Engineering Administrator

Job Title: Engineering Administrator

Location: Halifax, NS

Salary: We offer a competitive salary, plus a comprehensive benefits package.

What you’ll be doing:

• Act as a key communication point between internal teams, external stakeholders, and clients, ensuring smooth and professional interactions across all levels
• Compile, draft, and review data and reports for project managers and engineers, including but not limited to: monthly reports, meeting minutes, and team deliverables, to support project success
• Anticipate team needs and proactively offer support, suggesting improvements to enhance team efficiency and task execution
• Manage multiple tasks simultaneously, prioritizing based on urgency and importance to ensure timely and accurate completion
• Assist in maintaining the technical integrity of work packages, ensuring clear and accurate communication with both internal and external stakeholders

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook) with a solid understanding of each program’s capabilities
• Minimum of 3-5 years of administrative experience, demonstrating a proven history of efficiency and attention to detail
• Highly self-motivated with the ability to work independently and manage tasks with minimal supervision

Desirable:

• Experience with a project reporting toolset (e.g. Windchill and Tableau)
• Previous experience assisting in quality audits across multiple teams

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including a generous annual leave allowance and paid sick leave. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible and hybrid working, group health, dental, and vision benefits as well as life insurance – you may also be eligible for an annual bonus.

In addition, you will also be entitled to a Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) company match of up to 5% of your annual salary.

The River Class Destroyer Project Delivery team:

The BAE Systems Canada Inc. Naval ships Engineering team is part of The RCD (River Class Destroyer) project. The project is part of Canada’s National Shipbuilding Strategy. The RCD project is the largest and most complex shipbuilding initiative in Canada since World War II. The project will help revitalize the Canadian shipbuilding industry, sustaining and creating thousands of high-skill jobs and enabling Canada to support the ships domestically when in service.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.

Closing Date: February 6th, 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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