Mission Systems

We’re on the hunt for a **Mission Systems & Operations Supervisor** on our **Robotics & Space Operations** team at our **Brampton**office.

With 40 years of operational experience and proven performance on the iconic Canadarm programs including Space Shuttle and International Space Station robotics and operations support, our Robotics & Space Operations team has 100% mission success in making space dreams come true.

The Supervisor is a member of the leadership team and reports to the Manager, Engineering of Mission Operations. The supervisor manages a section of a large size engineering department (across three different geographic locations - Brampton, Houston and St Hubert), through developing and maintaining a workforce with the key technical skills necessary to ensure proper execution and delivery of the company’s products and projects. The Supervisor will manage recruitment, development, engagement and retention, and succession planning within their team.

In addition, the incumbent will support the Manager, Engineering with departmental activities such as technological roadmap development, continuous improvement, modernization of engineering practices, and customer satisfaction. They will support the adoption of next-generation engineering tools, techniques, and procedures to increase competitiveness in their discipline area.

**Responsibilities**:
**Resource Management**:

- 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 Space 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 feedback 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
- Supports development of DREAMR lab capabilities (Brampton & Houston) and utilization across all program needs and company initiatives
- Support of the Zero-G mixed reality lab

**Technical overview**:

- Coordinates and ensures distribution of lessons learned
- Supports internal and external audits and ensure corrective actions are implemented as required
- Participates in or leads technical troubleshooting and problem solving
- Provides expert support to customer enquiries where needed
- Supports design needs for the DREAMR lab development and program demands
- 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

**Front End of the Business**:

- Provides support and participate in proposal activities
- Makes recommendations to the product development organization for new products and R&D initiatives in line with the company’s strategic direction
- Ensures that the company’s trade secrets and proprietary information is protected and handled securely
- Provides support to customers for capability/technology demonstrations and for public outreach events
- Supports business case development to align with business finance planning and company support for the DREAMR Lab
- Supports conferences to showcase our mission operations capabilities and discuss potential partnerships for future developments
- Performs other tasks as required such as; leading proposals at the front end of the business, managing small projects or parts thereof, providing support to subcontract management, participating in collective agreement negotiations

**Frequent travel to the St. Hubert Quebec and Houston Texas sites required to support in person meetings and development discussions onsite.**

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