Section Chief, Stress Integration

What are your contributions to the team?

• Manage a team of Stress Specialists on Sustaining Airworthiness
• 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
• 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 resources.
• Identify cost reduction opportunities.
• Identify training and travel required to support 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

How to thrive in this role?

• You hold a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering degree.
• You have 10+ years in the aerospace industry with good understanding of Stress requirements, tools and solutions.

• You have previous experience in Aircraft Structural substantiation analysis.

• You are a team player, working in a multidisciplinary team and can demonstrate strong organizational and managerial skills (planning structure and prioritization)
• You are creative in finding ways to resolve problems
• You have experience with supplier management
• You have knowledge of Change Management and Configuration Management
• You are organized/self-motivated and bilingual (French, English) with strong verbal/written English skills
• You have knowledge Continuing Airworthiness (Asset)
• You have experience with both development and sustaining programs. (Asset)