Rotary Wing COE Chief Engineer

Who We Are: 

• CAE Vision: Our vision is to be the worldwide partner of choice in defense and security, and civil aviation by revolutionizing our customers’ training and critical operations with digitally immersive solutions to elevate safety, efficiency and readiness. 

• CAE Defense & Security Mission: CAE's Defense and Security business unit focuses on helping prepare military customers to develop and maintain the highest levels of mission readiness. 

• CAE Values: Empowerment, Innovation, Excellence, Integrity and OneCAE make us who we are and we strive to make a difference in the world while helping each other succeed. 

What We Have to Offer: 

• Comprehensive and competitive benefits package and flexibility that promotes work-life balance 

• A work environment where all employees are valued, respected and safe 

• Freedom to succeed by enabling team members to deliver, take initiatives and make decisions 

• Recognition, professional development, advancement and having fun! 

Summary  

The D&S Rotary Wing COE Chief Engineer is a leadership role accountable, empowered, and responsible for driving program engineering cost, schedule, staffing, technical compliance, and R&O management performance across the Rotary Wing business. This role will work closely with the D&S Rotary Wing VP and engineering the functional leaders, be a direct report to the D&S US Chief Engineer and will have direct report Directorate Chief Engineers that oversee Rotary Chief Engineers and the day-to-day operations of the D&S US Rotary Wing COE. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities  

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  

• Supports the D&S US Chief Engineer in the execution of programs across the D&S US Rotary Wing COE. 

• Accountable, empowered, and responsible for driving program engineering cost, schedule, technical compliance, and R&O management performance across the Rotary Wing business in alignment with the overarching financial plan and customer milestones 

• Accountable for D&S Rotary Wing engineering ROM, bid, proposal, baseline, and EAC accuracy, fidelity and viability 

• Accountable for ensuring team establishes staffing demand needs and priorities, and coordinates with the functional matrix leaders to ensure staffing supply and overarching workforce skills management plan aligns with the business needs 

• Identifies, reviews, and tracks Rotary Wing–elevated critical paths, and aggressively coordinates support across all business disciplines to mitigate identified risks and capture opportunities 

• Content generation, presentations, and delivery of recurring engineering regarding Rotary Wing content 

• Drives teams to be a metrics-based organization, relying on both past and forward-looking information to drive execution, planning, EACs, and risk/opportunity assessments 

• Direct-line supervisor of D&S Rotary Wing Chief Engineering (CE) staff, responsible for CE workforce management and development, succession planning, performance-related functions, and overhead budget planning and performance 

• Accountable for documenting the Rotary Wing strategic product-facing technology needs in collaboration with the business development leads and the D&S Technology and Product Team. 

• Accountable for driving process and product convergence across the Rotary Wing COE and in alignment with D&S International, plus reinforcing product reuse, where applicable, in coordination with the CAE Global Products and Technologies (GTP) team 

• Supports the engineering enterprise with a continuous improvement mindset while enforcing standards, policies, and procedures 

• Team accountability, responsibility, and authority for executing the engineering elements of ROM, bid, and proposals through collaboration with the functional matrix organizations, CoE leads, business development, and capture leads 

Qualifications and Education Requirements  

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science, or related engineering discipline 

• Minimum of 15 years of experience working in an Engineering discipline 

• Minimum of 10 years of experience with simulation training systems with a focus on aircraft platforms 

• minimum of 10 years of experience directly managing and leading teams. 

• Experience with software development, complex software systems, and hardware / software integration, engineering operations and extensive knowledge of program execution. 

• Due to U.S. Government contract requirements, only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role.  

Preferred Skills  

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills 

• Ability to effectively lead technical and program execution teams of teams 

• proven track record of leading effective teams 

• positive, can-do mindset 

Security Responsibilities  

Must comply with all company security and data protection / usage policies and procedures.  Personally responsible for proper marking and handling of all information and materials, in any form. Shall not divulge any information, or afford access, to other employees not having a need-to-know. Shall not divulge information outside company without management approval.  All government and proprietary information will be accessed and stored electronically on company provided resources.   

•  Incumbent must be eligible for DoD Personal Security Clearance.  

Due to U.S. Government contract requirements, only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role.  

Work Environment  

• Work sometimes performed in an environment where irritants such as noise, temperature, and lighting variations may exist, but there is low chance of injury, accident, or occupational health problems.   

• this is a full-time on-site position.   

• Moderate to high levels of stress will be experienced with this position.  

Physical Demands  

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.   

• Must be able to travel both domestic and internationally. 

• Must be familiar with and be able to work on simulation training devices. 

• Must be able to work overtime and off-shift. 

OTHER DUTIES
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are 
required of the employee for their job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

CAE USA Inc. is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to any 
protected characteristic, including disability and protected veteran status, as defined under federal, state, or local laws.

Applicants needing reasonable accommodations should contact their recruiter at any point in the recruitment process. If you need 
assistance to submit your application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at 
hrops@caemilusa.com