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You will play a key role in researching and recommending engineering changes to enhance efficiency, quality, and compliance. Additionally, you will collaborate closely with Suppliers, Production, Quality, Procurement, and other internal teams to address technical challenges and optimize manufacturing workflows. Your expertise will directly support seamless operations and continuous improvement across the production environment.\nThis position would be located at our Calgary, Alberta or Victoria, British Columbia offices.\nDirect Accountabilities\nCreate and revise Product Structures/Routings and Work Instructions (WI) to define parts, processes, sequence and special instruction required to purchase or build a part/assembly.\nDefine the condition of supply of detail parts and assemblies, create and revise Condition of Supply Documents.\nCreate Assembly Manuals to define assembly requirements and special instructions for structural, system and electrical installations and assemblies on the aircraft.\nDefine the tools required for manufacturing or assembly of aircraft components.\nCreate and revise supplemental planning documentation to fully define the build sequence of the aircraft assembly and sub-assemblies.\nRecord and submit Change requests for changes to build, design and tools required to improve efficiency and quality of builds including Make vs Buy decisions.\nInvestigate root cause of manufacturing problems and liaise with other functions to analyze potential solutions by evaluating cost, impacts and risks of a change in production.\nParticipate in continuous improvement initiatives including internal/external audits.\nAssist Supply Chain and Suppliers to work through technical challenges in manufacturing.\nAssist Planning in execution of Non-Conformance Management Tasks (i.e... Work order instructions).\nAssist Area Managers in developing plans to increase efficiency including acquisition and implementation of new equipment.\nAssist in developing and rolling out technical skills training for manufacturing and assembly personnel to support the QMS.\nAssist training of Production, QC and Methods Engineering and co-op personnel.\nEducation Required\nDegree or diploma in Engineering or Engineering Technology.\nExperience, skills, and attitude \nRequired\n5+ years of progressive hands-on experience in a large component manufacturing environment, preferably in the aerospace industry.\nPrevious experience in a Manufacturing Engineering, planning or Methods role.\nKnowledge of the fabrication and assembly of aircraft parts.\nWorking knowledge of cost accounting and cost estimating.\nKnowledge of Aerospace engineering and manufacturing principles and techniques.\nAbility to apply sound engineering principles to operational and process design issues.\nAbility to read and interpret aircraft engineering drawings.\nAdvanced knowledge in MS Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).\nFamiliar with computer aided design software such as CATIA, Envoia, etc.\nFamiliar with one or more Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software systems.\nAbility to manage and act on multiple projects and priorities at one time.\nInnovative thinking and have a good decision-making process.\nStrong customer focus and good interpersonal skills.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3482,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Aircraft Manufacturing"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-01T20:52:05Z"}],"liveness":{"score":73,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.809,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":10,"expected_fill_days":30,"reasons":["conf:8","win:mid"],"computed_at":"2026-10-02T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/westerkirk-methods-engineer-technologist","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/westerkirk-methods-engineer-technologist.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-03T01:22:04Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1311,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":3689,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-04T00:00:00Z"}}}