Product Technical Lead

Location: Peterborough, Ontario

A Product Technical Lead requires advanced formal engineering, training and experience, system analysis skills to lead project planning, development, certification as per aerospace standards. Responsibilities include interfacing between customers and design teams to formalise the requirements; generate the plans, interface and design documents; and perform architecture design and safety analysis according to company and engineering department processes; and lead the engineering teams throughout the product development, verification and qualification phases

Responsibilities

• Responsible for ensuring that systems engineering tasks are performed in accordance with Safran Electronics and Defense Canada engineering procedures.
• Responsible for certification process, manage and/or generate systems engineering related documentation that include ARP4754A/DO-254/DO-178/DO-160/RAMS plans, high level design, technical requirements documents, Interface Control Documents, test requirements, test plans, methods of compliance and present to internal and external stakeholders.
• Perform Environmental and EMI/EMC (DO-160) requirement analysis and support qualification testing and results analysis.
• Collaborate with designers within cross functional teams (hardware/electrical and software) to develop the required designs/products and guide integration of sub-systems.
• Continually participate and support program risk assessment and mitigation
• Analyze and solve any detected problems within a team setting; Effectively lead all technical aspects of a development program to produce a product that meets the customer requirements; Competence to perform validation and verification of the product at systems, hardware and software levels .
• Perform causal/root cause analysis of detected problems and mitigate them.
• Plan and conduct product technical/customer/Quality/ Audit reviews and testing activities, reports and documentation.
• Effectively plan, manage and achieve all the design goals and milestones of the product development program.
• Support existing programs to meet other customer requirements including conduct of technical investigations, integration development, and program review meetings.
• Other duties as assigned.
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent combination of training and experience
• Strong experience with embedded control systems preferably in the commercial aviation industry for Engines, Nose Wheel Steering, and Landing Gear control.
• Competence in ARP4754A, ARP4761 processes.
• Competence in DO-160, DO-178, DO-254 processes.
• Experience in requirements management tools such as DOORS, ReqView etc.
• Competence in avionics/aerospace product development and project engineering principles, methods and practices including knowledge of Configuration Management and Quality Assurance practice.