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Avionics & Communication - IPT Head
- Montreal, QC, Canada
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Role: Avionics & Communication - IPT Head
Location: Montreal, Canada
Contract & Full-Time
Fully Onsite
Job Description:
- Lead the Avionics & Communication Integrated Product Team (IPT) and ensure alignment with overall aircraft program objectives.
- Own avionics IPT deliverables across scope, schedule, cost, quality, technical performance, and program milestones.
- Coordinate multi-disciplinary teams including systems, hardware, software, V&V, certification, electrical, and integration engineering.
- Serve as the primary technical interface with customers, suppliers, certification authorities, and internal stakeholders.
- Define and manage avionics system architecture covering VHF/UHF, SATCOM, data links, GNSS, INS, navigation, flight control, and monitoring interfaces.
- Drive system-level trade studies, technology selection, architecture decisions, and interface definitions.
- Ensure compliance with ARP4754A, ARP4761, DO-178C, and DO-254.
- Develop and review System Requirements (SRD), Interface Control Documents (ICD), and architecture documents.
- Lead avionics integration at LRU and system/aircraft level.
- Oversee V&V activities including HIL/SIL simulation, ground testing, and flight test support.
- Ensure interoperability across avionics, EWIS, electrical power, cockpit, and other aircraft subsystems.
- Drive certification activities in accordance with FAA, EASA, and DGCA requirements.
- Manage certification artifacts including PSAC, PHAC, PDR/CDR reviews, compliance matrices, test plans, and reports.
- Interface with DERs, ARs, and certification authorities.
- Support proposal/RFQ responses, estimation, and technical solutioning.
- Lead technical risk mitigation, configuration management, and engineering change control.
- Manage dependencies across structures, propulsion, electrical, and other IPTs.
- Lead distributed onsite/offshore engineering teams.
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Responsibilities
Lead the Avionics & Communication IPT and own its scope, schedule, cost, quality, technical performance, and program deliverables. Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering, integration, verification, and certification activities while serving as the primary interface with customers, suppliers, authorities, and other aircraft teams.
Requirements
The role calls for senior leadership of complex avionics architecture, integration, verification, and certification work across aircraft subsystems and distributed engineering teams. It requires working knowledge of ARP4754A, ARP4761, DO-178C, DO-254, and FAA, EASA, and DGCA certification processes; no education requirement is stated.
Skills
- Avionics Systems
- Integrated Product Team Leadership
- Systems Engineering
- Avionics Architecture
- Requirements Management
- Interface Control
- Systems Integration
- Verification and Validation
- Certification
- Technical Risk Management
- Configuration Management
- Cross-Functional Team Coordination
- Customer and Supplier Interface
- Flight Test Support
- Engineering Change Control
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Categories
- Engineering
- Management & Leadership
- Transportation
Keywords
- Avionics
- Communication Systems
- Integrated Product Team
- VHF/UHF
- SATCOM
- Data Links
- GNSS
- INS
- Navigation Systems
- Flight Control
- ARP4754A
- ARP4761
- DO-178C
- DO-254
- System Requirements Document
- Interface Control Document
- Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation
- Software-in-the-Loop Simulation
- Verification and Validation
- Aircraft Integration
- FAA
- EASA
- DGCA
- PSAC
- PHAC
- PDR/CDR
- Certification Compliance
- Configuration Management
- Engineering Change Control
- EWIS