Senior Project Engineer

Gastops; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Gastops, based in Ottawa, seeks a Senior Project Engineer to provide technical leadership across cross-functional engineering projects. You will coordinate activities from concept through in-service support, ensuring alignment with schedules, budgets, and client requirements.

The role emphasizes strong communication, risk management, and collaboration with Engineering, PM, Systems Engineering, Quality, and Manufacturing teams. Ontario licensure is preferred.

Qualifications

• Engineering or equivalent degree, with 10+ years in cross-disciplinary engineering environments.
• 7+ years in cross-functional engineering project coordination.
• Ontario Professional Engineering licence or eligible to obtain one.
• Experience in aerospace, marine, energy, or other mission-critical products.
• Design for manufacturability and full product lifecycle experience.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate cross-functional engineering projects through all lifecycle stages.
• Act as central technical interface among Engineering, PM, Systems Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, and Business Units.
• Define technical scope, assumptions, dependencies, risks, and inputs for schedules and estimates.
• Coordinate technical inputs for project reviews, status updates, and decision points.
• Identify and resolve technical risks, issues, and interdependencies across disciplines.
• Maintain alignment of technical documentation and decisions; ensure compliance with processes.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Technical coordination

Project management

Design for manufacturability

Reliability engineering

Effective communication

Education

Engineering degree

Professional Engineer licence (Ontario)

Job description

About Gastops: Moving You since 1979 Over the last 47 years, Gastops has built a robust business which is recognized worldwide for its innovative contributions to equipment health management in the aviation, energy, marine, industrial and transportation industries. Gastops’ products and services add value throughout the life cycle of complex critical equipment from the design stage through to in-service operations and support. We design, manufacture, and support advanced equipment sensing and analysis products, including on-line oil debris sensors, torque measurement sensors, turbine blade health sensors, and at-line oil analysis systems.

Position Type: Permanent Fulltime

Work Schedule: 4 days onsite

Work Location: Ottawa

Role status: Existing Role

About Gastops: Moving You since 1979 Over the last 47 years, Gastops has built a robust business which is recognized worldwide for its innovative contributions to equipment health management in the aviation, energy, marine, industrial and transportation industries. Gastops’ products and services add value throughout the life cycle of complex critical equipment from the design stage through to in-service operations and support. We design, manufacture, and support advanced equipment sensing and analysis products, including on-line oil debris sensors, torque measurement sensors, turbine blade health sensors, and at-line oil analysis systems.

Based in Ottawa, Ontario, the Senior Project Engineer will report to the Manager of Project Engineering and will focus on providing technical coordination and leadership across cross-functional engineering projects for external and internal customers at Gastops. This role acts as the technical “glue” within project teams, ensuring engineering activities, decisions, risks, and deliverables remain aligned across disciplines. While the Senior Project Engineer will work closely with dedicated Project Management and Systems Engineering functions, the role is not responsible for owning those functions.

What You’ll Do:

• Provide technical coordination and leadership across cross-functional engineering projects through all product life-cycle stages.
• Act as the central technical interface between Engineering, Project Management, Systems Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, and the Business Units
• Support project planning by defining technical scope, assumptions, dependencies, risks, and inputs for schedules and estimates.
• Coordinate technical inputs for project reviews, status updates, decision points, and performance discussions.
• Identify, communicate, and help resolve technical risks, issues, trade-offs, and interdependencies across disciplines.
• Partner with Systems Engineering and Project Management to ensure requirements, priorities, assumptions, and constraints are understood and reflected in execution.
• Maintain alignment of key technical documentation, design decisions, action items, and issue resolution activities.
• Facilitate clear communication across cross-functional teams so project goals, technical priorities, and customer needs are understood. Support compliance with project, product, Project Management, Systems Engineering, and Quality processes as they relate to technical execution.
• Support Project Engineering initiatives, department improvements, technical leadership activities, mentoring, and proposal technical content.

Please note that this job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive statement of every duty and responsibility that will ever be required of an employee in the job.

Who You Are:

• Technical leader who can align cross-functional engineering teams around project objectives, priorities, and technical decisions.
• Strong technical coordinator who can connect Engineering, Project Management, Systems Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, and other stakeholders without directly owning those functions.
• Knowledgeable in Project Management and Systems Engineering practices, including planning, risk discussions, requirements management, and system-level thinking.
• Savvy engineer able to support robust product designs for manufacturability, reliability, and mission-critical applications.
• Clear communicator, writer, and presenter who can translate technical details into concise recommendations, actions, risks, and decisions.
• Collaborative professional who builds alignment across diverse project teams and maintains effective communication with internal and external stakeholders.

What You Should Bring:

The ideal candidate will have an engineering or equivalent degree with at least 10+ years of demonstrated experience in cross-disciplined engineering environments, including strong technical coordination and leadership experience. Additionally, you should have:

• 7+ years of cross-functional engineering project or technical coordination experience.
• 7+ years of experience providing technical leadership across multi-functional engineering teams.
• 7+ years of design for manufacturability experience.
• 7+ years of full product life-cycle experience from concept through in-service support.
• 7+ years supporting or leading technical and/or cross-functional engineering teams.
• 7+ years of experience in designing high reliability aerospace, marine, energy, industrial, transportation, or other mission-critical products.
• Extensive experience designing to international product standards such as CE, RoHS, REACH, or equivalent standards.
• Experience supporting product certification activities such as CSA, UL, ATEX, IECEx, or equivalent certifications.
• Possess an Ontario Professional Engineering licence or be in the process/eligible to obtain one.

Complimentary Experience:

• Airborne HW/SW project execution in DO-160/178/254 or equivalent automotive/defence environments.
• Safety/mission critical and reliability driven product design.
• Marine platform control systems design, integration, or support experience.
• Familiarity with Canadian and/or NATO defence procurement projects, processes, or stakeholder environments.
• Designing and management of safety/mission critical products and/or projects.
• Laser-based spectroscopy or other opto-mechanical techniques and methods.
• Aerospace/marine sensors and systems.
• Particle and wear analysis applications.
• High reliability equipment.
• Condition assessment applications.
• Gas turbine engines.
• Rotating machinery.

What We Offer You:

• Salary range for this position: $100,000 - $120,000 (final compensation will be based on experience, skills, and fit).
• Bonus or profit sharing and share purchase programs.
• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits.
• Opportunities for growth and development.
• Social activities, company sponsored events and opportunities to give back to our local community.

We welcome applicants at all career stages - from emerging professionals to seasoned experts. Role level and scope may be adjusted to match your background.

Use of Artificial Intelligence in Recruitment: At Gastops, people are at the center of our recruitment process. We may use AI-enabled tools for limited administrative purposes such as creative outreach messages, transcribing interviews, or assisting with notetaking. These tools are not used to make hiring decisions. All applications are reviewed by our recruiters and hiring managers, and final decisions are made by people using their professional judgment and experience. Our commitment is to use technology responsibly, while ensuring fairness, transparency, and respect at every stage of the process.

Accessibility: Gastops is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to acquiring a skilled and diverse workforce. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, origins, ages, orientations, genders, creeds and religions. Gastops accommodates people with disabilities throughout the recruitment and selection process. Gastops is an excellent place to work, and we look forward to meeting with you! If contacted regarding this position, please advise the interview coordinator of any accommodation measures you may require.

We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.