Supervisor Mechanical Design
Aversan Inc. (www.aversan.com) is a trusted multi-service engineering and electronics manufacturing company. Aversan delivers leading-edge and reliable safety-critical electronics and software systems to the aerospace, defence, and space industries.
We are currently seeking a qualified Supervisor Mechanical Design to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in mechanical design, solid leadership skills, and experience managing teams in a dynamic environment.
Location: Montreal, QC
Job Type: Full Time
Working Arrangement: Hybrid

Responsibilities

- Recruits’ employees, assigns, direct 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 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.
- Ensuring group competency remains abreast of state-of-the-art techniques in the respective engineering/manufacturing / support service disciplines.
- Oversee 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.
- Ensures the proper application of the company’s collective agreements.
- Participate in or lead Technical Overview Board (TOB) meetings.
- Coordinates and ensures distribution of lessons learned.
- Supports internal and external audits and ensure corrective actions are implemented as required.
- Promotes a Design for Manufacturing (DFM) culture.
- Participates in or leads technical troubleshooting and problem solving.
- Provides expert support to MRBs and customer enquiries where needed.
- Ensures proper application and adherence to overall company policies and processes by staff in the department.
- 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.
- 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.
- Supports and coordinates patent applications in conjunction with the product development organization. Ensures that the company’s trade secrets and proprietary information is protected and handled securely.
- 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.

Basic Qualifications

- Minimum 5 years’ experience in the field of engineering / manufacturing
- Demonstrated superior ability for people skills, conflict resolution and leadership skills.
- Career aspirations to managing teams of people in a dynamic environment.
- Experience or interest in developing skills in resource management, negotiations, risk management techniques and financial reporting.
- Bilingual – more French than English
- Soft skills – people-oriented personality – KPI management / experience with 1:1 | performance reviews | pays | timesheets | motivation – growth conversations
- Mechanical engineers
- Knowledge of the tools will be an asset
- Strategic mindset
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in the field of engineering / manufacturing preferably in the space industry or related area.

Compensation: $90,000 – $120,000 CAD (annual salary)

Vacancy Status: This posting is for an existing vacancy.

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📌 Supervisor Mechanical Design (Montreal)
🏢 Aversan
📍 Montreal