TPD Project Manager I

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  

The R&D Project Managers is a key role of the Technology and Product Development (TPD) Team that delivers forward leaning technology, products, and solutions to CAE though research and development initiatives. The ideal R&D Project Manager possesses a strong working knowledge of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) as well as traditional project management skills. An R&D Project manager owns cost and schedule performance for a portfolio of projects and delivers monthly reports on each project to TPD leadership. This role works directly with project, technical and product leadership within the engineering team to achieve project outcomes on schedule, in scope and on budget. Additionally, this role is the primary interface to support groups outside of engineering like finance, procurement, and subcontracts for each project.  The TPD team is executing a complex R&D strategy to serve business needs of CAE and across the globe. R&D project managers ensure we meet that challenge on time and on budget. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities  

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

• Ability to manage multiple projects with complex funding profiles 

• Perform all budget and forecasting related activities for projects across the portfolio 

• Strategize with leaders to develop best practices for the project management process 

• Execute the project review cycle process 

• Align project resources to project budget and schedule 

• Ensure skills of engineering resources aligned to execution needs 

• Work with TPD Product Management team to ensure product need and roadmap are aligned to budget 

• Identify and mitigate risks to sche