Title: Manager - Engineering Process, Intelligence & Continuous Improvement
Waterdown, ON, CA, L9H 0C5
Job Title: Manager, Engineering Process, Intelligence & Continuous Improvement
Job Code: 46377
Job Location: Onsite - Waterdown, On
Primary Responsibilities
- Provide leadership, guidance and mentorship of an engaged, high performing engineering operations team
- Enable data-driven decision making across all of Engineering
- Partner with Engineering senior leadership to translate objectives into roadmaps for engineering infrastructure and tools
- Own the strategy, roadmap, implementation, operation, and continuous improvement of engineering platforms, including key areas such as:
- AI Tools
- Infrastructure and tools to support integration of AI technology into engineering processes that produce improvements to engineering efficiency
- DevOps
- Infrastructure and tools supporting efficient software and firmware delivery including Atlassian (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket) and CI/CD (Jenkins) services
- Engineering Applications
- Infrastructure and tools supporting Configuration Management and other engineering-wide systems, such as Teamcenter
- Engineering Reporting
- Infrastructure and tools to deliver data, analytics and reporting that enables engineering-wide decision making, including the engineering labour database
- AI Tools
- Establish good operating practices for the team including but not limited to:
- Priority management
- Project tracking
- Code/design reviews
- Application support
- Be responsible for project execution of all activities in their team throughout the entire project life cycle
- Actively contribute to infrastructure administration and tool development activities within their team where needed
- Develop positive working relationships across all engineering functions and Information Technology (IT)
- Partner with IT to align technology roadmaps, integrate enterprise platforms, and deliver solutions
- Develop and maintain productive relationships with technology vendors and service providers
- Provide metrics, reports and performance measures for your team’s results, including regular reporting to the Engineering Management Team.
Preferred Capabilities
- Experience leading multidisciplinary technical teams spanning DevOps, enterprise applications, and data analytics
- Experience integrating existing teams with newly established functions
- Experience managing strategic vendor relationships and influencing technology investment decisions.
- Experience with project management of complex software application development and roll-out
- Broad experience across software delivery platforms, engineering applications, and data analytics solutions, including but not limited to:
- AI technologies applied to engineering and/or business processes
- Source control and CI/CD applications such as Bitbucket and Jenkins
- Business systems such as Teamcenter Unified, ERP-LN and MES
- Business reporting solutions such as PowerBI and Grafana
- Database solutions supporting data intelligence
- Internal software-as-a-service application development and support
- Familiarity with industry best practices for software application development include source control management, Agile practices and Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) methodologies
- Passion and experience with making Continuous Improvement and DevOps an integral part of an engineering organization
- Experience establishing strong relationships with leaders across the organization to influence priorities, align stakeholders and drive results
- Experience assessing and hiring the best talent for your team
Desired Education and Experiences
- University degree or College diploma in Information Technology, Computer Science or a related Engineering discipline.
- Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 9 years prior related experience. Graduate Degree with a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
- Preference for demonstrated experience in project or people leadership
*This posting is for a current vacancy. In the province of Ontario, Canada, the pay range for this position will be $126500-$176500