Production Engineering Director

Operations 

• Oversee the department's operations by defining the vision, objectives and priorities while optimizing your team's skills; 
• Demonstrate leadership to ensure that the team completes targeted priority projects; 
• Standardize departmental procedures and ensure their application; 
• Participate in the design and design review of our new products in DFMA to ensure the sustainability of design operations and that the product meets our internal manufacturing standards; 
• Contribute to the analysis of quality problems, production issues, requests for new products or product improvements, in order to guide the department's initiatives; 
• Analyze strengths, weaknesses, threats and opportunities to improve departmental and divisional efficiency through key performance indicators (KPIs); 
• Facilitate communication between the R&D team and production so that product changes and new products are designed and integrated optimally; 
• Implement monitoring and reporting mechanisms for ongoing projects;  
• Actively participate in strategic manufacturing planning and the implementation of new 
• technologies or production equipment; 
• Supervise the management of configurable products; 
• Supervise the management of special products outside our product catalog;  
• Supervise, coach, motivate, listen and optimize performance: 
  • production engineering project manager to ensure that changes to existing products and new products are optimally integrated into production; 
  • production technical support to optimize the production process and oversee the implementation of corrective actions in the event of production problems; 
  • the drafting team, to ensure that manufacturing drawings for existing equipment are kept up to date, and that drawings for new equipment from R&D are adapted to our production standards; 
  • the workshop team (toolmakers) to ensure the creation and smooth running of tooling, and to respond to urgent technical requests from production; 
  • the technical writer and methods technician to ensure that products are manufactured to optimized, well-documented standards; 
• Act as a leader and mentor, ensuring that skills, tools and processes evolve to meet the division's short- and long-term objectives. 

Human resources 

• Ensure the optimal composition of the team with the skills required to carry out the Engineering Department's missions; 
• Improve and support the integration and training of new employees in order to respect and maintain a common standard; 
• Actively participate in the hiring, evaluation and development of team members. 
• Maintain a high level of mobilization and collaboration within the department. 

• Flexible schedule with convenient office hours 
• Timebank program 
• Friday afternoons off year-round 
• Up to 5 weeks of vacation per year, including 3 weeks of vacation upon being hired 
• Group insurance 
• 13 paid holidays 
• Telemedicine service 
• Pension plan with employer contribution 

• Strong leadership and team management skills; 
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; 
• Ability to prioritize and take initiative; 
• Ability to develop, evolve and execute agile engineering strategies; 
• Experience in mechanical project management; 
• Superior ability to work under pressure and at an accelerated pace; 
• Strong planning skills and ability to complete several projects simultaneously; 
• Proficiency in computer-aided design (CAD) tools and software (Solidworks); 
• Mastery of the JIRA management tool (Asset); 
• Experience in product development (Asset); 
• Solid knowledge of ERP, PLM, PDM systems; 
• Solid experience in mechanical product manufacturing, mainly in sheet metal, bar and tube processing; 

• 10 years' experience in a manufacturing environment, including at least 5 in technical or engineering team management; 
• Experience in personnel supervision;  
• Member of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec (asset);