Job Description
Position Title: Program Chief Engineer
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting Direct Hire Program Chief Engineer opportunity located in Toronto, Canada
Job Responsibilities:
- This role offers hybrid flexibility but requires an on-site work presence at the Toronto HQ
- Provide technical leadership across Systems, Software, Electrical, Mechanical, RF, GNC, Payload, AIT, Manufacturing, Operations, and Product Assurance
- Drive engineering convergence toward a technically coherent spacecraft and keep engineering activities aligned with mission objectives
- Drive engineering progress, maintain technical momentum, and identify and remove technical roadblocks
- Ensure timely technical decision-making and accountability across engineering disciplines
- Lead rigorous technical reviews across all spacecraft subsystems, including design reviews, anomaly reviews, and readiness reviews
- Challenge assumptions, analyses, margins, interfaces, and verification evidence
- Make timely, evidence-based technical decisions that balance performance, cost, schedule, manufacturability, reliability, and mission risk
- Communicate technical direction clearly and consistently across the engineering organization
- Translate complex technical issues into concise recommendations for executive leadership
- Represent Engineering during customer reviews, supplier meetings, executive briefings, and governance boards
- Ensure decisions, assumptions, risks, and actions are clearly documented and communicated
- Build alignment across Engineering, Program Management, Product Assurance, Manufacturing, Operations, and executive leadership
- Mentor senior engineers and future technical leaders
- Continuously raise the standard of technical rigor, engineering reviews, and engineering excellence
- Drive continuous improvement, platform standardization, and lessons learned
Job Qualifications:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant engineering discipline
- 15+ years of experience developing complex spacecraft or aerospace systems
- Experience serving as the technical authority or senior technical leader for at least one spacecraft development program
- Extensive knowledge of spacecraft architecture, integration, verification, manufacturing, qualification, launch, and mission operations
- Exceptional technical judgment, communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills
- Preferred: Chief Engineer, Deputy Chief Engineer, or equivalent technical leadership experience
- Preferred: Constellation or multi-spacecraft program experience
- Preferred: Experience across multiple spacecraft disciplines
- Preferred: Mission assurance, integration and test campaign, launch campaign, and on-orbit operations experience
- Preferred: Experience driving engineering standardization and AI-enabled engineering workflows
Job Details:
- Job Type: Direct Hire
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Pay Rate Range: $230K-$250K CAD
- Due to government contract requirements, this position is restricted to US Citizen, Green Card Holder, Canadian Citizen or Permanent Resident only.
About Protingent: Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation - from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We're passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.
