Lead Flight Simulation Programs Architect

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.

What We Have to

Offer:

• 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!

Summary

Provides technical leadership for the design, development, production, test and sell off of simulation training devices. Applies mature engineering knowledge and planning. Fosters the development of a common vision, provides technical direction and priorities; clarifies roles and responsibilities within the team. Acts as technical link between CAE and customer.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

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

• Responsible for arranging and directing technical activities of large scale programs, coordinates engineering activities across many disciplines.

• Ensures that company’s flight simulation product matches the aircraft, meets contractual requirements and all functional areas within engineering are compliant to the technical requirements for each assigned project

• Schedules and coordinates hardware and software integration phase

• Commands a clear understanding of Hardware and Software Integration (HSI) issues

• Implements corrective measures for all HSI issues that are not compliant to requirements

• Provides technical expertise during subjective and objective evaluations of training devices Manages the resolution of all acceptance faults. Participate in installations and final sell off of training devices. Coordinate and review technical/operational deliverables prior to submission to customer. Responsible for training device from requirements to final acceptance

• Authors, coordinates and leads presentations of formal reviews with customers as required by assigned project

• Provides support for Program Managers on all technical matters. Act as the focal point for all customer technical matters with hands on solutions to hardware and software problems.

• Resolves technical problems and provides technical support on sub-system designs

• Assign project team to specific tasks based on project requirement Develops overall system architecture for a project and technical directives and standards to transfer technical knowledge of product capabilities to customer

• Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) cost estimate reviews - Firm Fixed Price cost estimate reviews - Technical Specification generation and reviews - Responses to Request for Proposal (RFP) - Technical supervision and assessment of sub-contracted efforts

• Undertakes independent studies, analysis, interpretations and conclusions

• Provides guidance to junior team members.

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• BS or MS Degree in engineering

• Minimum of 10 years work experience with 7 years in flight simulation Flight simulation experience with detailed knowledge of flight simulator hardware and software technology

• Must demonstrate the ability to create and understand technical documents related to aircraft, computers, electronics and flight simulation technology

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills

Security Responsibilities

Must comply with all company security and data protection / usage policies and procedures. Personally responsible for proper marking and handling of all information and materials, in any form. Shall not divulge any information, or afford access, to other employees not having a need-to-know.…