Product Architect - School Bus

Job Description

The product architect articulates the strategy and technical definition of the product in line with the development plan and strategy for the platforms for which he will be responsible.

Main responsibilities

• Ensure integrity of all systems as well as the results of their combination;
• Be responsible for the various systems’ harmony in order to maximise their efficiency;
• Provide technical definitions and specifications of projects;
• Ensure consistency throughout product portfolio, commercial offer’s technical response as well as planned and current projects’ development sequencing;
• Guide research and development as well as engineering teams;
• Actively support technical sectors while ensuring product durability;
• Work in collaboration with Sales and Quotes departments;
• Provide clear and adapted solutions to clients throughout the bidding and contract process. Support clients by offering best configuration of products;
• Approve global configuration of offered products and ensure they comply with requested key characteristics and requirements;
• Endorse requirement specifications of internal and external clients;
• Prescribe passage of gates when required;
• Provide feasibility assessment for improvement projects while ensuring key characteristics of requirements are understood when dispatching requests;
• Ensure standardized technological choices and component selection across platforms in order to optimize manufacturing costs;
• Monitor applicable laws and regulations’ evolution and align specifications accordingly.

Knowledge

• Technical knowledge of heavy vehicles;
• Ability to work efficiently in English or French.

Skills: 

• Ability to work in a team;
• Ability to communicate effectively in different situations;
• Ability to manage numerous projects simultaneously;
• Ability to work under pressure in an innovative context;
• Intention to move to in the Montreal, Canada area.

Aptitudes and attitudes

• Thorough and meticulous;
• High organization skills;
• Autonomous and proactive;
• Document efficiently.

Education and experience

• Bachelor degree in engineering (mechanical or electrical) or the equivalent;
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in the manufacturing industry;
• Experience in product architecture in the trucking or transportation industry.