Sr Manager Specialties Engineering

About This Role

Who We Are:

• CAE Vision: Our vision is to be the worldwide partner of choice in defense and security, and civil aviation by revolutionizing our customers’ training and critical operations with digitally immersive solutions to elevate safety, efficiency and readiness.
• CAE Defense & Security Mission: CAE’s Defense and Security business unit focuses on helping prepare military customers to develop and maintain the highest levels of mission readiness.
• CAE Values: Empowerment, Innovation, Excellence, Integrity and OneCAE make us who we are and we strive to make a difference in the world while helping each other succeed.

• Comprehensive and competitive benefits package and flexibility that promotes work-life balance.
• A work environment where all employees are valued, respected and safe.
• Freedom to succeed by enabling team members to deliver, take initiatives and make decisions.
• Recognition, professional development, advancement and having fun!

Responsible for the management of Specialties Engineering, including Reliability, Supportability, and Hardware Configuration Management, with overall technical, budget, and schedule responsibility for the department which includes the following functions: ILS, Design Drafting, Technical Writing, and Hardware Configuration Management.

Through carefully orchestrated planning, organizing, directing, and controlling, the person in this position assumes total accountability for the execution, quality and direction of the scope associated with functional departments. A high degree of system engineering knowledge, management acumen, organization ability, communication skills, delegation discernment and general business aptitude are essential.

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Responsible for improving upon existing or establishing new processes and systems using significant conceptualization, reasoning and interpretation. Solutions are innovative and unique and draw upon best practices based on expertise. Develops or champions new concepts or technologies. Opportunities for problem solving and innovation are often complex, requiring broad-based consideration of variables that impact multiple functions and/or businesses. Extensively analyzes problems to seek understanding of the root cause of the problem.

Recommends operational plans and tactics that will directly impact the achievement of overall functional results. Directs the execution of tactics established by functional leadership. Establish operational plans for the job area with short- to mid-term impact on results (e.g., 1‑2 years).

Work requires a high degree of responsibility for resources and occasionally influences business decisions made by functional leadership including:

• Budget or Profit & Loss (P&L) accountability for the department.
• Manage, plan, monitor and control all department activities and resources to ensure timely delivery of work products that meet technical requirements.
• Own the Engineering design process, metrics, and continuous improvement to ensure best practice and implement corrective action as necessary.
• Lead and coordinate activities between CAE entities, both within CAE USA and throughout CAE Inc., which impact the department’s work scope.
• Support projects as they progress from integration through final acceptance.
• Initiate design of modifications to product lines as necessary, fabrication of electrical / mechanical assemblies, kit deployment, documentation to support physical configuration audit and maintenance of equipment.
• Review and control of budgets and man hour estimates to complete tasks on programs. This includes reviewing detailed tasks and budgets on programs and estimating the hours remaining.
• Define resources and training needed by the department to execute design and tasks associated with programs.
• Provide accurate estimates of work content and architecting solutions in support of bidding activities. This includes completing Basis of Estimate (BOE) sheets for proposals.
• Draft Statements of Work and participate in proposal reviews.
• Regu…