Sustaining Manager – Onsite

We’re looking for a hands-on, self-motivated Sustaining Engineering Manager with a background in product development and a proven track record of successfully managing sustaining product development and manufacturing support. You will be responsible for leading a cross-functional team, organizing support of product manufacturing-related activities, and ensuring objectives are accomplished to meet the business and customer objectives. Note, this role is in a fast-paced environment with many variables and daily challenges.

Your Challenge:

• Supervise a highly knowledgeable and motivated team of engineering staff.
• Responsible for the work assignments of staff allocated to the Sustaining Team.
• Responsible for the career development, training and performance evaluations of staff allocated to the Sustaining Team.
• Promote quality standards and procedures and create a work environment of continuous improvement.
• Support all phases of product development by attending key reviews to ensure sustaining needs are met during new product design.
• Participate in bid activities such as developing technical proposals and providing detailed cost and schedule estimates.
• Experience with leading Engineering Change Requests (ECR) to the completion of the Engineering Change Order (ECO) to support development and manufacturing.
• Interact with manufacturing and quality to aid in sustaining efforts surrounding product lines.
• Acts as a liaison between Sustaining Engineering and R&D.
• Supports the RWS department in analyzing field failures, resolving technical related issues, and solving technical problems.
• Supports the Production and Quality departments in analyzing production failures, resolving technical related issues, and solving technical problems.
• Supervises and schedules the creation of product variants.
• Supervises and schedules the evaluation of obsolete part replacements.
• Provides technical direction and guidance, as well as hands-on project management for all initiatives related to sustaining engineering.
• Other responsibilities as directed by management.

What You Bring:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, Technologist Diploma or equivalent will be considered.
• 8 years industry experience relating to electronics computing. Prior experience in a managerial or leadership role is preferred.
• Demonstrated creativity, foresight, and mature engineering judgment in anticipating and solving unprecedented engineering problems.
• Demonstrated drive and ability to achieve goals in an innovative and fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and able to react to shifting priorities to meet business needs.
• The candidate should be a results-oriented team player who leads by example, holds themselves accountable for performance, takes ownership of their responsibilities, and champions process improvement initiatives.
• Outstanding interpersonal and presentation skills - both written and verbal; to liaise with internal and external customers.
• Self-confident leader capable of motivating and mentoring their staff.
• Hands-on leader and comfortable walking the floor.
• High attention to detail and solid engineering background.
• Ability to estimate/schedule development projects.
• Experience/familiarity in the following is an asset: Development of electronic assemblies for aerospace applications, Design for manufacturing processes and techniques, Design for rugged environments, Open system standards such as VME, VPX, XMC and PMC, Leading-edge Intel and NXP/Qualcomm processors (x86, PA, ARM), Leading-edge Broadcom Ethernet Switches, High-end FPGA design, Latest embedded industry technologies, such as Gen 3/4 PCI Express, 40GbE Ethernet, USB 3, DDR4 memory, etc., Working knowledge of PCB technologies including stack up definition, material selection, IPC etc., Experience with product configuration management (Agile PLM), Python scripting.

Compliance Statement: This position may require exposure to export-controlled information and subject to additional security screening. In the event information provided during the security screening reveals ineligibility to access export-controlled information, any offer of employment may be reconsidered or withdrawn. Curtiss-Wright is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sexual orientation, gender identity, physical or mental disability, age, ancestry, legally protected medical condition, family care status, marital status, religion, veteran status, national origin, or any other legally protected status. If you require accommodation during the recruitment process, please contact Talent Acquisition.