Aerostructure Engineering Product Manager

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Plan and lead: Define realistic and ambitious execution plans, ensuring stakeholder alignment on deliverables, milestones, resources and budgets.
• Unite by influence: Bring together and actively mobilize designers and engineers to achieve objectives without direct hierarchical authority.
• Deploy governance: Monitor and drive projects according to program priorities.
• Support the team: Work closely with existing Program Domain Leads (PDLs) to facilitate operational trade-offs and service continuity.
• Collaborate cross-functionally: Build a strong partnership with engineering teams and the Chief Engineer's team.
• Manage risks and performance: Proactively identify execution risks, develop contingency plans and ensure rigorous tracking (schedule, cost, quality).
• Ensure visibility: Present progress and defend engineering trade-offs to internal stakeholders.

Requirements / Profile

• Education: Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related discipline.
• Large-scale project management: Proven successful experience leading major multidisciplinary projects across functions (leadership by influence).
• Industry experience: Strong professional engineering experience (experience in the aerospace industry or structure-related activities is a major asset).
• Business and performance focus: Strong budget-tracking rigor, keen sense of planning and management of execution risks.
• Interpersonal skills: Client-oriented mindset, strong communication skills and ease collaborating and integrating quickly into an existing team.
• Analytical skills: Excellent ability to simplify complex issues, prioritize and summarize key risks and actions.
• Language skills: Advanced/negotiation-level proficiency in English and French, both spoken and written.
• Digital proficiency: Proficiency with standard project management tools and the ability to navigate effectively in a modern information-driven environment.