Are you passionate about product development in the manufacturing sector?

Do you want to take on stimulating technical challenges and make an impact?

Bring your expertise, share your know-how and evolve innovation at Metaltech-Omega.

Join our winning team and apply our values such as Innovation, Quality, Listening to the customer, Communication, Respect, Thoroughness, Positive Attitude and Fun at work!

We offer:

• Stable full-time employment.
• A well-established company with an excellent reputation.
• Family culture: feel like a member of your family.
• A wide range of access solutions and fencing products, offering varied and stimulating challenges on a daily basis.
• Dynamic, collaborative and project-rich work environment.
• A growing company.
• A complete group insurance program including telemedicine.
• Corporate events.
• A pension program with employer contribution.
• A wellness program.
• And more.

JOB SUMMARY

Reporting to the Director of Product Engineering, as R&D Director you play a key role as a strategic technical advisor. You ensure that every product developed is functional, manufacturable, optimized and innovative. You supervise a team of engineers and technicians, guide decisions and validate the technical feasibility of projects. You seek to improve methods, products and processes to ensure the achievement of the company's engineering objectives for all of Metaltech-Omega's product lines.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Technical leadership and team management

• Supervise a multidisciplinary team (engineers and technicians) and foster their professional development.
• Prioritize development projects by ensuring their alignment with management’s expectations, while ensuring their success within deadlines, resources, budget and technical objectives.
• Guide technical orientations and design choices by making informed decisions.

Technical development, innovation and customized solutions

• Drive innovation: Propose innovative ideas and continuously improve products, processes and development tools, integrating feedback from the field and staying abreast of technological developments and market trends.
• Contribute actively to the design of new products, including 3D modeling (SolidWorks), choice of materials, technical validation and prototype supervision.
• Develop customized solutions adapted to customer needs, including the preparation of technical and economic quotes.
• Take charge of certain strategic or complex projects, from design to production.
• Maintain up-to-date technical documentation and ensure traceability of engineering decisions.

Communication and coordination

• Work closely with other departments and external partners to ensure technical, commercial and operational alignment of projects.
• Present project progress to the Director of Product Engineering and contribute to strategic planning.

REQUIREMENTS, QUALITIES AND SKILLS REQUIRED

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering;
• Member of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec (OIQ);
• Spoken and written languages (advanced level): French and English;

Experiment:

• Minimum 3 years of experience in engineering team management;
• Minimum 10 years in product development or technical project management;
• Significant product design experience in sheet metal, steel and aluminum.
• Knowledge of the retail industry is an asset.

Technical and strategic skills

• Analytical and business acumen with the ability to make sound technical decisions and optimize costs.
• Ability to provide technical guidance to an engineering team.
• Organizational skills, thoroughness and attention to detail.
• Ability to manage priorities, adapt to change, and deliver results on time.

Leadership and interpersonal skills

• Mobilizing leadership: ability to delegate, take charge and optimize resources to position the team for success.
• Autonomy, team spirit and sense of responsibility.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to build long-lasting relationships of trust.
• Curious, creative and innovative mind, with a strong ability to adapt and learn.

Computer knowledge

• Proficiency in SolidWorks or Catia computer-aided design software.
• Knowledge of the Office suite (Excel, Word, Outlook).

About Metaltech-Omega

METALTECH-OMEGA is a privately-owned Canadian company with two distinct brands, covering two different markets but united by the same components: steel products and the design of new models that elevate these markets to a higher level.

At METALTECH, we develop, manufacture, and sell a wide range of safe, reliable, and innovative products, such as scaffolding, construction site fencing and telescopic ladders. Our products can be found in hardware stores, industrial networks, and rental centers.

At OMEGA II, we manufacture fences with a unique product on the market, welded mesh panels. We are also the pioneer of welded-wire ornamental fencing systems and the pioneer of custom projects in North America.

The masculine gender is used without discrimination and only for the purpose of simplifying the text.

Only selected applicants will be contacted.

Please note that we do not wish to be contacted by recruitment agencies, headhunters or external recruitment partners. We do have firms we work with.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Company events
• Company pension
• Dental care
• Disability insurance
• Extended health care
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Paid time off
• Wellness program

Application question(s):

• Are you a member of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec (OIQ)?

Language:

• French (required)
• English (preferred)

Work Location: In person