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The Opportunity

Product Development Manager - Electronics Computing

As the Product Development Manager, you will lead a dynamic group of Engineers responsible for the development of new products and the support of the existing product lines. You plan and oversee the product development related activities, ensuring objectives are accomplished to meet the business and customer objectives.

You will also work closely with other cross-functional team members in Engineering, New Product Introduction (NPI), Customer Support, Sales and Marketing. You coach, mentor, guide, and help nurture the development team to realize its full potential and adopt our culture of quality and customer satisfaction.

Location: Ottawa, ON

Curtiss-Wright invests in the development, recruitment, and retention of critical skills as part of its model for business success. We offer a competitive wage, a comprehensive benefit package, RRSP, tuition reimbursement, and paid vacation/holidays.

Your Challenge

• Supervise the work assignments of a highly knowledgeable and motivated project teams.
• Pre- and Post-Sales support when needed by Product Marketing or Customer Support
• Manage 3rd party relationships and coordination of work for cross site initiatives.
• Establish effective practices to attract, develop, motivate and retain high caliber staff.
• Facilitate and ensure individual and team roles and responsibilities are understood.
• Help lead cross-functional problem-solving initiatives.
• Responsible for the career development, training and performance evaluations of staff allocated to the Engineering Team.
• Review testing protocols for compliance with accepted standards and verifies testing results to ensure the desired functionality has been achieved.
• Participate in bid/project activities such as defining architectures, developing technical proposals and providing detailed cost and schedule estimates.
• Be a hands-on leader who achieves success through modelling best practices and a service attitude.
• Interact with customers regarding requirements and technical solutions.

Skills Required

• Ability to estimate/schedule development projects.
• Outstanding interpersonal and presentation skills - both written and verbal; to liaise with internal and external customers.
• Team orientated and commitment to customer satisfaction.
• Detailed knowledge of embedded computing systems architecture, hardware, software and related support requirements in the military/aerospace industry
• Demonstrated drive and ability to achieve goals in an innovative and fast paced environment.
• The candidate should be a results-oriented team player who leads by example, holds themselves accountable for performance, takes ownership of their responsibilities, and champions process improvement initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and able to react to shifting priorities to meet business need.
• High attention to detail and solid engineering background
• Self-confident leader capable of motivating and mentoring their staff.
• Demonstrated creativity, foresight, and mature engineering judgment in anticipating and solving unprecedented engineering problems.

Education/Experience

• Leading-edge Intel and NXP/Qualcomm processors (x86, PA, ARM)
• Working knowledge of PCB technologies including stack up definition, material selection, IPC etc.
• Experience/familiarity in the following is an asset:
• Prior experience in a managerial or leadership role is preferred.
• Design for rugged environments
• High-end FPGA design
• Open system standards such as VME, VPX, XMC and PMC
• Experience with product configuration management
• Leading-edge Broadcom Ethernet Switches
• Development of electronic assemblies for aerospace applications
• Latest embedded industry technologies, such as Gen 3/4 PCI Express, 40GbE Ethernet, USB 3, DDR4 memory, etc.
• Design for manufacturing processes and techniques
• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, Technologist Diploma or equivalent will be considered.
• DO-254 Safety Certification
• 8 years industry experience relating to electronics computing.

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Compliance Statement

This position may require exposure to export-controlled information and subject to additional security screening. In the event information provided during the security screening reveals ineligibility to access export-controlled information, any offer of employment may be reconsidered or withdrawn.

Curtiss-Wright values diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

If you require accommodation due to a disability at any time during the recruitment and/or assessment process, please contact Talent Acquisition and we will make all reasonable efforts to accommodate your request.