Director, Airworthiness

The Director, Airworthiness is responsible for implementing, operating, and maintaining the Airworthiness Control System (ACS), the Design Approval Organization (DAO) and SMS (Safety Management System) within the Engineering function. 

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership 

• Lead the day-to-day operations of the De Havilland Aircraft of Canada Design Approval Organization (DAO) on behalf of the Head of the DAO, ensuring sufficient DAD coverage, and up to date DAO practices and procedures. 
• Lead the Transport Canada certification and foreign validation activities for all new and changed De Havilland Canada Type Designs, including Supplemental Type Designs.
• Lead the De Havilland Canada Continuing Airworthiness processes.
• Support the regulatory activities associated with aircraft delivery, operation, and training.
• Lead all regulatory interface with Transport Canada on matters of design approval, continuing airworthiness, DAO performance and SMS for Design.
• Lead Regulatory Affairs for Engineering, ensuring new rulemaking is reviewed, and overseeing Airworthiness involvement in industry and government working groups and committees.
• Ensure Safety Risk Management, Safety Assurance and Safety Promotion activities are being executed in line with the SMS framework.
• Conduct effective oversight/audit of the ACS, DAO and SMS for design.
• Develop a strategic roadmap for the increasing maturity of SMS within Engineering.
• Ensure De Havilland continues to fulfill all responsibilities as a Type Certificate Holder. 

Technical Competency 

• Validates technical processes to meet Best Practice. 
• Enforce adherence to De Havilland Engineering System practices and Knowledge Standards to promote product line integrity and consistency. 
• Research technical developments in the industry to remain aware of innovations that may affect and improve current design approval and safety system performance.
• Share Industry and Regulatory Developments at company level.
• Provide Regulatory guidance to Programs.
• Works with the Safety team to execute A/C Level Safety, Reliability and Security processes. 
• Multi-disciplinary alignment for Certification Programs, Triage, Corrective Action Review Board (CARB) and Aircraft on Ground (AOG) issues when necessary.
• Impacts other Functional Units strategic directions/vision.
• Proposes new work processes and/or technical innovations.
• Initiative and judgement recognizing implications of experimental results on other problems.
• Devises new approaches applying existing criteria in novel ways to improve efficiency.
• Participates in deep-dive and provides specialized advice for solving broad technical problems, utilizing the Problem-Solving Methodology.
• Functions as a final technical authority/advisor.
• Provides technical leadership, coaching, mentoring and training to teams of professionals and technologists. 

Qualifications 

• Bachelor or master’s degree in engineering. 
• 15 years or more of relevant experience in a specific aerospace engineering field
• Basic understanding of the regulatory framework within which Transport Canada, FAA and EASA operate. 
• Knowledge of the type certification process, the corrective action process, and the procedures of the Design Approval Organization 
• You are Knowledgeable of SMS related regulations and international standards.
• You have mastered risk management principles and tools. 
• Posses advanced knowledge in a specific field and a breadth of knowledge of many management systems. 
• You may perform as a regulatory authority delegate in the field of expertise.