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Job Reference Number: 25-DD-2
Posting/Closing Date: August 25, 2025 to October 19, 2025
Workplace: Polytechnique Montréal
Department or Service: CEO Office

RESPONSABILITIES

The department director’s main responsibilities are:

REQUIREMENTS

• A PhD in engineering or in a related discipline relevant to the department’s research and teaching activities;
• Several years’ experience in university teaching and research as a professor and in developing programs of study and services in support of teaching and research;
• Licensed or in the process of becoming licensed to practise engineering in Canada by a Canadian engineering regulatory body (preferably the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec). Excellent knowledge of engineering programs would be an asset;
• Although not mandatory, other criteria such as experience in an industrial environment or experience in team management positions in various management-related functions may be taken into account when considering candidates’ applications.

COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS

This position requires the following competencies and skills:

• Strong interpersonal skills;
• Ability to communicate your vision dynamically, convince and rally stakeholders while remaining flexible and open-minded;
• Proven ability to work on a team to carry out important initiatives in collaboration with community members;
• Strategic resource management and effective delegation;
• Judgment and diplomacy in problem-solving and conflict management;
• Integrity and responsible conduct, agility and innovation, emotional intelligence, vision, strategic thinking, change management and talent development;
• Excellent spoken and written French (French is the primary language of communication).
• Fluent spoken and written English.

As part of Polytechnique Montréal’s vision, mission and objectives, and under the authority of the President, department directors help to administer the institution and are responsible for managing the department’s various strategic, scientific, budgetary and human resources dimensions, while adhering to the highest possible standards of excellence. Department directors model Polytechnique values by promoting collaboration, responsible leadership, self-improvement and integrity in their interactions and actions every day. The department director presides and is accountable to the departmental assembly of professors. The director is also accountable to Polytechnique’s management and Board of Directors.