Everything We.OHB

The mood is casual. He leans back in his office chair as far as the backrest will go. Laid back. And who’s sitting in the office chair? Christian Fischer, head of the OHB training department. He took over the department at the beginning of the year and likes to work in a “busy” atmosphere, pragmatically and with humor. His mission is to address the shortage of skilled workers and to provide OHB with highly trained employees.

Her mission: Checking, testing, inspecting. Recognizable by: A green lab coat. Her name: Viktoria Schöneich. In her green lab coat, the graduate aerospace engineer regularly mixes with the AIT employees in the OHB integration hall and checks whether all the work and production steps meet the high quality standards required.

Family businesses such as OHB are based on human relationships. That’s why working at OHB is something very special according to Lutz Bartels.

Kenneth Schmitz has been interested in astrophysics and space travel for many years. Aged 33, he has been working at OHB as a satellite systems engineer. He talks in this interview about his work as well as his dedication to black holes.

5G is currently not only a hot topic in the mobile communications world but is also for OHB’s Future Telecommunications department. 5G will change people’s lives according to project manager Anna Chrobry.

A lab coat, hairnet and overshoes – for Ronja Sauerland, these accessories are part of her normal work wear. The 27-year-old quality assurance engineer commutes daily between the cleanroom and the office wing.

"Wanted: Frontfighter for space projects!" OHB engineer Jean Lorenz is looking for E-AIT specialists to expand his team.

Why does a graduate in aerospace engineering at the University of Stuttgart come to Bremen? “Because OHB offers me a major advantage over other places in Germany in which space companies are based. Bremen is a very interesting and liveable city. And when I first started here, I found exactly the task that appealed to me because of the mix of technology and management elements,” is how Marek Dittmar answer.

When Anna-Maria Kollenbrandt entered the foyer of OHB’s headquarters in Bremen on the day of her job interview and saw the various exhibits, her enthusiasm was immediately aroused. Between the 1:1 SAR-Lupe and Galileo models, she was immediately infected by space fever. That was five years ago and the 33-year-old has been working at OHB in the Procurement Management department for various satellite missions ever since.

Andrea Jaime, 32, graduated as an Aerospace Engineer in Barcelona, knew since she was little that her passion was space, so all her education and professional trajectory has been focused on building up her expertise in the space sector.

After one and a half years with the company, Felix Hübner already feels like an “old hand” at OHB. This should not come as any surprise given that in 2018 alone about 200 new recruits joined OHB’s Bremen headquarters. The 29-year-old software developer completed his doctorate in computer science parallel to his full-time job in the Software Verification & Validation department.

Antonella Sgambati welcomes all visitors to her office with a warm smile. A system engineer with Italian roots, she has been with OHB’s Human Spaceflight Department (HSF) for seven years and clearly derives a great deal of pleasure from her job. After all, she deals with a lot of other people, a fact that is also implied in the name of her department, namely “Human Spaceflight”.