Manager, Engineering

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a multidisciplinary engineering team across mechanical, electrical, software, controls, and systems engineering through regular one-on-ones, performance feedback, career development planning, and team capability building.
• Own the engineering operating system by developing, maintaining, and continuously improving engineering procedures, workflows, design controls, review processes, and development gates to improve efficiency, consistency, traceability, and quality.
• Support, maintain, and strengthen the Quality Management System (QMS) by ensuring engineering processes, technical documentation, design reviews, change control, approvals, and records align with internal quality requirements and audit expectations.
• Manage engineering standards and governance, including developing and maintaining internal engineering standards, procedures, templates, and work instructions, and implementing applicable external design standards such as ABS, DNV, and relevant commercial and defence standards.
• Monitor, assess, and implement applicable regulatory and professional practice changes, including requirements and guidance from Engineers and Geoscientists BC (EGBC), and translate them into practical engineering procedures, expectations, and controlled documentation.
• Build and maintain the engineering team’s capability to deliver autonomous subsea systems by ensuring appropriate skills, roles, training, tools, and engineering discipline are in place across the organization.
• Partner with Project Managers, Program Managers, production, operations, and manufacturing to ensure engineering resources, processes, and standards support successful delivery, without owning day-to-day project leadership.
• Oversee the engineering framework for verification, validation, integration, and testing of subsea robotic systems, ensuring the team follows robust processes for pressure-tolerant and sealed system verification, lab validation, tank testing, field trials, and deployment readiness.
• Guide technical governance and sound engineering decision-making across propulsion, power, controls, sensing, communications, navigation, and payload integration, while enabling technical leads and project teams to execute the work.
• Support hiring efforts by identifying talent needs, interviewing candidates, onboarding new team members, and building an effective, collaborative, and accountable engineering culture.