Program Director

Job offer: Program Director

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

Benefits

• Sick leave days to support your well-being.
• Comprehensive group insurance program.
• Career evolution and professional growth opportunities.
• Stimulating work environment, with major projects in aeronautics.
• Health, wellness, and development program.
• Competitive salary.
• Employee assistance program.
• Free parking.

Main Responsibilities

• Lead and monitor the profitability of programs under their responsibility, implement a convergence plan to meet defined objectives.
• Define and update quality, cost, and deadline indicators.
• Anticipate and quantify potential risks and propose preventive actions.
• Lead and coordinate multi-disciplinary teams.
• Animate the modification process (technical scope deviation, claim, amendment request).
• Manage external client relationships.
• Close client issues.
• Propose arbitrations to the monthly Program Committees before the COMEX (Executive Committee).
• Implement program monitoring based on their importance and criticality.
• Address critical issues with client management.
• Ensure the achievement of quality, cost, and deadline objectives validated during offer reviews.
• Authority in budget allocations and decisions for achieving program profitability.
• Is the interface with the client during monthly reviews and in case of problems.
• Transverse management of multi-disciplinary teams.
• Is in charge of significant programs for the Group.
• Carry out tasks in compliance with the company's vision, doctrine, and code of ethics.
• 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.

Desired Profile

• Mastery of communication techniques.
• Expertise in the Group's activity sectors and the Group's normative requirements.
• Knowledge of commercialization stages.
• Expertise in program management and manufacturing processes.
• Facilitate a working group.
• Monitor a budget.
• Know how to manage client and supplier relationships.
• Master project management tools and methods.
• Anticipate deviations and slippages, resolve production dysfunctions.
• Negotiate contractual deviations with the client.
• Collaborate with different stakeholders to achieve an objective.
• Adapt to internal and external client requirements.
• Adapt oneself and one's team to evolutions (technological, organizational).
• Have a global vision of the project or activity.
• Demonstrate assertiveness internally and externally.
• Ability to analyze, synthesize, and step back.
• Proficiency in spoken and written French and English for communication with clients.

Want to contribute to the future of aeronautics?

At AAA Canada, we believe in human potential above all else. We look beyond CVs: what interests us is your journey, your expertise, and your vision.

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

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

ABOUT AAA CANADA

AAA Canada is an on-site and off-site manufacturing company that offers specialized subcontracting and technical assistance services related to industrial engineering, production, and maintenance processes in the Aeronautics, Land Transport, and Defense sectors.