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. 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.

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. 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.

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.





Management and sign-off of contractual, technical change control, customer acceptance, and staged invoicing of NRE deliverables. Oversee and approve the technical output of the department ensuring compliance with customer requirements and specifications. 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. Participation in the promotion of technical value proposition to prospects and customers. Management progression via a skilled engineering route.

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.

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.

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. Mid-Senior level Full-time Engineering, Manufacturing, and Production Motor Vehicle Manufacturing, Defense and Space Manufacturing, and Oil and Gas #

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🏢 Modern Technical Staffing
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