Junior Systems Engineer Jobs

YVR is a place of connection, bringing together people, places and cargo while ensuring a safe and efficient experience for everyone. Airport System Design is essential to YVR's aviation functions, delivering integrated engineering solutions to optimize present operations and strategic capacity inputs for future plans.

Position Overview

Are you curious to understand the interactions between complex systems? Are you interested in Why and What a system needs to do, not just how it does it? Are you passionate about aviation?

We are offering a permanent, full-time opportunity for a Junior Systems Engineer to join our Airport System Design team within the Airport Capacity Department. Reporting to the Manager, Airport System Design, the successful candidate will collaborate with various Airport Authority departments and business partners to provide process design and demand/capacity assessments for airport facilities. This dynamic role will guide operational planning and support long range airport project development.

Key Responsibilities Include

• Providing project management of specific planning initiatives or studies related to airport facility development.
• Breakdown complex systems and work collaboratively with operational stakeholders to capture current processes and define future processing requirements.
• Participating as a design team member for capital projects as airport capacity SME. Providing designers with capacity requirements and demand assessments.
• Collaborating with various departments to provide a consistent planning basis and define future facility requirements by translating strategic goals into operational objectives and system requirements, then transforming system requirements into clear, concise verification plans.
• Supporting operational planning by completing current and short-term analytical assessments of passenger, baggage and aircraft movement demands and capacity.
• Supporting the development of the long-term capital plan through translation of the long-term passenger forecast, design day schedule and process definitions, inputs and assumptions into facility requirements based on analytical demand and capacity assessments.

Key Qualifications Include

• Demonstrate ability to understand the interactions between complex systems and resolve challenges/conflicts across multiple systems by applying changes to other associated systems
• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Design, Industrial, Process or Mechanical Engineering (or equivalent), plus eligibility to register as Professional Engineer or an Engineer in Training with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia (APEGBC)
• Strong project management, organization and documentation abilities, as well as effective communication skills
• Proficiency in MS Office, Project and Outlook. Experience with data analysis with R or Python, simulation modelling and CAD would be considered an asset
• Knowledge of airport operations, airport design and industrial and system design engineering principals and techniques would be considered an asset
• 2 years’ work experience in process design, facility planning, operational research or application of statistical techniques. Simulation modelling in an operational environment is considered an asset

Who We Are

YVR is more than just an airport. We connect our beautiful province and all it has to offer to the world. We are all leaders and trailblazers for change and innovation, so no matter the department or team you’re a part of, the work you do matters.

At YVR, we are flexible in everything we do. We will work together to find ways to deliver customer excellence that helps us all thrive. We strive to provide an environment that reflects the diversity of our communities, allowing us to better serve them.

Whatever your background and wherever you’re from, you belong at YVR. We want to make sure you truly belong and help you reach your full potential. If you have any questions about accessibility or require any assistance applying, please reach out at [email protected].

Join us on this journey as we continue to transform our airport to better serve our communities.