About 49North

About 49North49North is a Canadian defence company delivering secure, multi-domain C4ISR capabilities that provide decision advantage in complex and contested environments. A wholly-owned subsidiary of MDA Space, building on more than five decades of trusted Canadian defence delivery, 49North operates as a sovereign Canadian provider of mission-critical C4ISR systems, bringing disciplined prime-contractor execution to defence and security programs.

49North is rooted in the execution of large, complex, and mission-critical programs developed within 49NORTH. This legacy reflects a record of delivery where engineering rigour, operational reliability, and national trust are non-negotiable. 49North Defence strengthens Canada’s sovereign defence capability by delivering integrated mission systems and multi-domain C4ISR integration, enabling trusted Canadian and coalition operations, assured interoperability, and sustained readiness.

Program/Project Description

The Aviation Program is comprised of two main projects Global Procedure Designed (GPD) and Automated Charting and Encoding (ACE).

GPD was originally developed in the early 2000s for the USAF. GPD is an easy-to-use Windows based decision support application that enables procedure design specialists to rapidly create an instrument procedure anywhere in the world. The application integrates a GIS module for procedure design visualization and drag-and-drop operations fine-tuning to avoid terrain and obstacles. GPD supports many standard input and output data formats (e.g., AIXM, ARINC, DAFIF and DVOF).

In 2022 GPD was enhanced for NAV CANADA with many features including TP308 criteria and support standard terminal arrival route and enroute procedures.



GPD is currently in use by more than 350 design specialists, building and evaluating procedures for locations all over the world.

ACE is a next generation aeronautical chart management solution that provides fully automated chart production directly from aeronautical data sources. Automatically transforming digital flight procedures into interactive, publication-quality aeronautical charts. Transforming operations through a dramatic reduction in the time and cost required to generate aeronautical charts and ARINC encodings.

The speed, simplicity and power of ACE were drivers in the National Geospatial Agency’s decision to implement ACE as the standard for automated aeronautical chart generation.

Strategic Impact

- Overall authority and responsibility for the Program
- Strategic alignment of projects to business objectives and customer contracts
- Stakeholder alignment & satisfaction across internal and external partners
- Delivery excellence: on-time, on-budget, in-scope
- Team performance & accountability: clear priorities, realistic plans, predictable outcomes, empowerment
- Risk & opportunity management: identify early, mitigate, and leverage

Responsibilities

- Execution: Accountable for integrated cross-functional project execution, remove barriers, enforce baselines, drive issue resolution
- Cross-functional orchestration with Planning,



Finance, Supply Chain/Subcontracts
- Establish a continuous improvement culture to improve tools, systems and business processes
- Schedule & cost: Own IMS, monitor and control, act early on variances, implement recovery actions with Finance alignment
- Own overall delivery within cost, schedule, scope envelope
- Maintain quality, on-time deliveries and within budget
- Stakeholders & communications: Own customer interface and internal stakeholders, provide transparent status, maintain shared situational awareness and support
- Customer/commercial interface, stakeholder alignment and communications
- Collaboration and communication with internal stakeholders; Engineering, Contracts, Quality and Finance departments, in support of portfolio execution
- Effective Team Leadership: Guides Project Leads or Team Leads within their scope, fostering accountability and efficient execution through effective leadership skills
- Manage Program-resourcing levels, in collaboration with Engineering and Talent Acquisition.
- Grow the technical team, onboard current hires, provide growth opportunities for the existing team, set clear goals

- Planning (baseline WBS & IMS): define milestones/critical path, integrate risks, resources, and assumptions validated with functions
- Forecasting: surface early indicators, address root causes, drive corrective actions and options
- Scope & requirements: Formal change control with Contracts/Engineering, ensure traceability and acceptance evidence, protect baselines and prevent scope creep
- Risk & opportunity management: escalate beyond authority with options & recommendations
- Support BD to gro

📌 Senior Program Manager (Richmond)
🏢 49North
📍 Richmond