Director of Systems Engineering — Clean Energy Platforms

ArcTern Ventures; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 150,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Hydrostor, a leading energy storage company in Toronto, is seeking a Director, Systems Engineering to establish and lead our Systems Engineering function. You will bring structure, technical rigor, and scalability to the development and delivery of our projects and technology platform.

Reporting to the CTO, you will define requirements, interfaces, verification, and risk management across the organization while partnering with Engineering, Project Delivery, Operations, and Supply Chain to ensure

Qualifications

• 12+ years of engineering experience including systems engineering and complex project delivery.
• Proven leadership of systems engineering activities for complex engineered systems.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Systems Engineering, Applied Science, or related field.
• Strong knowledge of requirements management, interface management, verification & validation, configuration management, and risk management.
• Experience building or scaling systems engineering processes and governance.
• Ability to translate objectives into engineering requirements and execution plans.
• Experience with interfaces across multidisciplinary teams and external partners.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve Hydrostor's Systems Engineering function with scalable processes.
• Develop frameworks for requirements management, interface management, and verification.
• Partner with Engineering, Project Delivery, Operations, and Supply Chain to embed SE principles.
• Provide technical leadership across multidisciplinary projects.
• Lead interface management with internal teams, partners, EPC/EPCM contractors, OEMs, and suppliers.
• Lead technical reviews and governance activities.
• Drive verification and validation strategies.
• Promote reuse of knowledge and standards to standardize products.
• Champion configuration and change management.
• Mentor and develop a high-performing SE team.
• Advise CTO and senior leadership on strategy and risk.
• Balance rigor with agility to deliver Hydrostor's energy storage projects.

Skills

Systems Engineering

Technical leadership

Stakeholder management

Mentoring engineers

Communication

Project delivery

Cost awareness

Education

Bachelor's in Engineering

Tools

MBSE

PLM

Configuration management

Job description

Hydrostor, a leading energy storage company in Toronto, is seeking a Director, Systems Engineering to establish and lead our Systems Engineering function. You will bring structure, technical rigor, and scalability to the development and delivery of our projects and technology platform.

Reporting to the CTO, you will define requirements, interfaces, verification, and risk management across the organization while partnering with Engineering, Project Delivery, Operations, and Supply Chain to ensure