Hybrid Intermediate Shipboard Systems Engineer

at Thales

• Job title: Intermediate Shipboard Systems Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: CA$86,138 - CA$154,432 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Ottawa, Canada

About the role

• Intermediate Shipboard Systems Engineer developing electronic shipboard systems for Thales in Canada's national defense initiatives. Collaborating on design, testing, and integration for naval vessels.

Responsibilities

• Tailor the system engineering process, practices and tools. Provide timely and accurate status updates.
• Develop the preliminary and detailed designs for system and subsystem elements. Identify, characterize, and describe issues in the system or its design through problem reports and document and design reviews.
• Author technical documentation to capture the system and subsystem designs including the architecture, interfaces, and installation elements. Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure the designs are consistent with needs, desires, and concerns of the end-users.
• Collaborate with other functions during the implementation and integration of the system and subsystem designs. Resolution of technical issues arising during the implementation, integration and testing of the system and subsystem elements. Support the installation and/or integration testing of the systems remotely or on customer site.
• Conduct research on assigned shipboard systems, requirements, standards, and new technologies.
• Produce engineering artifacts including (but not limited to) first principles drawings and system schematics, Statements of Work, System Requirements Documents (SRD), Problem and technical reports.
• Take part in Set to Work (STW), Harbour Acceptance Tests (HAT), and Sea Acceptance Tests (SATs) of assigned shipboard systems.
• Planning, authoring, and executing integration and acceptance tests. Coordinating and collaborating with a multi-disciplinary dispersed team.

Requirements

• University or college degree in engineering or a related discipline.
• Professional Engineer designation OR eligibility to acquire such a designation
• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in the design and integration of complex systems in commercial and/or military domains.

Benefits

• Company paid Extended Health, Dental, HSA, Life, AD&D, Short-term Disability, Cancer Care Program, travel insurance, Employee Assistance Plan and Well-Being program.
• Retirement Savings Plans (RRSP, DCPP, TFSA) with a company contribution and a match to a DCPP, with no vesting period.
• Company paid holidays, vacation days, and paid sick leave.
• Voluntary Life, AD&D, Critical Illness, Long-Term Disability.
• Employee Discounts on home, auto, and gym membership.