Director, Research and Development Aerospace Manufacturing

1 month ago

Toronto ON, Canada Stonewood Group Inc. Full time

The company has grown by focusing on customer success and by assembling a fully-integrated, skilled team of experts in high frequency circuits and systems, communication and radar subsystem design, engineering and custom manufacturing.
The firm is uniquely vertically integrated through all key functions including RFIC design in GaAs, GaN, SiGe and CMOS, thin film manufacturing, automated HMIC (Hybrid Microwave Integrated Circuit) Assembly, CNC machining, PC Board population, and system integration and test, allowing responsive, high quality support of customers’ demanding requirements. The firm’s expertise in developing customized RF and electro-optic sensing and communications solutions makes our client a critical partner in commercial aerospace, defense, industrial, medical, space and SatCom markets.
Our client consistently invests heavily in IR&D and boasts a large engineering team with most having advanced degrees in their realms of specialization. In the past few years our client has further augmented its R&D footprint by developing strategic research partnerships at selected universities in Canada and the US.
Our client occupies a 65,000 square foot state-of-the-art engineering and manufacturing facility in Toronto including Class 1000 to 10,000 clean rooms. The firm’s systems maintain compliance to AS9100C and ISO9001:2008 and encompass all the core capabilities needed for end-to-end electronic product development, redesign and life cycle maintenance. The firm also maintains a second facility in Canada.
To best serve US customers with ITAR restrictions, and to provide a 2nd source with identical capability, our client has also established a US-based design and manufacturing facility focused on MMIC and high power device design.
Reporting to the President and CEO, the Director of Programmes leads a team responsible for the successful delivery of all our client’s programmes/projects.
The Director of Programmes will on the one hand play a key strategic role in ensuring that our client has the processes and disciplines in place to deliver programme management excellence. They will own the vision for the programme management function ensuring that it is architected in a manner so that programmes are selected, prioritized, linked and executed to satisfy customers’ demand while achieving optimum benefits for the company including a strong profit margin for each programme.
The successful candidate will be responsible for the operational success of all programs, seamless team management and development, program tracking, quality control and evaluation and be the key interface to the primary program stakeholders. They will move projects along holding regular project reviews with his/her team, senior management and the customer.
While managing multiple complex projects, the Director of Programs will track spending, adjust budgets, hire and review employees, look for gaps in work efficiency, communicate with their team and operational colleagues and suggest and execute timely changes to plans as needed.
Assess current programme management organization, techniques and tools and make recommendations
Assess team and ensure that they have the training, tools and support to be successful
Coordinate and manage resource allocation.
Provide regular program status updates to company management.
Escalate when necessary from the project managers and proactively identify challenges with schedules;
Work with staff to develop objective performance measurements are in place, to ensure consistent, high-quality evaluation and goal setting for all employees;
Ensure deliverables are being completed within baseline time scales, cost plans and the expectation of the customer while being aware of net project cash flow;
Establish and implement a system and tools with which to measure continuous quality improvement projects. Monitor completed projects to ensure expected benefits are fully realized and sustained.
Report regularly and proactively to senior management on progress and issues that affect successful program execution.
Demonstrates critical technical or professional knowledge/skills related to the role. Expands technical knowledge/skills and keeps up-to-date in own area of expertise.
Able to stand back from immediate problems in order to focus on more far reaching ideas.
Aims to improve upon past performance. Planning & Objective Setting
Is realistic about time-scales and builds in appropriate checkpoints, milestones and controls in order to ensure that desired results are realized.
Draws parallels across situations and contexts. Routinely performs program risk and mitigation analyses.
Quickly follows up on customer/client contacts and complaints. Key Performance Deliverables
The following indicates specific industry, and functional experience/qualifications that are important to the successful achievement of the identified responsibilities and performance deliverables.
~ Bachelor’s degree, in a technical or engineering discipline. Postgraduate degree considered an asset.
~5-10 years of experience in programme management within large complex programme environments
~ Space, Aerospace or Defense experience is an asset
~ Hands-on design experience in one of following areas would an asset: Reliability engineering, Electronic packaging, high reliability electronics manufacturing.
~ Team management role, juggling scarce technical resources across a multidisciplinary, matrixed organization.
~ Demonstrated success developing, evaluating and delivering medium/large complex multimillion-dollar programs with challenging customers and international environments.
~ Experience with project tracking and productivity tools such as Microsoft Project, Primavera, Excel or other software tools used for tracking multiple projects and competing resources.
~ Experience in people management roles with recruitment, selection, hiring, coaching, feedback, employee engagement, and performance management.
~ Ability to multi-task and manage a demanding and diverse workload.
~ Proven strong business skills with demonstrated strategic and program management experience.
~ Excellent written and verbal communication skills in the English language
~ Experience in growing, mid-sized growth-oriented private manufacturing companies would be an asset.
~ Strong team orientation well suited to building consensus
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