# Chief, Flight Test

Department: Transport Canada Reference number: MOT26J-131495-000181 Selection process number: 26-MOT-EA-HRS-05512 Location: Various locations Salary: $171,400 to $196,143 Level: AO-ETP-02 Who can apply: Persons residing in Canada, and Canadian citizens and Permanent residents abroad. Closing date: 14 January 2027 About the position DutiesAs Chief of the Flight Test Division in Transport Canada’s Aircraft Certification Branch: • You will be leading a team of engineering test pilots, flight test engineers and other aeronautical engineering experts to carry out the Division’s mandate. • You will direct the planning and coordination of all flight test activities undertaken in support of all aeronautical product design approvals requiring flight test support or oversight, and on occasion act as an operational test pilot to supplement or complement staff pilots. • You will provide strategic and operational advice and formulate recommendations related to Flight Test to senior management, industry and foreign civil aviation authorities. • You will provide strategic and operational engineering flight test advice and direction on the application of regulations, standards, policies and proce

- **Id**: 3739899
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/tc-chief-flight-test>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: head
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Canada
- **Countries**: CA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T11:19:56Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-04T11:19:56Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 10471
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 1049297
- **Name**: Transport Canada
- **Domain**: tc.gc.ca
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/tc-gc-ca>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Salary

- **Min**: 171400
- **Max**: 196143
- **Currency**: CAD
- **Period**: year
- **Gross**: yes
- **Usd annual**: 140157

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

## Hiring locations

- **Canada** — Iso: CA; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T11:19:56Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: seen:2, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 140157
- **Is top pay**: no

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