SKILLS REQUIRED

• Extensive knowledge of new product development processes
• Strong leadership, planning, organizational, analytical, and decision making skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills with an ability to handle multiple tasks and effectively balance priorities
• Ability to communicate project related and technical details clearly and concisely, both orally and in written form
• Ability to deal directly with internal and external customers
• Able to generate and update product development schedules using Microsoft Project
• Able to generate and present technical project reviews using Microsoft PowerPoint
• Able to generate project reports and analysis using Microsoft Word and Excel
• Knowledge of Risk Management techniques
• Familiarity with AS9100, Lean principles, Six Sigma
• Basic knowledge of the following:
• Design of products to be used on aircraft, maritime or ground vehicles
• Verification testing to military and aerospace standards
• IR and EO sensor technology and optical design principles
• Laser illuminators, rangefinders, and designators
• Digital and analog video standards
• Control system design
• Mechanical design including packaging, vibration isolation and thermal management
• Shielding, bonding, grounding and impedance matching principles
• Servos, gyros, microprocessors, FPGAs, DC power distribution
• Opto-mechanical design, electronic circuit card design, VHDL design, embedded software development

EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor Degree & minimum 6 years’ project management/engineering experience in a manufacturing environment, or
• Graduate degree and minimum 4 years’ experience, or
• In lieu of a degree, 10 years’ related experience
• Engineering degree & experience in aerospace industry preferred
• PMP certification is an asset
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary product development project teams

• Lead a cross functional team consisting of functional leads from Design Engineering, Operations, Manufacturing Engineering, Procurement, Customer Service, ILS, Tech Pubs, PMO and Sales & Marketing through all phases of new product introduction
• Ensure compliance to New Product Introduction (NPI) Phase Review Guideline
• Coordinate all project activities amongst cross- functional team members to ensure schedule, budget, and quality adherence to agreed upon NPI project milestones per the NPI SOW
• Generate NRE estimates for new product developments
• Generate and maintain a fully integrated NPI project schedule
• Maintain labour and non-labour forecasts for the NPI project
• Work with managers to secure and maintain resources for execution of project tasks
• Manage external contractors working on the project
• Manage project risks to minimize adverse impacts
• Oversee design compliance and verification to product requirements
• Coordinate the resolution of all non-conformances
• Coordinate the generation of and review all project/product documentation such as specifications, work statements, presentation & review material, reliability & quality reports design documentation, technical publications and verification plans/reports
• Organize and chair design reviews, project stage gate reviews and weekly project team meetings.
• Present project status to Senior Management at the monthly meetings
• Coordinate the build and troubleshooting of early production builds (alpha & beta units)
• Support daily Operation meetings
• Work with demand manager to ensure initial customer delivery dates can be achieved
• Provide support to Program Management for initial low rate customer production
• Coordinate engineering change requests and orders through the NPI stage
• Manage the transition of the new product into full production
• Support Sales & Marketing, Bids & Proposals, ILS and Tech Pubs by providing technical and cost information on new products
• Be accountable to the Engineering Product Manager