Head of Engineering

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HEAD OF ENGINEERING - Cambridge, ON

An international group focused on designing, manufacturing, and integrating specialized computing platforms and complex systems for industries requiring high levels of reliability and performance for critical, certified, and/or challenging applications. We enable organizations across multiple sectors to deploy innovative and complex technical solutions to meet their operational objectives via specialized computers, tablets, complex electro-mechanical systems, and smart edge IoT platforms. We operate across seven core sectors: defense, healthcare, energy, communications, automation, transport, and leisure.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manage technical services team, distributed through multiple locations.
• Organize and structure the department to best deliver technical services to internal and external stakeholders and for future scaling in line with the Company’s growth forecasts.
• Engagement with Sales, Operations, Finance, ITC, Security, and HR to support business objectives.
• Management, work planning, scheduling, and review of work to deliver function-specific outputs and defined milestones to business stakeholders.
• Definition, setting, monitoring, and management of Objective and Key Results (OKRs) for the department, teams, and individuals.
• Participation in the setting of the group and department budget and managing to budget with monthly reviews.
• Provision of leadership for the maintenance of appropriate levels of discipline, monitored controls, and correction to maintain consistency to brand values, culture, and work schedule.
• Regular review and management of the Skills Matrix to ensure the department has the appropriate skills and capacity required to deliver business objectives.
• Mentoring, coaching, and provisioning of constructive feedback to department staff.
• Management of multiple concurrent multi-disciplinary projects with weekly review, prioritizing and reporting, resulting in on-time and on-budget completion.
• Management and technical oversight of design reviews and key milestones to ensure quality standards are maintained.
• Oversee feasibility analysis, project scoping, resource planning, and cost estimating for project activities.
• Management of compliance and certification through collaboration with the quality departments.
• Management of actions, issues, risks, opportunities, dependencies through the project duration.
• Analysis of lessons learned and improvement actions.
• Management and sign-off of contractual, technical change control, customer acceptance, and staged invoicing of NRE deliverables.
• Architecture and design authority responsibility for solutions and products from inception to end of life.
• Oversee and approve the technical output of the department ensuring compliance with customer requirements and specifications.
• Ensure designs are optimized for purpose, reliability, and manufacturability.
• Provide subject matter expertise for engineering design in Mechanical, Electrical, Electronic, and Software engineering as appropriate.
• Maintain best-in-class subject matter expertise, coordinating knowledge sharing and technical training.
• Ensure smooth NPI handover to production, including BOM, build instructions, training, and ongoing support.
• Control and separation of existing and newly created IPR in design and documentation.
• Customer-facing involvement in the promotion of the business and understanding customer technology needs.
• Delivery of Opportunity Support Requests (OSRs) on time and to agreed standards.
• Preparation and review of product business cases in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Participation in the promotion of technical value proposition to prospects and customers.
• Validation and sign-off of NRE estimations from across the Company.
• Management progression via a professional engineering route.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum of a formal technical/engineering qualification, preferably a degree in a Mechanical, Electro-Mechanical or Electronics Engineering Discipline.
• Strong knowledge of Process and Project Management.
• Evidence of continuous ongoing self-development & education.
• Lean or Six Sigma preferred.
• Full & clean driving license.
• Engineering Management role with a minimum of 5+ years track record in senior leadership.
• Experience managing remote and international teams.
• Proven experience in people management of multi-disciplinary technical teams.
• Experienced budget setter/holder.
• Experience with product designs to meet industry and regulatory compliance standards.
• Customer/market facing technical experience in an industrial B2B market sector.
• Proven experience in leading and project managing innovation, NPD, and NPI.
• Experience in maintaining and working in a professional methodology aligned to the ISO:9001 quality standard.
• Sector experience in one or more of: Defense, Medical, Transport, Automation, Energy or Communications.
• Experience in the preparation and presentation of technical proposals.
• Experience working for OKRs.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Engineering, Manufacturing, and Production

Industries

Motor Vehicle Manufacturing, Defense and Space Manufacturing, and Oil and Gas