ATS Engineering Manager

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!  

This position is contingent on Contract Award. 
 
Summary 

This position will focus on the leadership and development of assigned TSSC engineers.  Responsible for development and deployment of modifications to training support devices.  Responsible for implementing, testing and documenting systems hardware and software changes to the baseline. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities 

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

• Designs, modifies, develops, writes and implements software programming applications. 

• Supports and/or installs software applications/operating systems. 

• Participates in the testing process through test review and analysis, test witnessing and certification of software.  

• Perform a variety of specific professional engineering tasks of an analysis, design or test nature in support of the customer in a specialized engineering field such as software, mechanical, electrical, aerodynamics or electronics. 

• Has knowledge of commonly used concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field.  Follows applicable C-17 ATS processes and procedures for configuration management and engineering effort to perform the functions of the job. 

• Support the TSSC Engineering group through all phases of software implementation and design on assigned projects with minimal supervision. 

• Work closely with CAE USA Modification Project Managers, C-17 ATS Instructors and Subject Matter Experts to evaluate and test software design implementation. 

• Attend and participate in weekly and monthly meetings providing project and work status to upper level management and customer audience. 

• Works under limited supervision. Must also be able to generate preliminary and detailed designs as required for enhancements or modifications to existing designs, requiring the application of current industry design concepts and utilization of basic technical writing skills.  

• May provide technical direction to junior team members. 

• Provide technical support for completion of technical studies and rough order of magnitude (ROM) efforts. 

• Installs and configures approved software changes to training equipment, including site preparation. 

• Prepare slide packages and chair the Design Change Working Group (DCWG) and Test Plan Working Group.  Provide necessary agenda, slides, and minutes and follow on action plans associated with these meetings. 

• Develops test strategies, devices, and systems.  

• Responsible for coordinating all test and evaluation activities associated with R&M baseline changes to the C-17 ATS devices. 

• Responsible for tracking all certification discrepancies (CDs) associated with SIMCERT activities. 

• Development and support of software technical specifications, vendor work scopes, technical manuals and drawings associat