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Let your career take flight by joining our diverse and vibrant team at the leading edge of passenger aviation.\nAir Canada Maintenance is seeking an enthusiastic, highly skilled individual to join our Tooling & Aircraft Servicing Equipment (ASE) Team. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Technical Operations Tooling, the Engineering Specialist (Tooling) enjoys a broad scope of responsibility and works closely with the Senior Manager, Technical Operations Tooling, Aircraft Servicing Equipment (ASE) department, aircraft tooling manufacturers, and suppliers to ensure Tooling is maintained to the highest standards, ready to support aircraft maintenance activities.\nThe qualified incumbent will be responsible for providing technical solutions and serve as the primary interface between Tooling Department and other business functions across network within ACM. The incumbent will be responsible for managing reliability and modification, configuration management, cost control, and process improvement related to tooling.\nAdditionally, the candidate will lead and execute Continuous Improvement initiatives and projects to modernize, optimize, and enhance tooling management.\nThis engineering job includes direct support to operations, therefore travel and flexible work schedules required.\nResponsibilities:\nReview and identify Tooling and Equipment requirements specified in AMM and task cards for various aircraft types within our fleet. \nManage tooling configuration and maintenance specifications in TRAX ensuring compliance with Transport Canada regulations and OEM standards. \nDevelop Task Cards for tooling repair, maintenance, and inspection requirements IAW manufacturer, industry, or ACM standards. \nReview and troubleshoot tooling/equipment issues and specify modification scheme for in-house or external suppliers.\nManage and maintain Tool data and configuration setup in TRAX for items within tooling category for ACM network. \nLiaise with internal customers and OEMs and Vendors/Suppliers for all technical aspects related to tooling. \nManage and monitor Technical Bulletins issued by Aircraft or Tooling manufacturer ensuring compliance with Transport Canada and other regulatory body.\nReview, develop and present business cases for the implementation of tooling safety, reliability improvements.\nConduct engineering analysis on Tooling/Equipment damages and direct repair and maintenance schemes to return the asset in serviceable state.\nSupport Safety Investigations for tooling related issues. \nMaintain knowledge of Canada Occupational Health and Safety and Transport Canada regulations affecting area of expertise.\nProvide technical and troubleshooting guidance to maintenance personnel.\nLead and manage projects with 6-18 months duration and approximant budget of $250K - 1.5M budget. \nCoordinate and prepare Tooling and Equipment requirements for new or additional aircrafts’ Entry into Service. \nDevelop and manage Equipment Life Cycle Management process with emphasize on maintenance and end of life decommissioning.\nQualifications\nBachelor’s degree in aerospace / mechanical engineering recognized by a Canadian university or provincial engineering association.\nMinimum of 3 years’ experience in manufacturing environment, Aerospace or Aviation industry preferred. \nAbility to analyze and interpret technical documentation including process specifications and Aircraft Maintenance Manuals (AMM). \nExperience using CAD software such as Autodesk Inventor, CATIA V5, SolidWorks. \nAble to conduct basic stress analysis and have good understanding of materials and processing. \nProject Management experience is an asset. Experience working with ERP systems.\nKnowledge of configuration management is an asset.\nCandidates must be members of, or able to qualify for admission to, a provincial engineering professional association.\nStrong analytical and problem-solving skills along with ability to work with cross-functional teams in highly time-sensitive and fast-paced environment. \nStrong organizational, interpersonal and communication skills, able to prepare professional technical documentation, information sheets, reports, and engineering drawings.\nMust be able to work independently, multi-task, work under pressure and accommodate changing priorities.\nWillingness to be on call and to work flexible hours at and away from home base, as required by day-to-day operational needs.\nAvailability to travel for training, industry meetings, operational/modification support, etc.\nMust be clear of any restrictions which will prevent entry into other countries, and any restrictions that may deny access to OEM data.\nFamiliarity with OSHA, Canada Occupational Health and Safety and Transport Canada regulations is an asset.\nConditions of Employment:\nCandidates must be eligible to work in the country of interest at the time any offer of employment is made and are responsible for obtaining any required work permits, visas, or other authorizations necessary for employment. Prior to their start date, candidates will also need to provide proof of their eligibility to work in the country of interest.\nLinguistic Requirements\nBased on equal qualifications, preference will be given to bilingual candidates.\nDiversity and Inclusion\nAir Canada is strongly committed to Diversity and Inclusion and aims to create a healthy, accessible and rewarding work environment which highlights employees’ unique contributions to our company’s success.\nAs an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applications from all to help us build a diverse workforce which reflects the diversity of our customers, and communities, in which we live and serve.\nAir Canada thanks all candidates for their interest; however only those selected to continue in the process will be contacted.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5903,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":3,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Flexible schedule"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Air Transport","Commercial Aviation"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-12T12:20:18Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"CA","licensed_sponsor":true,"adverts_offering_sponsorship_24m":0,"sanctioned_now":false,"evidence":"Positions approved through LMIA in 12 months: 1","filings_12m":1,"filings_prev_12m":2,"green_card_filings_12m":null,"median_offered_wage_usd":null,"route":"Global Talent Stream","cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-11-12T07:36:15+00:00","sources":["ESDC: employers issued a positive LMIA"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":7,"reasons":["conf:2","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-12T15:08:55Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":175549,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/air-canada-engineer-tooling","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/air-canada-engineer-tooling.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-12T15:08:55Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":31631,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-13T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":52029},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=52029"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fair-canada-engineer-tooling"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fair-canada-engineer-tooling"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fair-canada-engineer-tooling"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/air-canada-engineer-tooling\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fair-canada-engineer-tooling"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":4160592}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"aircanada.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":4160592},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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