Section Chief, Stress Engineering

What are your contributions to the team?

• Participate in the recruitment and integration of new employees.
• Establish employee’s yearly objectives, evaluate the employee’s performance, and make salary and career progression recommendations.
• Ensure a good, positive and healthy working environment for the employees (communication, recognition, coaching, and career development plans/opportunities).
• Ensure adequate engineering resources are allocated to the tasks to support aircraft development and support production and in-service issue resolution for Bombardier Defense aircraft.
• Manage and resolve priority conflicts within own department and with internal customers.
• Be accountable for your group’s performance – deliver on-time, within budget and with quality to support the business objectives.
• Participate in the organization of departmental governance.
• Provide visibility on the execution, issues and escalations, as needed, to your Manager/Director.
• Participate in budget preparation and have accountability for managing financial resource.
• Identify cost reduction opportunities.
• Identify training required to support to the business needs.
• Develop or adapt tools and processes as needed by the function in order to meet our organizational objectives.
• Manage the Structures Supplier(s) and establish weekly technical coordination meetings to meet program commitments.
• Understands customer requirements and support preparation of formal, controlled engineering documentation (i.e. structural analysis reports, specifications, etc.).

How to thrive in this role?

• You hold a Bachelor of Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering degree.
• You have at least 10 years in the aerospace industry with good understanding of Stress requirements, FAR’s, and the design process (concept, PDR, CDR, etc.).
• You have at least 2 years of positive management experience with direct reports.
• Per US ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations) Requirements, must be a U.S. Citizen or U.S. Permanent Resident (Green Card Holder). 
• You must be able to work on ITAR restricted content.
• You should have an understanding of civil aircraft certification rules and experience in certification procedures.
• You are a team player, working in a multidisciplinary team and can demonstrate strong organizational and managerial skills (planning structure and prioritization).
• You have knowledge of change management and configuration management.
• You have experience with both development and sustaining programs.