Group Leader, Integration Specialist

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 within the Integration Specialist (IS) group in support of the IS Manager. This leader will be responsible for the leadership of a subset of the IS group for successful execution of all programs while coordinating across groups and departments within the company to achieve the highest customer satisfaction.  

Essential Duties and Responsibilities  

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

•  Direct responsibility for the work produced within the group of assigned Integration Specialists (Cost / Time / Quality). 

• Assigns job tasks to the assigned group utilizing SAFe based on priority and suitability, and monitors project cost, progress, and quality to completion.  Frequent review of project budgets with suggestions of updates as required. 

• Provides individual engineers with technical leadership, coordination and direction within the  area of responsibility. 

• Review work across all programs in the given area of responsibility, helps define project technical approach and process improvement needs. 

• Ensures convergence and re-use of previous designs is considered when applicable. 

• Provides technical writing and cost estimates for proposals and ECPs. 

• Supports the manager in interpreting and enforcing overall company policies and goals, and defining and enforcing standards within the group. 

• Review staffing of the group including review of work required on upcoming (forecast) programs.  Make recommendations regarding hiring of new employees to maintain program schedules. 

• Provides orientation for new employees and helps group members develop new skills. 

• Conducts goal setti