Sub Discipline Manager

Thales Canada Inc., Defence and Security is seeking an Integration, Verification, Validation, and Qualification (IVVQ) Sub-Discipline Manager who provides IVVQ support throughout the project life cycle from requirements analysis, through development, integration, test and acceptance to integrate, verify, and validate commercial and/or military systems and products. The IVVQ Sub-Discipline Manager supports the Manager/HOD of IVVQ in terms of team management and discipline management.

Key Areas of Responsibility:

• Resource Manager Responsibilities:
• Provides appropriate resources to deliver bids, projects and products.
• Plans the team's workload over 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.
• Be accountable to both the IVVQ Manager/HOD and the company for their team.
• Engineering Manager Responsibilities:
• Establishes, standardizes and evolves processes, procedures and tooling for the discipline.
• Ensures that the discipline processes, procedures and tooling meet the current and future needs of the bids, projects and products.
• Develops lessons learned and shares knowledge and experience across the discipline.
• Fosters continuous improvement based on root cause analysis, problem solving and new practice deployment.
• Supports bid, project and product estimates for the discipline and sub-disciplines.
• IVVQ Engineering Team Responsibilities:
• Responsible for performing IVVQ work on bids, projects and products.
• Adopts a holistic approach to analyse a system, focusing on the way that a system's constituent parts interrelate.
• Understands the importance of requirements definition and tracking.
• Has notions of Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, R-A-M-T (Reliability/Maintainability/Availability/Testability), and associated norms and standards.

Minimum Qualifications:

• An engineering degree, 3-year 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 licensing body in a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• A minimum of 6 years of experience in the last 10 years of IVVQ experience.
• A minimum of 2 years of experience in the last 10 years managing an IVVQ team, project, or product.
• Expertise in at least one IVVQ tool.
• Expertise in at least one IVVQ standard.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.

Additional Requirements:

• Team player with good interpersonal skills and fosters collaborative work.
• Strong understanding of IVVQ processes and how they interact with other engineering disciplines.
• Willingness to engage and develop your team.
• Able to clearly determine and communicate status.
• Able to prioritize the use of resources.

Preferred Qualifications:

• A University degree in Engineering, Science, or a related field.
• Management of budget worth at least 200k CAD.
• Experience in the Defence industry.
• Fluency in French.

Special Position Requirements:

• Occasional national and international travel, about 4 times per year.

Salary: Minimum: 125000, Maximum: 125000