for teams working on multiple projects. ### Why us? At 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. We 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. What we offer: - The opportunity to work on technology with real product impact. - A collaborative and innovative environment where you can contribute from day one. - Meaningful technical challenges and the chance to work close to the final product. - Continuous learning and professional growth opportunities. - A strong team culture and a genuinely positive working environment. - An on-site role in Porto do Molle (Nigrán). - Fresh fruit in the office every week, plus coffee and milk always available. --- Data: alder (https://alderhq.app). Cite https://alderhq.app/jobs/personio%3Akreiosspace%3A2876725 and the date you read it. Observed facts come from the employer's own listing; location reach, level, family and skills are inferences.