{"id":3219549,"url":"https://alion.io/job/arrowmfgoffroad-director-of-engineering","title":"Director of Engineering","company":{"id":2680862,"name":"Arrowmfgoffroad","domain":"arrowmfgoffroad.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/arrowmfgoffroad","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"UltiPro","truth_index":null},"role":"Leadership","role_family":"Leadership","seniority":"head","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Woodstock, Canada","Cambridge, Canada","Canada"],"countries":["CA"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":160000,"max":180000,"currency":"CAD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":128664},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"ASME NQA-1","optional":false},{"name":"AutoCAD","optional":false},{"name":"Microsoft Office","optional":false},{"name":"NRC Licensing","optional":false},{"name":"Outlook","optional":false},{"name":"SolidWorks","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-14T18:06:04Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-14","last_verified_at":"2026-10-28T09:01:46Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":13,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":13},"description":"Arrow Machine and Fabrication Group is an engineering-focused solution provider of machined castings, fabrications, and assemblies. We serve OEM customers across various industries, including rail, material handling, mining, defense, heavy truck, agriculture, power systems, construction, nuclear, engineered products, architecture, and forestry. We have access to the broadest range of metalwork solutions worldwide through our elite group of companies. Arrow focuses on providing innovative design, quality craftsmanship, and exceptional customer service.\nGroup Division:\nAt Arrow Engineered Products, we design and manufacture turnkey solutions for a wide range of customers with needs in nuclear, chemical mixing, heat exchanger, and autoclave systems, including fuel storage and various custom-designed pressure and non-pressure systems, all in compliance with ASME, PED, ULC, and API certified design criteria.\nCompensation Range: $160,000 up to $180,000 annually\nPosition Summary: Reporting to the VP/General Manager, the Director of Engineering leads engineering and quality across Cambridge North, Stratford, and Woodstock, with all engineering resources and the Quality Manager reporting directly to the role. As AEP's code authority, you will own our ASME and TSSA Certificates of Authorization for ASME Section III and VIII, CSA B51 and CSA N285/N299 work. You will protect Quality's independent stop-work authority, develop the team, and grow AEP into new markets. This is not a desk role: you will personally review critical designs, solve fabrication problems on the shop floor, and stand behind our product with customers and auditors. Must hold a P.Eng. license with Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO).\nPrimary Responsibilities:\nEngineering & Quality Leadership and Team Development\nLead the engineering and quality organization directly - Quality Manager, Project Supervisors, Mechanical Designers and Estimating - including hiring, performance management, development planning and succession.\nEstablish and enforce engineering standards, procedures, design templates and calculation methodologies across all facilities.\nReview and approve engineering deliverables and estimates, ensuring alignment with project scope, specification, quality and customer requirements.\nOwn the engineering and quality budget, resource plan and technology roadmap, including CAD, code calculation software, quality/document management systems and ERP integration.\nProvide regular reporting to the Vice President / General Manager on engineering and quality performance, capacity, certificate status, risk and capability development.\nCertificates of Authority & Quality Management System\nServe as the named accountable owner of AEP’s Certificates of Authority and quality programs, including ASME Certificates of Authorization (N / NPT / NS scope as held or pursued) and all associated registrations, ensuring they are maintained, renewed and extended in step with the business plan.\nOwn the Quality Assurance Manual and the quality management system as a whole, including the policies, procedures and program documents that AEP’s engineers design to and work under, and approve all revisions to them.\nDirect the Quality Manager in the execution of the quality program - internal and external audits, supplier qualification and surveillance, calibration, document and records control, training and qualification records, nonconformance and corrective action.\nEnsure the Quality Manager exercises independent authority to identify quality problems, stop work, place holds and control the disposition of nonconforming material, with a direct and unimpeded escalation route to the Vice President / General Manager where quality is placed in conflict with cost or schedule.\nMaintain, for every certificate held, a clear line of sight between the code and customer requirements, the engineering practices that satisfy them and the objective evidence that demonstrates compliance.\nServe as the accountable interface to the Authorized Nuclear Inspector (ANI) and Authorized Inspector (AI); the Quality Manager conducts the day-to-day interface, surveys, audits and inspection coordination under that accountability.\nLead preparation for, and closure of findings from, ASME triennial surveys and interim audits, Authorized Inspection Agency reviews, registrar audits and utility supplier qualification audits.\nEnsure that quality metrics, audit findings, customer complaints and nonconformance trends are reviewed at management level and drive corrective action in engineering practice, not only in documentation.\nCode Authority & Nuclear Quality Program\nServe as AEP’s senior technical authority for pressure-retaining and nuclear-class work, including design responsibility under ASME BPVC Section III, Division 1 (Subsections NCA, NB, NC, ND and NF as applicable) and Section VIII, Division 1.\nOwn and maintain the quality assurance program supporting AEP’s ASME Certificates of Authorization, including the requirements of Subsection NCA-3800 and ASME NQA-1, and ensure the organizational structure documented in the program reflects the independence and authority those requirements demand.\nMaintain compliance with CSA N285.0 for pressure-retaining systems and components in CANDU nuclear power plants, and with the CSA N299.1 / .2 / .3 / .4 quality assurance program requirements for the supply of items and services to nuclear power plants, including selection of the appropriate N299 level for a given scope of supply.\nOwn design registration and certification deliverables, including TSSA design registration and CRN submissions, design reports, code data reports and supporting document packages.\nMaintain currency with CSA B51, ASME B31.1 and ASME Sections II, V and IX as they apply to AEP scope, and ensure the quality program keeps pace with code revisions, addenda and customer specification changes.\nEstimating & Commercial Partnership\nHold final approval authority on estimates for custom machining and fabrication work, including code work where the compliance burden materially affects cost.\nEnsure estimates properly reflect the true cost of code compliance - quality documentation, NDE, PWHT, material traceability, third-party inspection and hold points.\nWork alongside Business Development in customer-facing technical and quality discussions, bid clarifications and scope negotiation, and contribute engineering insight to market and pricing strategy.\nConfirm, at the bid stage, that the scope under consideration is covered by AEP’s certificates and quality program, and identify early where new scope requires program extension, additional qualification or customer approval.\nEvaluate and qualify vendors and sub-tier suppliers, including the flow-down of nuclear procurement and quality assurance requirements, and the audit and surveillance of those suppliers.\nManufacturing Integration & Continuous Improvement\nEnsure designs are executable by AEP’s actual fabrication and machining capability; the Director must be equally credible on the weld side and the machining side of the business.\nPartner with Operations on weld procedure development and qualification (WPS / PQR), weld mapping, NDE planning and inspection and test plans, with the quality function owning the qualification records and objective evidence.\nDrive timely resolution of non-conformances, corrective actions and design changes without compromising code position.\nLead measurable improvement in engineering throughput, estimating accuracy, first-time-right documentation and quality escape reduction.\nPerforms other duties as necessary in support of the factory over all goals.\nComplies with requirements as outlined in the company handbook and OHSA.\nFollows and comply with all Operational Procedures and policies as outlined in the Employee Handbook, Quality and Environment programs (i.e. add in all your certifications)\nEducation, Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:\nBachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related discipline.\nLicensed Professional Engineer (P.Eng.), Ontario. Candidates licensed in another Canadian jurisdiction must be eligible for PEO licensure.\n12+ years in metal fabrication, machining and pressure equipment engineering, including 5+ years leading and developing engineering teams.\nDemonstrated design and/or fabrication responsibility under ASME BPVC Section III, Division 1 - Class 1, 2 and 3 components, and Subsection NF supports where applicable.\nDirect experience operating within an ASME nuclear Certificate of Authorization environment (N, NPT and/or NS), including participation in at least one ASME / AIA joint survey.\nDemonstrated accountability for a quality management system in a code-regulated environment - ownership of a Quality Assurance Manual, management of audits and corrective action, and experience leading or directly overseeing a quality function.\nWorking command of ASME Section VIII Division 1, CSA B51 and ASME B31.1, and of the Ontario design registration and CRN process through TSSA.\nApplied knowledge of CSA N285.0 and the CSA N299 series, with familiarity with ASME NQA-1 and 10 CFR 50 Appendix B principles, including the organizational independence provisions of NQA-1 Requirement 1 and NCA-3800.\nFamiliarity with ISO 9001 quality management principles and with auditing practice; lead auditor training an asset.\nSubstantive experience across both custom fabrication (welding, forming, rolling, heavy assembly) and precision machining - an essential requirement of this role.\nPressure boundary competence, including vessel and tank design, code classification, code class boundary determination, NDE selection, and material selection and traceability.\nEstimating capability for custom, low-volume, high-consequence work.\nExecutive presence and sound commercial judgement, with the confidence to hold a technical or quality position under commercial pressure.\nExcellent written and verbal communication, appropriate to customers, regulators, auditors and the shop floor alike.\nLeadership Attributes\nA developer of people, who measures success partly by the capability of those they leave behind.\nA collaborator by instinct, able to build trust across departments and across sites.\nApproachable and present - visible in the engineering office, in the quality function and on the manufacturing floor.\nCalm and decisive under schedule and commercial pressure.\nPersonally accountable, and candid in escalating issues early.\nProtective of the independence of the quality function, and visibly unwilling to trade code or quality position for short-term schedule or cost relief.\nAssets\nExperience leading an organization through the initial issue or scope expansion of an ASME nuclear certificate.\nExposure to SMR and new-build component work in addition to refurbishment and life-extension scope.\nExperience supporting diversification into industrial processing, energy, water and wastewater, hydrogen or advanced manufacturing markets.\nExperience with medical, defence or other regulated non-power nuclear applications.\nExperience consolidating engineering and quality functions under a single leadership structure.\nEquipment/ Tools/ Technology Used:\nSolidWorks and/or AutoCAD; Mastercam exposure an asset.\nPressure vessel design software (PV Elite, Compress or equivalent); FEA capability an asset.\nERP / MRP systems, document control and quality management systems.\nProficient in Microsoft Office software (Excel, Word, Outlook etc.).\nPhysical Demands:\nCombination of engineering office and active manufacturing floor; standing and walking for extended periods.\nPPE required: safety boots, safety glasses, hearing protection, gloves as required.\nTravel to customer sites, sub-supplier facilities and other AEP locations as required.\nAbility to work in a manufacturing environment, which may involve standing or walking for extended periods, exposure to loud noise, and working in various temperature conditions.\nOccasional lifting o...","description_format":"text","description_chars":13421,"description_truncated":true,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":5,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Company events"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Manufacturing","Nuclear Energy","Business Development"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-25T02:11:32Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":76,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.845,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":13,"expected_fill_days":28,"reasons":["conf:1","win:mid"],"computed_at":"2026-10-28T05:59:10Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":128664,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/arrowmfgoffroad-director-of-engineering","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/arrowmfgoffroad-director-of-engineering.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-28T12:45:26Z","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":17013,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-29T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"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":2680862},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=2680862"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Farrowmfgoffroad-director-of-engineering"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"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%2Farrowmfgoffroad-director-of-engineering"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"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%2Farrowmfgoffroad-director-of-engineering"},{"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/arrowmfgoffroad-director-of-engineering\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Farrowmfgoffroad-director-of-engineering"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3219549}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"arrowmfgoffroad.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3219549},"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); 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