Engineering Manager, Systems Engineering
About the role
Marshall Land Systems requires an Engineering Manager, Systems Engineering in Ottawa, ON to join our team. Reporting to the Head of Engineering, Projects, the Engineering Manager, Systems Engineering is responsible to support the business in implementing effective systems engineering practices, ensuring optimal performance, reliability, and scalability of our products and solutions.
Your responsibilities in this role:
- Champion Effective Systems Engineering Practices: Support efforts to establish and promote best in-class systems engineering practices throughout the organization. Advocate for the adoption of industry standards, methodologies, and tools to enhance efficiency and quality across all engineering projects.
- Team Leadership: Provide leadership to the Systems Engineering Team, fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment. Set clear objectives, mentor team members, and facilitate professional development opportunities.
- Technical Guidance: Offer technical guidance to resolve complex engineering challenges, emphasizing the importance of systems thinking in problem-solving. Collaborate with cross functional teams within a strong matrix organization to integrate systems engineering solutions seamlessly across various projects.
- Resource Management: Allocate resources effectively to best enable team productivity and project outcomes. Collaborate with HR for recruitment, onboarding, and performance management of engineering staff with a focus on nurturing systems engineering talent.
- Stakeholder Communication: Act as a liaison between the Systems Engineering Team and key stakeholders, articulating the value proposition of effective systems engineering practices.
- Quality Assurance: Establish Systems Engineering process and Key Performance Indicators (KPI) to ensure their effectiveness, suitability and value across the business.
- Budget Oversight: Manage departmental budgets and expenditures with a focus on advancing systems engineering capabilities. Identify cost-saving opportunities and optimize resource allocation to maximize Return On Investment (ROI), emphasizing the long-term value of investing in robust systems engineering practices.
- Risk Management: Enable people to identify potential risks and vulnerabilities in systems engineering projects and develop mitigation strategies to minimize impact. Proactively monitor emerging technologies and industry trends to anticipate future challenges and opportunities, underscoring the importance of adaptive systems engineering practices.
- Other duties as assigned.
Apply if you have most of the following:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum of 4 years of experience in systems engineering, with at least 1 years in a managerial or leadership role.
- Currently hold, or eligible to apply for, Professional Engineer (P.Eng) license.
- Proven track record of successfully leading teams, developing technical capability and driving effective systems engineering practices.
- In-depth knowledge of systems engineering principles, methodologies, and tools.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to advocate for systems engineering practices to technical and non-technical stakeholders alike.
- Experience in regulated industries such as aerospace, defense, or healthcare is desirable.
- Certification in project management (e.g., PMP) or systems engineering (e.g., INCOSE) is desirable.
- Flexible and Agile in Working remotely and in an office in different environments with the requirement to travel if necessary.
- Demonstrated ability to maintain confidentiality.
Must be eligible to meet the requirements of export control regulations, including the Canadian Controlled Goods Program and Canadian government security requirements.
About Marshall Land Systems: Marshall Land Systems is a Canadian-owned global company with an unrivalled pedigree of British engineering excellence. From its origins in Cambridge, UK, through more than a century of innovation, pioneering advances from the nose of Concorde to the early Hydrogen fuel cell technology that ultimately powered the moon landings, Marshall engineers now continue to innovate specialist vehicles and infrastructure for NATO forces across the world.
From bomb disposal vehicles to deployed shelters, from command and control to CT scanners on the battlefield, Marshall Land Systems protects people in critical situations with the very best in engineering. It employs 600 people with major facilities the UK, Canada, and the Netherlands.
Marshall Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer Marshall Group is an equal opportunity employer and values a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, colour, religion, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information about Equal Opportunity in the Workplace please click here.
About Marshall
Marshall has a diverse portfolio of businesses across a range of sectors including aerospace and defence, temperature-controlled distribution, and property.
Since 1909, our technology and engineering expertise has enabled us to provide mission-critical support for customers ranging from global armed forces and aircraft manufacturers to supermarket chains.
We made our name by predicting the rise of motorisation and aviation, and have kept the same forward-thinking spirit alive today through ambitious new ventures in next-generation flight and connected infrastructure.
Our operations across the UK, Europe, North America and the Middle East are all united behind a shared purpose of successfully solving problems that others walk away from, coupled with an inherent instinct to do the right thing.
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Engineering Manager, Systems Engineering
About the role
Marshall Land Systems requires an Engineering Manager, Systems Engineering in Ottawa, ON to join our team. Reporting to the Head of Engineering, Projects, the Engineering Manager, Systems Engineering is responsible to support the business in implementing effective systems engineering practices, ensuring optimal performance, reliability, and scalability of our products and solutions.
Your responsibilities in this role:
- Champion Effective Systems Engineering Practices: Support efforts to establish and promote best in-class systems engineering practices throughout the organization. Advocate for the adoption of industry standards, methodologies, and tools to enhance efficiency and quality across all engineering projects.
- Team Leadership: Provide leadership to the Systems Engineering Team, fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment. Set clear objectives, mentor team members, and facilitate professional development opportunities.
- Technical Guidance: Offer technical guidance to resolve complex engineering challenges, emphasizing the importance of systems thinking in problem-solving. Collaborate with cross functional teams within a strong matrix organization to integrate systems engineering solutions seamlessly across various projects.
- Resource Management: Allocate resources effectively to best enable team productivity and project outcomes. Collaborate with HR for recruitment, onboarding, and performance management of engineering staff with a focus on nurturing systems engineering talent.
- Stakeholder Communication: Act as a liaison between the Systems Engineering Team and key stakeholders, articulating the value proposition of effective systems engineering practices.
- Quality Assurance: Establish Systems Engineering process and Key Performance Indicators (KPI) to ensure their effectiveness, suitability and value across the business.
- Budget Oversight: Manage departmental budgets and expenditures with a focus on advancing systems engineering capabilities. Identify cost-saving opportunities and optimize resource allocation to maximize Return On Investment (ROI), emphasizing the long-term value of investing in robust systems engineering practices.
- Risk Management: Enable people to identify potential risks and vulnerabilities in systems engineering projects and develop mitigation strategies to minimize impact. Proactively monitor emerging technologies and industry trends to anticipate future challenges and opportunities, underscoring the importance of adaptive systems engineering practices.
- Other duties as assigned.
Apply if you have most of the following:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum of 4 years of experience in systems engineering, with at least 1 years in a managerial or leadership role.
- Currently hold, or eligible to apply for, Professional Engineer (P.Eng) license.
- Proven track record of successfully leading teams, developing technical capability and driving effective systems engineering practices.
- In-depth knowledge of systems engineering principles, methodologies, and tools.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to advocate for systems engineering practices to technical and non-technical stakeholders alike.
- Experience in regulated industries such as aerospace, defense, or healthcare is desirable.
- Certification in project management (e.g., PMP) or systems engineering (e.g., INCOSE) is desirable.
- Flexible and Agile in Working remotely and in an office in different environments with the requirement to travel if necessary.
- Demonstrated ability to maintain confidentiality.
Must be eligible to meet the requirements of export control regulations, including the Canadian Controlled Goods Program and Canadian government security requirements.
About Marshall Land Systems: Marshall Land Systems is a Canadian-owned global company with an unrivalled pedigree of British engineering excellence. From its origins in Cambridge, UK, through more than a century of innovation, pioneering advances from the nose of Concorde to the early Hydrogen fuel cell technology that ultimately powered the moon landings, Marshall engineers now continue to innovate specialist vehicles and infrastructure for NATO forces across the world.
From bomb disposal vehicles to deployed shelters, from command and control to CT scanners on the battlefield, Marshall Land Systems protects people in critical situations with the very best in engineering. It employs 600 people with major facilities the UK, Canada, and the Netherlands.
Marshall Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer Marshall Group is an equal opportunity employer and values a diverse and inclusive workplace. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, colour, religion, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information about Equal Opportunity in the Workplace please click here.
About Marshall
Marshall has a diverse portfolio of businesses across a range of sectors including aerospace and defence, temperature-controlled distribution, and property.
Since 1909, our technology and engineering expertise has enabled us to provide mission-critical support for customers ranging from global armed forces and aircraft manufacturers to supermarket chains.
We made our name by predicting the rise of motorisation and aviation, and have kept the same forward-thinking spirit alive today through ambitious new ventures in next-generation flight and connected infrastructure.
Our operations across the UK, Europe, North America and the Middle East are all united behind a shared purpose of successfully solving problems that others walk away from, coupled with an inherent instinct to do the right thing.