LPBF Additive Manufacturing Technician

Responsibilities

• Run the LPBF machines.
• Set up, monitor and shut down LPBF builds, including plate, recoater and inert gas.
• Check orientation, supports and plate layout, and tell engineering what will print reliably.
• Own the powder.
• Filter changes, cleaning, preventive maintenance and first-level troubleshooting.
• Recover from failures.
• Secure the data, find the cause, then restart.
• Document.
• Build records and non-conformities per EN9100, traceable to every serial number.

The Role

• Prepare builds.
• Sieving, storage and lot traceability, with strict safety discipline on reactive powders.
• Post-process.
• Depowdering, stress relief, plate and support removal, and handover to machining and metrology.
• Maintain.

What We're Looking For

2+ years hands-on LPBF experience in an industrial environment, ideally aerospace, defense, medical or energy.

Machine fluency.

You have run and maintained LPBF systems on your own (e.g. EOS, SLM/Nikon, Trumpf, Renishaw, Colibrium Additive). You know what a recoater crash, short feed or a rising oxygen level looks like and what to do about it.

Powder safety.

You know how to handle reactive metal powders safely: inerting, grounding, ATEX awareness, wet separators, PPE.

Process understanding.

You understand how orientation, supports and parameters affect distortion, porosity and surface quality.

Quality mindset.

You document cleanly and treat traceability as part of the job. Experience in an EN9100 or ISO 13485 environment is a plus.

Hands-on.

You depowder, clean, change filters and saw plates yourself.

Language

Fluent German for the shop floor, working English for the team in Zurich.

On-site

Based in Munich, working on site at Factory ONE.

What we're not looking for

• Operators who press start and walk away. Each build gets your attention until the part is off the plate.
• Anyone who restarts a crashed job without understanding the cause.
• People who take shortcuts with powder safety or traceability.
• Anyone who needs every procedure written out before acting. You help write them.

Mission

Rebuild the industrial sovereignty of the West. Your builds become mission-critical hardware.

Growth path

You work directly with our LPBF lead and grow with the metal AM floor, with the option to lead your own sub-team as it scales.

Ownership

You run the metal AM floor from day one and shape how it scales.

The Environment

A greenfield factory with metal AM, SLS, 5-axis CNC and in-house metrology, in a data-driven production environment.

The Team

Close collaboration with engineering, quality, software and robotics. "Special Forces" model: everyone ships, no politics, no bureaucracy.

Compensation

Competitive salary incl. share options.

Location

Factory ONE, Munich.

Resume

Show us the LPBF systems, materials and parts you have worked with.

Cover letter

Why this mission? Why now? And describe a build that failed: what caused it, and what you changed afterwards.