System Engineering Sub-Discipline Manager
System Engineering Sub-Discipline Manager
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This position is Hybrid Halifax/Ottawa or Victoria
Systems Engineering SubDiscipline Manager
Position Summary
The Systems Engineering SubDiscipline Manager provides System Engineering support throughout the project life cycle from requirements analysis and design through development integration test and acceptance to integrate electronic systems on commercial and military platforms. The Systems Engineering SubDiscipline Manager supports the Manager Systems Engineering in inspiring and catalysing the improvement of best practices processes tools and governance within the Systems Engineering discipline ensuring that they are mastered effectively. They act as a primary point of contact on complex subjects and take on an educational role so that their team can reach discipline excellence and deliver competitive solutions within a multidisciplinary environment. They are a mentor and coach serving the disciplines engineers and offering a diverse and inclusive environment. They are the guardians of an engineering discipline excellence in a learning environment which contribute to our highly competitive advantage.
Key Areas of Responsibility
As a Resource Manager
- Provides appropriate resources to deliver bids projects and products
- Plans the teams workload in the short medium and long term
- Develops team skills to support bids projects and products
- Supports recruitment onboarding performance management career management and succession planning for the team
- Coaches mentors and develops the team
- Leads the team to meet company expectations for productivity chargeability quality continuous improvement and accomplishment of objectives
- Ensures that company policies and procedures are followed including timesheets time off and travel
As an Engineering Manager supports the Manager Systems Engineering
- In the establishment standardization and evolution of processes procedures and tooling for the discipline
- In ensuring that the discipline processes procedures and tooling meet the current and future needs of the bids projects and products
- In the development of lessons learned and the sharing of knowledge and experience across the discipline
- Foster continuous improvement based on root cause analysis problem solving and new practice deployment
- For bid project and product estimates for the discipline and subdisciplines
As a member of the Systems Engineering team
- Responsible for performing SysEng work on bids projects and products
- You have the ability to adopt a holistic approach to analyse a system focusing on the way that a systems constituent parts interrelate and how systems work over time and within the context of larger systems
- You are able to understand the system capabilities through functional logical and value analytics
- You understand the importance of requirements definition through a process using performance analysis trade studies constraint evaluation and cost/benefit analysis
- You are able to adopt a Model Based Systems Engineering and see how it serves as a basis for architecture
- You have notions of IVVQ (Integration/Verification/Validation/Qualification) RAMT (Reliability/Maintainability/Availability/Testability) and associated norms and standards
Minimum Requirements
- An engineering degree or 3year technical program diploma in a technical field from a recognized university or college program or certified as a technologist by a recognized provincial state or federal (national) licensing body in a related field
- A minimum of 2 years of experience in the last 10 years managing a SysEng team; A minimum of 2 years of experience in the last 10 years of responsibility for SysEng functions and a minimum of 1 year of experience in the last 10 years as a Systems Engineering Manager for a Capital or InService Support contract.
- Expertise in at least one SysEng tool; Expertise in at least one SysEng standard; Expertise in Requirements Management
- A minimum of 2 years of experience as a people or resource manager; A minimum of 2 years of experience managing a budget
Preferred Qualifications
- A Masters degree in Engineering Science or a related field
- Management of budget worth at least 200k CAD
- Experience in the Defence industry
Special Position Requirements
- Schedule: 40 hours per week. Hybrid position a mix of working from home.
- Travel: Occasional national and international travel. About 4 times per year.
What We Offer
- Thales provides an extensive benefits program for all fulltime employees working 24 or more hours per week and their eligible dependents including the following:
- Company paid Extended Health Dental HSA Life AD&D Shortterm Disability Cancer Care Program travel insurance Employee Assistance Plan and WellBeing program.
- Retirement Savings Plans (RRSP DCPP TFSA) with a company contribution and a match to a DCPP with no vesting period.
- Company paid holidays vacation days and paid sick leave.
- Voluntary Life AD&D Critical Illness LongTerm Disability.
- Employee Discounts on home auto and gym membership.
Why Join Us
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This position requires direct or indirect access to hardware software or technical information controlled under the Canadian Export Control List the Canadian Controlled Goods Program the Canadian Industrial Security Program the US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and/or the US Export Administration Regulations (EAR). All applicants must be eligible or able to obtain authorization for such access including eligibility to the Canadian Controlled Goods Program and able to obtain a Canadian NATO Secret clearance.Required Experience:
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