Sub Discipline Manager - IVVQ

Thales; Ottawa; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Extended Health and Dental

Retirement Savings Plan

Life Insurance

Paid Holidays

Well-Being program

Employee Discounts

Job summary

Thales in Ottawa, Canada seeks an IVVQ Sub-Discipline Manager to lead the IVVQ engineering team and drive best practices across bids and projects. You will manage resources, mentor engineers, and ensure milestones are met within a multidisciplinary environment.

Responsibilities include shaping processes, supporting recruitment, and delivering IVVQ work while promoting collaboration and technical excellence. Travel may be occasional in a dynamic defence and aerospace context.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree or equivalent technical diploma with IVVQ exposure.
• At least 6 years of IVVQ experience in the last 10 years.
• At least 2 years leading an IVVQ team, project, or product.
• Experience with at least one IVVQ tool and one IVVQ standard.
• Strong English written and verbal communication; collaborative mindset.

Responsibilities

• Provide resources to deliver bids, projects, and products.
• Plan team workload over short, medium and long term.
• Develop team skills; support recruitment, onboarding and performance management.
• Coach, mentor and develop the team to meet productivity and quality targets.
• Standardize processes, procedures and tooling; drive continuous improvement.
• Support bid, project and product estimates for the discipline and sub-disciplines.
• Perform IVVQ work across bids, projects and products; analyze systems holistically.

Skills

English communication

Team player

Resource planning

Strong problem solving

Leadership

Education

Engineering degree or technical diploma

Tools

IVVQ tool

IVVQ standard

Requirements management

Job description

Location: Ottawa, Canada

In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.

Verification, Validation, and Qualification (IVVQ) Sub-Discipline Manager

Ottawa, ON- Hybrid

Regulatory Compliance Requirements

Ability to acquire and maintain Canadian Secret, Controlled Goods, ITAR, NATO Secret and COMSEC security clearances.

Position Summary

We have a current vacancy for an Integration, Verification, and Qualification (IVVQ) Sub-Discipline Manager who provides IVVQ support throughout the project life cycle from requirements analysis, through development, integration, test and acceptance to integrate, verify, and validate commercial and/or military systems and products. The IVVQ Sub-Discipline Manager supports the Manager/HOD of IVVQ both in terms of team management, and discipline management. They act as the resource manager for a subset of the IVVQ discipline resources, taking care to ensure that each resource under their mentorship is given the support they need to excel in their respective roles. They inspire and catalyse the improvement of best practices, processes, tools and governance within the IVVQ discipline, ensuring that the discipline is mastered effectively. They act as a primary point of contact on complex subjects and take on an educational role so that their team members can reach discipline excellence and deliver competitive solutions within a multidisciplinary environment. They are a mentor and coach - serving the discipline’s engineers and offering a diverse and inclusive environment. They are the guardians of an engineering discipline excellence in a learning environment which contribute to our highly competitive advantage.

The IVVQ Sub-Discipline Manager reports to the Manager/HOD of IVVQ.

Key Areas of Responsibility

As a Resource Manager

• Provides appropriate resources to deliver bids, projects and products.
• Plans the team’s workload over the short, medium and long term.
• Develops team skills to support bids, projects and products.
• Supports recruitment, onboarding, performance management, career management, and succession planning for the team.
• Coaches, mentors and develops the team.
• Leads the team to meet company expectations for productivity, chargeability, quality, continuous improvement and accomplishment of objectives.
• Ensures that company policies and procedures are followed, including timesheets, time off, and travel.
• Be accountable to both the IVVQ Manager/HOD and the company for their team.

As an Engineering Manager, supports the Manager/HOD of IVVQ

• In the establishment, standardization and evolution of processes, procedures and tooling for the discipline.
• In ensuring that the discipline processes, procedures and tooling meet the current and future needs of the bids, projects and products.
• In the development of lessons learned and the sharing of knowledge and experience across the discipline.
• Foster continuous improvement based on root cause analysis, problem solving and new practice deployment.
• Support bid, project and product estimates for the discipline and sub-disciplines.

As a member of the IVVQ Engineering team

• Responsible for performing IVVQ work on bids, projects and products.
• Be able to adopt a holistic approach to analyse a system, focusing on the way that a system’s constituent parts interrelate and verify that the systems work over time and within the context of larger systems.
• Be able to understand the system capabilities through functional, logical and value analytic testing.
• Understand the importance of requirements definition and tracking.
• Have notions of Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, R-A-M-T (Reliability/Maintainability/Availability/Testability), and associated norms and standards.

Minimum Qualifications

• An engineering degree, 3-year technical program diploma in a technical field from a recognized university or college program or certified as a technologist by a recognized provincial, state, or federal (national) licensing body in a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• A minimum of 6 years of experience in the last 10 years of IVVQ experience.
• A minimum of 2 years of experience in the last 10 years managing an IVVQ team, project, or product.
• Expertise in at least one IVVQ tool.
• Expertise in at least one IVVQ standard.
• Expertise in Requirements Management or sell-off.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English
• You are a team player, have good interpersonal skills and foster collaborative work both within and outside your team.
• You have a strong understanding of IVVQ processes and how they interact with other engineering disciplines.
• You are willing to engage and develop your team.
• You are able to clearly determine and communicate status.
• You are able to prioritize the use of resources.

Preferred Qualifications

• A University degree in Engineering, Science, or a related field
• Management of budget worth at least 200k CAD
• Experience in the Defence industry
• Fluency in French

Special Position Requirements

Travel: Occasional national and international travel. About 4 times per year.

The reference Total Target Compensation (TTC) market range for this position, inclusive of annual base salary and the variable compensation target, is between Total Target Cash (TTC) $120,000 - $150,000 CAD Annual.

This reflects how companies in a similar industry and geographic region generally pay for similar jobs. This range helps the Company make pay decisions as one data point among many. Where a position falls within this range is also dependent on other factors including - but not limited to - the employee's career path history, competencies, skills and performance, as well as the company's annual salary budget, the customer’s program requirements, and the company’s internal equity. Thales may offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant's status protected by local, state, or federal law.

We use artificial intelligence-enabled tools as part of our recruitment process to support activities such as candidate discovery, résumé matching, and interview scheduling. These tools may help screen and assess applications and recommend potential matches based on the requirements within the job description. All hiring decisions, including candidate evaluation, selection, and disposition, are made by human recruiters. Artificial intelligence does not make hiring decisions on our behalf.

Why Join Us?

Hybrid Thales provides an extensive benefits program for all full-time employees working 24 or more hours per week and their eligible dependents, including the following:

• Company paid Extended Health, Dental, HSA, Life, AD&D, Short-term Disability, Cancer Care Program, travel insurance, Employee Assistance Plan and Well-Being program.
• Retirement Savings Plans (RRSP, DCPP, TFSA) with a company contribution and a match to a DCPP, with no vesting period.
• Company paid holidays, vacation days, and paid sick leave.
• Voluntary Life, AD&D, Critical Illness, Long-Term Disability.
• Employee Discounts on home, auto, and gym membership.

Thales is an equal opportunity employer which values diversity and inclusivity in the workplace. Thales is committed to providing accommodations in all parts of the interview process. Applicants selected for an interview who require accommodation are asked to advise accordingly upon the invitation for an interview. We will work with you to meet your needs. All accommodation information provided will be treated as confidential and used only for the purpose of providing an accessible candidate experience.

This position requires direct or indirect access to hardware, software or technical information controlled under the Canadian Export Control List, the Canadian Controlled Goods Program, the Canadian Industrial Security Program, the US International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and/or the US Export Administration Regulations (EAR). All applicants must be eligible or able to obtain authorization for such access including eligibility to the Canadian Controlled Goods Program and able to obtain a Canadian NATO Secret clearance.