Technical Program Leader

POSITION

Technical Program Leader

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead a multi‑disciplinary, cross‑functional team through concept, development, qualification, and production release of complex optical modules, owning Alpha / Beta deliveries and executive status reporting;
• Develop, monitor, and control integrated master schedules, budgets, and risk registers; identify gaps and drive process improvements that question the status quo;
• Coordinate vendor / partner interactions, prototyping, test and characterization activities, and communicate frequently with customers and product‑line management;
• Define and maintain the product specification, translating market / customer needs into clear engineering requirements and system budgets;
• Own the system‑level architecture, bringing optics, electronics, firmware, and mechanics into a cohesive design and chairing formal design reviews;

Guide problem‑solving, root‑cause analysis, and engineering‑change control, ensuring the design continues to satisfy requirements through the lifecycle; and

Provide authoritative technical input to operations, quality, sales, and customers; mentor engineers in optics, electronics, algorithms, and software.

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT

Permanent

LANGUAGE OF WORK

WAGE

CAD 160,000.00 to CAD 180,000.00 per annum based on a 37.5 hour work week. Eligible for discretionary performance‑based increase and bonus.

BENEFITS

Disability insurance, dental insurance and extended medical insurance.

LOCATION(s) OF WORK

61 Bill Leathem Drive, Ottawa, ON K2J 0P

EDUCATION

Bachelor degree in Optical, Electrical, Physics, or a related engineering field.

EXPERIENCE & OTHER REQUIREMENTS

Technical depth in one or more of the following areas : lasers, MEMS / LCoS, Si Photonics, coherent optics, and free space optics; and

Proven experience with DFx, Six‑sigma, ISO 9001 / TL 9000, and project tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Oracle, Agile, Tableau, or PMI / Scrum / PRINCE2 methodologies.

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