Director of Hardware Engineering, Manufacturing and Deployment

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. 

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  

Responsible for the management of the Hardware Engineering, Manufacturing and Deployment organization with overall technical design, budget, and schedule responsibility for the Hardware Engineering department activities which include the following groups: Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Visual Display Systems, Product Design Engineering, Test Engineering. 

Through carefully orchestrated planning, organizing, directing and controlling, the incumbent in this position assumes total accountability for the execution, quality and direction of the engineering scope associated with hardware engineering design, assembly, fabrication effort, initial equipment test, installation progress and results associated with any program. A high degree of hardware engineering knowledge, management acumen, organization ability, communication skills, delegation discernment and general business aptitude are essential. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities  

Reasonable accommodations 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. May recommend and implement new products, process