Program Director

Job Posting: Program Director

Location: Mirabel (QC)
Company: AAA Canada (mandate for a major aerospace player)
Expected start date: April 2026
Type: Full-time, indefinite duration

Benefits and Perks

• Sick leave days to support your well-being.
• Comprehensive collective insurance program.
• Opportunities for career evolution and professional growth.
• Stimulating work environment with major aerospace projects.
• Health, wellness, and development program.
• Competitive salary.
• Employee assistance program.
• Free parking.

Main Responsibilities

• Drive and monitor the profitability of programs under your responsibility, setting up a convergence plan to meet defined objectives
• Define and update quality, cost, and schedule indicators
• Anticipate and cost potential risks and propose preventive actions
• Direct and coordinate multi-trade teams
• Lead the change management process (deviation of technical scope, claims, amendment requests)
• Manage external relations with clients
• Close client issues
• Propose trade-offs at monthly Program Committees before the executive committee
• Implement program monitoring based on their importance and criticality
• Address critical issues with client management
• Ensure compliance with quality, cost, and schedule objectives validated during offer reviews
• Hold authority in budget allocations and decisions to achieve program profitability
• Act as the interface with the client during monthly reviews and in case of issues
• Transverse management of multi-trade teams
• In charge of dimensioning programs for the Group
• Conduct tasks in compliance with the vision, doctrine, and code of ethics of the company
• Apply and comply with safety rules at all times
• Apply and comply with the rules of our policy and quality system
• All other related tasks.

Profile Sought

• Mastery of communication techniques
• Expertise in the Group's business sectors as well as the Group's normative requirements
• Knowledge of commercialization steps
• Expertise in program management and manufacturing processes
• Lead a working group
• Monitor a budget
• Know how to manage client and supplier relations
• Master project management tools and methods
• Anticipate deviations and slippages, resolve production dysfunctions
• Negotiate contractual deviations with the client
• Collaborate with various stakeholders to achieve an objective
• Adapt to internal and external client requirements
• Adapt and adapt your team to evolutions (technological, organizational)
• Have a global vision of the project or activity
• Demonstrate assertiveness both internally and externally
• Capacity for analysis, synthesis, and stepping back
• Mastery of spoken and written French and English for communication with clients.

Want to contribute to the future of aerospace?

At AAA Canada, we believe in human potential above all. We look beyond CVs: what interests us is your background, your know-how, and your vision.

AAA subscribes to the principle of employment equity and encourages women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, and members of visible minorities to submit their applications.

To apply, send your application to Valerie.bujold@aaa-canada.ca