Vice-President Global Operations Jobs

Role And Responsibilities

Passionate about your field? Looking for a work environment where you can innovate, reach greater heights, and collaborate with experts from a wide range of sectors? Want to join a world‑class company and industry leader and be proud to contribute to our projects and mission? Come share your passion with us!

At CAE, our manufacturing operations are creative and have considerable business acumen. Sound like you? That’s why we need your expertise and passion to complete our team!

The role we are offering you:

Reporting to the Senior Vice President Flight Services & Global Operations, the incumbent develops, communicates, and executes strategies and objectives for the Global Hardware Engineering, Manufacturing and Facilities processes to deliver quality products and services in a customer satisfaction manner and to drive business growth.

Provides leadership and direction to the operational activities of the organization with the objective of maximizing growth and profitability as well as day to day management to all company operations functions, which include Hardware Engineering, Planning, Estimating, Inventory management, Fabrication, Assembly & Test, Manufacturing-Engineering, Maintenance (Equipment and Building), Environment, Health, and Safety management.

Develop Strategic plans:

• Deploy Corporate EHS Strategic plan for Montreal Facility and ensure the development of the MTL EHS strategy plan accordingly.
• Develop the Global Facilities strategic plan and executes to enhance profitability, productivity, and efficiencies throughout business units.
• Develop the yearly business and budget plan to formalize the planning process and produce corporate, departmental, and individual objectives.
• Develop the Global Hardware Engineering & Manufacturing strategic plan and executes to enhance profitability, productivity, and efficiencies throughout this organization.
• Develop and implement long range strategies for expanding Global Hardware Engineering & Manufacturing capabilities to meet Company and client needs.

Execute Strategic plans and drive continuous improvement:

• Drive global Facilities improvement to achieve and surpass profitability, business goals and objectives.
• Provides leadership and guidance to staff for developing innovative methodologies to improve operations and deliver cost-effective performance on programs and projects.
• Drive global HW Engineering and Manufacturing improvement to achieve and surpass profitability, business goals and objectives.
• Develop and control the HW Engineering, Manufacturing & Facilities budgets.
• Foster good relationship with the Unifor union to achieve mutually beneficial and sustainable solutions that effectively promote healthy labor relationships and contribute to the company’s bottom line.
• Drive EHS improvement and act as the Environment, health & safety champion for the Montreal facility ensuring that the culture focuses, supports and rewards health & safety as a priority.
• Ensures the effectiveness of HW Engineering & manufacturing and implements projects on time to achieve complete customer satisfaction, meet project completion dates and margin goals.
• Lead managers to evaluate and take actions that are consistent with the company’s overall strategy.
• Leads, organizes, and motivates all operations professionals in a manner that positions the HW Engineering, Manufacturing, Facilities and EHS teams to assume a strategic role.
• Ensure the Development of key performance indicators and other quantifiable measurement tools to track results of department activities and regularly reports to top management.

Develop and manage internal client/upper management relationship:

• Work closely with the Global Technology and Product (GTP) leadership team.
• Establish and maintain effective partnering relationships within the Business units, including Group Presidents, Sales, and Marketing, GSS and internal support organizations and with external customers.
• Optimize common inventory by working with businesses, GSS and the hardware engineering team obsolescence management plan.
• Work with GSS team to address supply chain shortages via re-design by the HW team.
• Direct third-party vendors and consultants where required to support operational changes and program implementations.

Our ideal candidate has:

• Possess a wide degree of creativity and latitude.
• Capacity to operate at strategic and tactical levels.
• Understanding of P&L financial statements, supply chain management and business optimization programs, sustainability, Return on Capex Employed
• Proven experience managing all stakeholders through implementation and change.
• Minimum of 12 years of relevant experience
• Ability to lead, think and act cross functionally.
• Expertise in streamlining processes, driving innovation, and securing cost savings.
• Proven experience in budgeting, project management, operations, and human resources.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Strong ability to provide skilled and practical guidance.
• Ability to manage by influence, built internal consensus.
• Global leadership and highly effective relationship management.
• Proven experience in managing innovation and continuous improvement in manufacturing.
• Bachelor’s degree in related field

CAE offers:

• Attractive employee benefits.
• The opportunity to travel internationally.
• The opportunity to represent the organization at external conventions and conferences.
• The opportunity to work on a variety of projects on a multidisciplinary team.
• An environment where your initiatives will be acknowledged and valued.
• Flex time.
• The opportunity to be involved on boards of directors.

Ready to share your passion for your work? Don’t wait, apply now.

With over 13,000 employees located in over 40 countries, CAE is a is a high-technology company, bringing the digital and physical worlds closer together to create a safer world. To learn more: www.cae.com

Position Type

Regular

CAE thanks all applicants for their interest. However, only those whose background and experience match the requirements of the role will be contacted.

Equal Employment Opportunity

At CAE, everyone is welcome to contribute to our success. With no exception.

As captured in our overarching value "One CAE", we’re proud to work as one passionate, boundaryless and inclusive team.

At CAE, all employees are welcome regardless of race, nationality, colour, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, neurodiversity or age.

The masculine form may be used in this job description solely for ease of reading, but refers to men, women and the gender diverse.

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