Safety and Mission Assurance Lead

**Company Overview**

For those who dream of advancing our space in the Universe and on Earth, we’ll take you there.

Serving the world from our Canadian home and our global offices, MDA is an international space mission partner and robotics & space operations, satellite systems and Geointelligence pioneer with a 50-year story of firsts on and above the Earth. Today, we're leading the charge towards viable Moon colonies, enhanced Earth observation, communication in a hyper-connected world, and more.

We’re fueled by a pioneering spirit that carries us beyond. And together we enable highly skilled people to continually push boundaries and tackle big challenges requiring solutions that endure and inspire.

Are you ready to launch the next stage of your career in the new space economy? We would love to hear from you

**The Position**

We’re on the hunt for a Safety and Mission Assurance (S&MA) Lead for the commercial robotics programs program 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.

**Responsibilities**:

- Lead the S&MA team on quality, safety and reliability tasks for one or more projects
- Supervise S&MA activities and resources to ensure completion of required activities within program budget, schedule and quality requirements.
- Early identification of quality requirements and implementation planning.
- Early identification of safety risks, mitigation planning and driving requirements to include safety controls.
- Early identification of technical risk and mitigation planning.
- Review design information such as drawings, specifications, test procedures etc.
- Continuous monitoring and support during manufacturing, assembly, integration, and test (MAI&T) to ensure MDA and Customer technical and quality requirements are met.
- Working collaboratively to identify and address issues.
- Support failure investigations related to hardware and software non-conformances.
- Serve as main customer point of contact for S&MA issues.
- Monitor S&MA team compliance to budget and schedule.
- Reporting to Program and Line.
- Find process improvements for increased quality, productivity, efficiency and cost savings.

S&MA is an independent engineering reporting organization within MDA. S&MA is involved in all aspects of the program, including support to proposals, customer and subcontractor contract negotiations, and through all phases of design, development, procurement, assembly, integration, test, qualification, delivery and operational support.

This job requires interaction with internal customers (including MDA program managers, engineering and manufacturing team), external customers (including their program and S&MA personnel) and various subcontractors and major suppliers.

**Job Requirements**:

- Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics etc.)
- Minimum of 4 years’ experience (for MTS level) or 10 years’ experience (for Senior level) in a technical or mission assurance role.
- Knowledge of safety/hazard analysis and reliability fundamentals.
- Proven capability to lead a team.
- Strong written/verbal communication skills.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
- Highly motivated and enthusiastic, with a positive attitude.
- Ability to work on multiple projects concurrently with effective time management.

We’re a dream team of purpose-driven, collaborative and passionate people, and we are constantly looking for others to join #TeamMDA to ignite new and innovative approaches to problem-solving that push us forward to improve life on and above Earth. If you’re excited to expand our place in space and driven to inspire the next generation, we’ll take you there.

We have entered a new era of exploration and development, and MDA welcomes all who yearn to suit up and be part of it. An equal opportunity employer prizing diversity, integrity and collaboration, we are committed to growing MDA’s and Canada’s leadership in this next golden age.

MDA provides competitive compensation and benefits packages for its employees at all locations. As a team member of MDA, you and your qualified dependents are eligible to participate in a benefit plan that ensures a comprehensive level of protection through competitive health care including; extended healthcare and flexible drug plans, dental and vision benefits, disability income protection, life insurance, group retirement savings plans; and an employee and family assistance program.

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