Supervisor - Digital and Analog Hardware Design Department
MDA
- Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Recruits employees, assigns, directs and evaluates their work. Monitors and manages overall employee performance, conducts annual performance appraisals and sets individual objectives.
- Provides staffing expertise to support the demand of Programs, R&D, and Business Development. Ensures that staffing supports the demand of current and future MDA programs.
- Develops staff to ensure necessary skill sets. Establishes and regularly updates succession plans for key skills to avoid single point failures and bottlenecks in resource allocation.
- Ensures group competency remains abreast of state of the art techniques in the respective engineering/manufacturing / support service disciplines.
- Ensures staff works in an environment fostering innovation and evolution to maximize their satisfaction within the constraints of the business, supporting career planning, providing regular feedbacks and celebrating successes.
- Oversees engineering facilities, processes, and tools required to support department activities and program needs.
- Identifies and manages facility conflicts between all programs for flight or development activities as appropriate to the department.
- Supports management of departmental overhead budget within allocation and provides forecasts to finance as required.
- Supports coordination of capital planning for the department. Proposes necessary capital investment items with proper financial justification and implements the procurement.
- Ensures the proper application of the company’s collective agreements.
- Participates in or leads Technical Overview Board (TOB) meetings.
- Coordinates and ensures distribution of lessons learned.
- Supports internal and external audits and ensure corrective actions are implemented as required.
- Promotes a Design for Manufacturing (DFM) culture.
- Participates in or leads technical troubleshooting and problem solving.
- Provides expert support to MRBs and customer enquiries where needed.
- Ensures proper application and adherence to overall company policies and processes by staff in the department.
- Supports development and maintenance of departmental specific policies, processes, work instructions and standards and ensures they are available to, and followed by staff.
- Proposes and leads new initiatives, or participates in initiatives for business process improvement (BPI) to improve departmental or global efficiency.
- Acts as the area owner and ensures all Health & Safety procedures and policies are adhered to and maintained.
- Provides support and participate in proposal activities
- Makes recommendations to the product development organisation for new products and R&D initiatives in line with the company’s strategic direction.
- Supports and coordinates patent applications in conjunction with the product development organisation. Ensures that the company’s trade secrets and proprietary information is protected and handled securely.
- Currently an engineering employee of MDA
- Minimum 5 years experience in the field of engineering / manufacturing preferably in the space industry or related area.
- Candidate must have demonstrated superior ability for people skills, conflict resolution and leadership skills.
- Career aspirations to managing teams of people in a dynamic environment.
- Experience or interest in developing skills in resource management, negotiations, risk management techniques and financial reporting.
- Good communicator in French and English (written and spoken).
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