Manager Hardware Engineering

Job Summary

Reporting to Director, Hardware Development, and working with peer Engineering Managers, Program Managers, and Product Managers, the primary function of the Hardware Engineering Manager is to lead the multidisciplinary team and develop a departmental roadmap, deploy and maintain it through an integrated strategy coupled with technical expertise enhancements.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of multi-discipline hardware staff including the Mechanical, ECAD and hardware development teams.
• Develop and maintain a rolling five years departmental roadmap along with an annual strategic plan.
• Prepare financial operational and capital acquisition budgets.
• Suggest, plan and lead continuous improvements projects.
• Provide timely technical and financial estimates to internal customers.
• Responsible to hire, develop and train the staff required to deliver the required support and development capability with innovative solutions.
• Produce employee’s performance reports and develop personnel career paths.
• Maintain employees’ skill set matrices.
• Review team’s projects technical progress and performance through program reviews, providing KPI metrics and follow-up on corrective actions.
• Support all direct reports in meeting their 98% on time delivery commitments while respecting scope, budgets, schedules and quality requirements.
• Enhance departmental procedures and interfaces with related departments to efficiently increase synergies.
• Provide oversight for the processes of Obsolescence management, Last Time Buy, warranty and other life cycle support requirements.
• Coordinate, review and approve design estimates for Test, Sustaining and development activities as required.
• Participate in product development activities using Design For Testability (DFT) concepts to develop test solutions with maximum test coverage.
• Manage the evolution of the new software test platform, its impact and benefits.
• Implement and support new sustaining structure with distinctive roles and skillset required: PPE, PE, Team lead, Sustaining engineer and Technical specialists.
• Effectively interface and support manufacturing as well as maintenance organizations to ensure continuous operations thus avoiding downtime.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership skills, team player, internal and external customer oriented, working in a multidisciplinary task environment.
• Possess basic financial knowledge to enable departmental operation’s management.
• Demonstrate an ability to interface effectively with coworkers and all management levels.
• Sound analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Highly self motivated, self aware and capable of addressing the group’s needs.
• Strong abilities to build and sustain a high performance team.
• Interface skills with Engineering, Manufacturing and Product Maintenance technical issues, testability, manufacturability and test strategy.
• Acquainted with continuous improvement techniques, Lean/Six Sigma. Green Belt or Black Belt certification would be an asset.
• Fluently bilingual, French and English, orally and written.

Education / Previous Experience Requirements

• Bachelor in engineering
• Minimum ten (10) years of experience in engineering, with a minimum of an additional ten years in a supervisory/managerial role

Work Hours

37.5 hours/week but may be extended to attend to address specific needs.

The pay range that the employer reasonably expects to pay for this position is between CA$130,000 and CA$155,000

Our voluntary benefits offering includes medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits.