Product Development Manager - Kanata, Canada - Curtiss-Wright

Curtiss-Wright

Verified Company

Kanata, Canada

1 week ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

The Opportunity | Product Development Manager - Electronics Computing

As the Product Development Manager, you will lead a dynamic group of Engineers responsible for the development of new products and the support of the existing product lines.

You plan and oversee the product development related activities, ensuring objectives are accomplished to meet the business and customer objectives.

You will also work closely with other cross-functional team members in Engineering, New Product Introduction (NPI), Customer Support, Sales and Marketing.

You coach, mentor, guide, and help nurture the development team to realize its full potential and adopt our culture of quality and customer satisfaction.

Location:
Ottawa, ON
Curtiss-Wright invests in the development, recruitment, and retention of critical skills as part of its model for business success. We offer a competitive wage, a comprehensive benefit package, RRSP, tuition reimbursement, and paid vacation/holidays.

Your Challenge:

Supervise the work assignments of a highly knowledgeable and motivated project teams.
Be a handson leader who achieves success through modelling best practices and a service attitude.
Responsible for the career development, training and performance evaluations of staff allocated to the Engineering Team.
Facilitate and ensure individual and team roles and responsibilities are understood.
Establish effective practices to attract, develop, motivate and retain high caliber staff.
Help lead crossfunctional problemsolving initiatives.
Review testing protocols for compliance with accepted standards and verifies testing results to ensure the desired functionality has been achieved.
Participate in bid/project activities such as defining architectures, developing technical proposals and providing detailed cost and schedule estimates.
Interact with customers regarding requirements and technical solutions.
Manage 3rd party relationships and coordination of work for cross site initiatives.
Pre

- and Post-Sales support when needed by Product Marketing or Customer Support

Skills Required:

Demonstrated drive and ability to achieve goals in an innovative and fast paced environment.
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and able to react to shifting priorities to meet business need.
Demonstrated creativity, foresight, and mature engineering judgment in anticipating and solving unprecedented engineering problems.
High attention to detail and solid engineering background
Outstanding interpersonal and presentation skills both written and verbal; to liaise with internal and external customers.
Selfconfident leader capable of motivating and mentoring their staff.
Ability to estimate/schedule development projects.
Detailed knowledge of embedded computing systems architecture, hardware, software and related support requirements in the military/aerospace industry
Team orientated and commitment to customer satisfaction.

Education/Experience:

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, Technologist Diploma or equivalent will be considered.
8 years industry experience relating to electronics computing.
Prior experience in a managerial or leadership role is preferred.

Design for manufacturing processes and techniques
Design for rugged environments
Open system standards such as VME, VPX, XMC and PMC
Leading-edge Intel and NXP/Qualcomm processors (x86, PA, ARM)
Leading-edge Broadcom Ethernet Switches
High-end FPGA design
Latest embedded industry technologies, such as Gen 3/4 PCI Express, 40GbE Ethernet, USB 3, DDR4 memory, etc.
Working knowledge of PCB technologies including stack up definition, material selection, IPC etc.
Experience with product configuration management
DO-254 Safety Certification

Flexible Language Requirement: