Engineering Student, Engineering Management

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For those who dream of advancing our space in the Universe and on Earth, we’ll take you there.

Serving the world from our Canadian home and our global offices, MDA is an international space mission partner and robotics & space operations, aviation charting, satellite systems and Geointelligence pioneer with a 50-year story of firsts on and above the Earth. Today, we’re leading the charge towards viable Moon colonies, enhanced Earth observation, communication in a hyper-connected world, and more.

We’re fueled by a pioneering spirit that carries us beyond, and together we enable highly skilled people to continually push boundaries and tackle big challenges requiring solutions that endure and inspire.

Are you ready to launch the next stage of your career in the new space economy? We would love to hear from you!

As a member of the Engineering team you will work on our programs such as CHORUS Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Satellite, Canadian Surface Combatant (CSC), Square Kilometer Array (SKA) radio telescope, Aeronautical Navigation products, and Marine Insights products. You will work as part of a technical team to develop new capabilities, enhance existing capabilities and deliver solutions to our customers.

As part of your growth and development we will work with you to establish your development actions alongside regular progress reviews. You are likely to move through various projects to gain the experience and knowledge to progress your career with us.

We’re on the hunt for a motivated and talented Engineering Student, Engineering Management on our Geointelligence Engineering Team at our Richmondoffice. This is an 8 month term starting in Sep 2022.

Overall the successful candidate would be treated similar to a new graduate joining our company, where tasks will be assigned relative to the level of schooling and experience achieved to date.

As our Engineering Student, Engineering Management you will be embedded in the Engineering Management team to gain experience and insights into the challenge of organizing and leading a large matrixed engineering organization. If you are a people person and see management in your future, this is the coop position for you. The most impactful engineers are those that master their technical skills, people skills and managerial skills. This position will give you a chance to hone the latter two!

Specifically, you could be working on or leading projects to:

• Improve resource management and tools
• Improve engineer training programmes
• Improve cost governance within the engineering organization
• Develop policies, processes, tools and frameworks for knowledge sharing, capability development, and recognition
  

You may also get exposure to (based on your desires):

• Engineer recruiting processes
• Continuous Improvement processes
• Engineer Review Team Audits
• Department level decision analysis reviews
• Engineering Management Best Practices
  

Responsibilities

• Configuring, Designing, Coding, testing, debugging and documenting custom Engineering Management tools (e.g. Excel, JIRA, Confluence, etc)
• Leading special projects
• Aid in the development of engineering policy and processes
• Coordinating engineering team events
  

Experience And Skills Required

• Working towards a bachelor’s degree in engineering
• Excellent organization and leadership skills
• Willingness to lead diverse groups of people and projects
• Confidence to lead efficient, purposeful meetings
• Possess ambition and the ability to influence stakeholders to achieve objectives outside their primary focus
• Ability to quickly learn on the job and leverage your experiences and knowledge
• Excellent problem-solving and critical thinking skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Team oriented approach
  

Desirable

• Experience working in a Systems Engineering environment
• Experience in software development
• Experience in project management
  

Comments/Special Considerations

Successful candidates must obtain and hold security clearance at the reliability status level, and pass security assessment for the Controlled Goods Program (CGP) and ITAR.

We’re a dream team of purpose-driven, collaborative and passionate people, and we are constantly looking for others to join #TeamMDA to ignite new and innovative approaches to problem-solving that push us forward to improve life on and above Earth. If you’re excited to expand our place in space and driven to inspire the next generation, we’ll take you there.

We have entered a new era of exploration and development, and MDA welcomes all who yearn to suit up and be part of it. An equal opportunity employer prizing diversity, integrity and collaboration, we are committed to growing MDA’s and Canada’s leadership in this next golden age.

MDA is an equal opportunity employer prizing diversity and inclusion. We are committed to treating all employees and applicants for employment with respect and dignity. If you require assistance and/or reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please feel free to notify us.

COVID-19 Hiring Update

Strengthening our workforce is more important than ever to meet our customers’ mission-critical needs. We are continuing to hire many talented people, and we are closely monitoring COVID-19 to ensure safe hiring practices are used. This includes limiting onsite candidate interviews and prioritizing video interviews.

With a priority on maintaining the safety of our employees, customers and communities, MDA has implemented a mandatory vaccination policy for employees and visitors. Please speak to a recruiter for more details

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