Shop Operations Associate

Title: Shop Operations Associate

Location: Medicine Hat, AB, Canada

Start Date: Immediate start preferred, flexible for the right candidate.

Experience: Relevant experience preferred; transferable experience across shop operations, inventory, logistics, purchasing, assembly, or quality is valued.

Career Description:

UVAD is making something fast. We are developing Canada’s first supersonic airplane since the Avro Arrow. To accelerate this development, UVAD is calling for highly driven and talented people to join our team.

The Shop Operations Associate is a broad, hands-on job opportunity supporting UVAD's development and production activities. Working across shop operations, inventory, purchasing, logistics, assembly, and quality-system processes, you will help ensure that parts, tools, and information are available when needed. This role is well suited to someone who takes pride in dependable execution, practical problem-solving, and contributing to a high-performing technical team..

You will coordinate materials and supplies from procurement through receiving, storage, internal movement, and delivery. This includes maintaining accurate inventory records, supporting supplier communication and purchasing activities, receiving incoming parts, and assisting with the movement of equipment and products between UVAD facilities, test locations, and customer sites. Your work will directly support efficient operations and help UVAD meet development, production, and customer commitments.

You will also contribute to the consistent delivery of high-quality products by following documented procedures, completing acceptance activities, supporting tool control and calibration records, and performing hands-on assembly from drawings and instructions. By maintaining a safe, organized, and effective shop environment, you will provide highly valued support across UVAD and help strengthen the systems that enable the company to grow.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain accurate inventory records, complete cycle counts, and identify low-stock, back-ordered, or obsolete items.
• Obtain supplier quotations, prepare purchase orders, and coordinate requirements with vendors, as well as UVAD engineering and production personnel.
• Receive incoming parts and materials, verify quantity and condition, and complete documented acceptance activities in support of the quality system.
• Identify, document, and report damaged, incorrect, or non-conforming parts and materials.
• Perform basic product assembly using hand tools, drawings, work instructions, and established procedures.
• Coordinate and support the movement of equipment, materials, and products between UVAD facilities, test locations, and customer sites.
• Maintain tool-control, certification, and calibration records.
• Provide clear and timely reporting on shop activities, production progress, inventory status, purchasing, and logistics.
• Maintain a clean, organized, efficient, and safe shop environment.
• Support other operational priorities based on varying business needs.

Qualifications:

• Relevant experience in a shop, warehouse, inventory, logistics, purchasing, assembly, quality, or similar operational environment is preferred. Candidates with experience in some areas and demonstrated familiarity with the others are encouraged to apply.
• Comfortable using basic hand tools and performing hands-on work.
• Able to safely lift and move typical shop materials and equipment.
• Able to follow drawings, written instructions, checklists, and established procedures.
• Proficient with basic computer applications, including Microsoft Excel and Word, and comfortable entering information in procurement or inventory systems.
• Able to communicate clearly and professionally with coworkers and suppliers.
• Willing to learn and apply themselves to purchasing, inventory, logistics, assembly, and quality-system procedures.
• Able to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Able to obtain and maintain a Government of Canada security clearance.

Compensation:

• Salary based on relevant experience and training.
• Group health benefits package and Health Spending Account (HSA).
• Optional participation in the RSP matching program.
• Eligibility to participate in the company stock option program.
• A minimum of three weeks of paid vacation.
• Additional paid time off, including four planned company-wide days off and a Christmas holiday shutdown.

About UVAD:

UVAD is completing development of the Falcon, a first-of-its-kind supersonic UAV. We have assembled a talented multidisciplinary team with real-world industry experience spanning aerodynamics, propulsion, mechanical systems, control systems, and embedded systems. Our technical leadership brings decades of cumulative experience developing advanced aerospace platforms. As a small, agile company in an emerging sector, UVAD offers broad and meaningful career opportunities with significant growth potential.