About This Role

Who We Are:

• CAE Vision: Our vision is to be the worldwide partner of choice in defense and security, civil aviation, and healthcare by revolutionizing our customers’ training and critical operations with digitally immersive solutions to elevate safety, efficiency and readiness.

• CAE Defense & Security Mission: CAE's Defense and Security business unit focuses on helping prepare military customers to develop and maintain the highest levels of mission readiness.

• CAE Values: Empowerment, Innovation, Excellence, Integrity and OneCAE make us who we are and we strive to make a difference in the world while helping each other succeed.

  What We Have to Offer:

• Comprehensive and competitive benefits package and flexibility that promotes work-life balance

• A work environment where all employees are valued, respected and safe

• Freedom to succeed by enabling team members to deliver, take initiatives and make decisions

• Recognition, professional development, advancement and having fun!

  Summary

The D&S US Sector Chief Engineer is a senior leadership role accountable, empowered, and responsible for driving program engineering cost, schedule, staffing, technical compliance, and R&O management performance across the US business. This role will work closely with the D&S US business VP / GM and engineering functional matrix leaders, be a direct report to the D&S VP of Engineering and Technology, and will have direct report Chief Engineers that oversee the day-to-day operations of the D&S US Centers of Excellence (CoE).

*Role can be out of Tampa, FL or Arlington, TX.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Supports the D&S US Program VP / GM in the execution of programs across the D&S US Rotary Wing, Strike/C2, Airlift, Rapid Development, and Training Center CoEs

• Accountable, empowered, and responsible for driving program engineering cost, schedule, technical compliance, and R&O management performance across the US business in alignment with the overarching financial plan and customer milestones

• Accountable for D&S US engineering ROM, bid, proposal, baseline, and estimate at completion (EAC) accuracy, fidelity and viability

• Accountable for ensuring team establishes staffing demand needs and priorities, and coordinates with the functional matrix leaders to ensure staffing supply and overarching workforce skills management plan aligns with the business needs

• Identifies, reviews, and tracks D&S US–elevated critical paths across the CoEs, and aggressively coordinates support across all business disciplines to mitigate identified risks and capture opportunities

• Content generation, presentations, and delivery of recurring engineering, D&S US, D&S, and corporate status, strategy, and management reviews regarding D&S US content

• Drives teams to be a metrics-based organization, relying on both past and forward-looking information to drive execution, planning, EACs, and risk/opportunity assessments

• Direct-line supervisor of D&S US CoE Chief Engineering (CE) staff, responsible for CE workforce management and development, succession planning, performance-related functions, and overhead budget planning and performance

• Accountable for documenting the D&S US-level strategic product-facing technology needs in collaboration with the CoE and business development leads and the D&S Technology and Product Team, and ensures the D&S US product roadmap aligns, where applicable, with CAEs overall technology roadmap

• Accountable for driving process and product convergence across the CoEs and with D&S International, plus reinforcing product reuse, where applicable, in coordination with the CAE Global Products and Technologies (GTP) team

• Supports the engineering enterprise with a continuous improvement mindset while enforcing standards, policies, and procedures

• Team accountability, responsibility, and authority for executing the engineering elements of ROM, bid, and proposals through collaboration with the functional matrix organizations, CoE leads, business development, and capture leads

• Strong leadership skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate technical teams

  Qualifications and Education Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, math, or a science-related discipline

• Minimum 15 years work experience in DoD with demonstrated success leading large, multi-discipline technical teams

• Experience with proposals, program baselining, EACs, and risk & opportunity management

• Detailed, hands-on experience across the full product lifecycle spectrum from basic R&D through production

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Must be a focused, driven, milestone-oriented leader with the demonstrated ability to direct teams, anticipate outcomes, make sound techno-business decisions based on limited information, and lead through influence across organizational and geographical boundaries

  Preferred Skills

• Master’s degree in finance, business, engineering, computer science, math, or science-related discipline

• Prior experience in flight simulation, training, or other related industry

• Prior functional leadership experience

  Security Responsibilities

Must comply with all company security and data protection / usage policies and procedures.  Personally responsible for proper marking and handling of all information and materials, in any form. Shall not divulge any information, or afford access, to other employees not having a need-to-know. Shall not divulge information outside company without management approval.  All government and proprietary information will be accessed and stored electronically on company provided resources.

• Candidate must be eligible for DoD Personal Security Clearance.

  Due to U.S. Government contract requirements, only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role.

  Work Environment

This job operates in a dynamic, fast-paced professional office environment with occasional work in lab and high-bay environments near and in full-motion simulation devices. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Must be able to sit down for long lengths of time, climb stairs, and occasionally carry common workplace items

• Must be able and willing to travel to both US Domestic and International locations

• Must be willing to work on-site, oftentimes with flexible, extended work hours

• Temporary levels of moderate stress may be experienced due to time-critical technical, schedule, and customer issues

  Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for their job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

CAE USA Inc. is an EOE/AA employer and gives consideration for employment to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. If you’d like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please click here Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal (https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2022-10/EEOC_KnowYourRights_screen_reader_10_20.pdf) .

PAY TRANSPARENCY NONDISCRIMINATION PROVISION The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.

Position Type

Regular

CAE thanks all applicants for their interest. However, only those whose background and experience match the requirements of the role will be contacted.

Equal Opportunity Employer

CAE is an equal-opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. As "One CAE," we take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants regardless of race, nationality, colour, religion, sex, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, neurodiversity, Veteran status, age, or other legally protected characteristics.

If you don't see yourself fully reflected in every job requirement listed in the job posting, we still encourage you to reach out and apply. At CAE, everyone is welcome to contribute to our success. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please get in touch with us at rh-hr@cae.com .

At CAE, we equip people in critical roles with the expertise and solutions to create a safer world. As a technology company, we digitalize the physical world, deploying simulation training and critical operations support solutions. Above all else, we empower pilots, airlines, defence and security forces, and healthcare practitioners to perform at their best every day and when the stakes are the highest. Around the globe, we’re everywhere customers need us to be with more than 13,000 employees in more than 200 sites and training locations in over 40 countries. CAE represents 75 years of industry firsts—the highest-fidelity flight and mission simulators, surgical manikins, and personalized training programs powered by artificial intelligence. We’re investing our time and resources into building the next generation of cutting-edge, digitally immersive training and critical operations solutions while keeping positive environmental, social and governance (ESG) impact at the core of our mission. Today and tomorrow, we’ll make sure our customers are ready for the moments that matter.