Director of Engineering

Arrow Engineered Products Stratford, ON is an engineering-focused solution provider of machined castings, fabrications, and assemblies. We serve OEM customers across various industries, including rail, material handling, mining, defense, heavy truck, agriculture, power systems, construction, nuclear, engineered products, architecture, and forestry. Arrow focuses on providing innovative design, quality craftsmanship, and exceptional customer service.

At Arrow Engineered Products, we design and manufacture turnkey solutions for a wide range of customers with needs in nuclear, chemical mixing, heat exchanger, and autoclave systems, including fuel storage and various custom-designed pressure and non-pressure systems, all in compliance with ASME, PED, ULC, and API certified design criteria.

Compensation Range: $160,000 up to $180,000 annually

Position Summary: Reporting to the VP/General Manager, the Director of Engineering leads engineering and quality across Cambridge North, Stratford, and Woodstock, with all engineering resources and the Quality Manager reporting directly to the role. As AEP's code authority, you will own our ASME and TSSA Certificates of Authorization for ASME Section III and VIII, CSA B51 and CSA N285/N299 work. You will protect Quality's independent stop-work authority, develop the team, and grow AEP into new markets. This is not a desk role: you will personally review critical designs, solve fabrication problems on the shop floor, and stand behind our product with customers and auditors. Must hold a P.Eng. license with Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO).

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead the engineering and quality organization directly — Quality Manager, Project Supervisors, Mechanical Designers and Estimating — including hiring, performance management, development planning and succession.
• Establish and enforce engineering standards, procedures, design templates and calculation methodologies across all facilities.
• Review and approve engineering deliverables and estimates, ensuring alignment with project scope, specification, quality and customer requirements.
• Own the engineering and quality budget, resource plan and technology roadmap, including CAD, code calculation software, quality/document management systems and ERP integration.
• Provide regular reporting to the Vice President / General Manager on engineering and quality performance, capacity, certificate status, risk and capability development.

Certificates of Authority & Quality Management System:

• Serve as the named accountable owner of AEP’s Certificates of Authority and quality programs, including ASME Certificates of Authorization and all associated registrations, ensuring they are maintained, renewed and extended in step with the business plan.
• Own the Quality Assurance Manual and the quality management system as a whole, including the policies, procedures and program documents that AEP’s engineers design to and work under, and approve all revisions to them.
• Direct the Quality Manager in the execution of the quality program — internal and external audits, supplier qualification and surveillance, calibration, document and records control, training and qualification records, nonconformance and corrective action.
• Ensure the Quality Manager exercises independent authority to identify quality problems, stop work, place holds and control the disposition of nonconforming material.
• Maintain, for every certificate held, a clear line of sight between the code and customer requirements, the engineering practices that satisfy them and the objective evidence that demonstrates compliance.

Code Authority & Nuclear Quality Program:

• Serve as AEP’s senior technical authority for pressure-retaining and nuclear-class work, including design responsibility under ASME BPVC Section III, Division 1 and Section VIII, Division 1.
• Own and maintain the quality assurance program supporting AEP’s ASME Certificates of Authorization, including the requirements of Subsection NCA-3800 and ASME NQA-1.
• Maintain compliance with CSA N285.0 for pressure-retaining systems and components in CANDU nuclear power plants.
• Own design registration and certification deliverables, including TSSA design registration and CRN submissions.
• Hold final approval authority on estimates for custom machining and fabrication work.

Manufacturing Integration & Continuous Improvement:

• Ensure designs are executable by AEP’s actual fabrication and machining capability.
• Partner with Operations on weld procedure development and qualification.
• Drive timely resolution of non-conformances, corrective actions and design changes without compromising code position.
• Lead measurable improvement in engineering throughput, estimating accuracy, first-time-right documentation and quality escape reduction.

Education, Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related discipline.
• Licensed Professional Engineer (P.Eng.), Ontario.
• 12+ years in metal fabrication, machining and pressure equipment engineering, including 5+ years leading and developing engineering teams.
• Demonstrated design and/or fabrication responsibility under ASME BPVC Section III, Division 1.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Leadership Attributes:

• A developer of people, who measures success partly by the capability of those they leave behind.
• A collaborator by instinct, able to build trust across departments and across sites.
• Calm and decisive under schedule and commercial pressure.
• Protective of the independence of the quality function.

What We Offer – Your Benefits Package:

• Health, dental, and vision coverage from day one!
• Virtual healthcare with Lumino Health.
• Employee and Family Assistance Program (Homewood Health).
• Fitness membership discount.
• Three weeks vacation days to start.

Arrow is committed to diversity and inclusion. We provide accommodations throughout the recruitment process in line with the Human Rights Code and Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act.