Manager, Test Director

About This Role

Who We Are: 

• CAE Vision: Our vision is to be the worldwide partner of choice in defense and security, civil aviation, and healthcare 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  

Provide leadership to the Test Directors team in support of the Systems Engineering as well as the Program and Project IPTs. This leader will be responsible for providing Operational Military experience in the design, development, production, test, and acceptance of simulation training devices.   

Essential Duties and Responsibilities  

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

• Responsible for supervising all Test Director Team activities 

• Direct responsibility for the work produced by group 

• Assigns tasks to group and monitors completion utilizing the design approach as applicable 

• Strong desire to improve the quality of work, processes and procedures 

• Cost Accounting Management for the group 

• Provide members of group with leadership, coordination and direction 

• Supports Manager in interpreting and enforcing overall company policies and goals, and defining and enforcing standards within the team 

• Maintain effective communications with other groups 

• Support to marketing for prospective projects 

• Operational input during the proposal stage for prospective projects 

• Assist in the development of Training Needs and Training Tasks Analyses for prospective and contracted projects 

• Establish and develop training for the team 

• Support of R&D activities  

• Ensure the team is appropriately staffed to support our current and future programs 

• Based on staffing levels, this group leader will fill in as the assigned Training Solutions Expert on some programs to cover staffing shortages.