System & IVV Avionics Engineering Manager

Montreal, QC (Hybrid) Full time

Job Summary

The System & IVV Engineering Manager ensures the leadership of a group of specialists composed of 30 to 40 collaborators, including system specialists, integration, verification and validation (IVV) specialists, IVV package managers (IVV Managers), safety specialists and aeronautical cybersecurity specialists. This team plans, organizes, and manages the definition, integration, and validation of critical embedded systems (flight control, integrated modular avionics).

The Manager ensures the professional development of the various collaborators. They validate the development plan put in place by the collaborator and evaluate their progress by offering advice and solutions.

The team is also responsible for the implementation of model-based systems engineering methodologies (MBSE, MBD), safety modeling, and cyber risk analysis, allowing for automation and increased process robustness.

In collaboration with other Engineering managers (notably Software and Hardware), the Quality department, and program management, the Manager plays both a strategic and tactical role for the development and securing of embedded systems in the markets served by Thales.

As developments are carried out in a collaborative and international mode between Canada and France, the Manager will ensure the smooth operation of these activities in close collaboration with their French counterparts.

Essential Functions

As System, IVV, Safety & Cyber Avionics Engineering Manager:

• Planning and monitoring: Plan and monitor activities related to compliance with system engineering and IVV standards to ensure the smooth running of projects while respecting functional scope, performance, internal/client milestones, and realization costs.
• Resource management: Manage team resources (budget, HR); ensure the adequacy of loads, resources, and skills necessary for the various projects (system specialists, IVV package managers, IVV specialists, Safety and Cyber specialists).
• Professional development: Ensure the professional development of the team, identify and evaluate critical knowledge, and then organize this knowledge to ensure continuity.
• Reporting: Provide progress reports, system maturity indicators, and compliance matrices necessary for project managers and management.
• Innovation and R&T: Plan and monitor upstream Research & Technologies activities for future system architectures, predictive safety, and resilient cybersecurity of embedded systems.
• Offers and competitiveness: Prepare and coordinate system engineering, IVV, safety, and cybersecurity quotes to build winning offers.
• Continuous improvement: Improve the team's competitiveness over the entire product lifecycle (system specifications, technical proposals, automated IVV methodologies).
• Monitoring and tooling: Provide active technological monitoring on system engineering methodologies (MBSE, MBD) and tools likely to increase efficiency:
  • By ensuring the deployment and maintenance of "Thales Engineering Environment" engineering tools (e.g., modeling tools, requirements management tools).
  • By automating integration and validation test chains (IVV).
• Certification and homologation: Relying on specialists in their team, may be required to present and defend system architecture, safety case, and cybersecurity files before various certification authorities and clients.
• Regulatory compliance: Ensure that teams comply with certification bases and aeronautical industry standards, including:
  • System Engineering & IVV: DO178C, ARP4754A / ED-79A, DO-297.
  • Safety: ARP4761 (FHA, PSSA, SSA).
  • Cybersecurity: DO-326A / ED-202 (aeronautical security process).
  • Interfacing with related hardware milestones (DO-254).
• Product policy: Apply and enforce company product policy and guidelines.

Minimum Requirements

• University degree in electrical engineering or software engineering;
• 10 years of experience in the development of critical embedded systems in aeronautics or equivalent;
• Knowledge and application of DO-178 and ARP4754A;
• Experience in planning and monitoring engineering work;
• Experience in human resources management;
• Good verbal and written communication skills in French and English;
• Ability to analyze an organization in terms of competence, structure, and process.
• Ability to improve overall efficiency by proposing areas for continuous improvement (Plans, Processes, etc.).
• Proactive with a sense of technical and human leadership, you listen to your teams to guide them, support them, and ensure their development.
• A good understanding of the aerospace industry is an asset;
• Good team spirit.

This position requires a good knowledge of English for writing technical documents, to interact, support, and/or provide services to international clients, employees, and/or partners as well as to foreign government authorities who do not speak French.

Desirable Qualification

Education level:

• Bachelor's/Master's degree