Experience Exciting Projects with a Career at Babcock
 
Babcock Canada provides critical and complex support to strategically important assets, infrastructure and training programs primarily in the defence and security environments.
 
We are a Canadian ISO 9001, 14001 and OHSAS 18001 registered company employing approximately 380 personnel at locations in Halifax, Ottawa, and Victoria. We are trusted to deliver a wide range of services including Program Management, Materiel and Logistic Support, Systems Engineering, Configuration Management and Records Support, Maintenance and Refits, and Information and Knowledge Management.  For more information on Babcock Canada please visit www.babcockcanada.com/careers
 
Within the wider Group, Babcock's aviation sector delivers critical and vital services in 14 countries around the world. Through our proven experience and unwavering focus on safe and efficient delivery, we are a trusted name in a complex world. Everyday lives, livelihoods, safety and security depend on the operations we fly and enable. We operate in the emergency services, military air, and oil and gas sectors providing lifesaving search and rescue flights, emergency environmental operations, integrated military engineering, training and facilities services, and critical crew change services in the North Sea.
 
Babcock Military Air, one of the world's leading providers of military flying training, is further expanding its operations, and is now building a team capable of pursuing emerging strategic opportunities. We are seeking to recruit an IT Solutions Manager, based in our Ottawa, ON office. This is a full time, fixed term contract with an initial period of 12 months and will report to the Solution Architect.
 
 
The principal tasks and responsibilities include:
 

• Oversees/manages one or more IT technology projects and/or collection of smaller projects (program) at the department and occasionally corporate level.
• Designs and implements project/program coordination and tracking methodologies across several project efforts.
• Partners with IT leadership and Group stakeholders to identify needs and evaluate alternative business solutions.
• Works with IT Managers to select and evaluate personnel for/on the project team(s) to ensure the effective and efficient operation of the project, but does not directly manage resources.
• Effectively and efficiently communicates, and sometimes presents, project status and issues to IT Management, stakeholders and constituent management.
• Understanding of system architecture and designing of solutions.
• Demonstrates capacity to manage change resistance and break down barriers to effective improvement and transformation.
   
  

Job qualifications and requirements include:
 

• Eligible for a Canadian Secret Security clearance
• A minimum of 5 years of related experience managing IT projects and/or IT Management experience, including all management aspects
• Require scheduling and moderately complex budgeting experience including tracking actuals against budget, estimate to complete (ETC) and estimate at complete (EAC)
• Strong organizational, presentation, and customer service skills.
• Professional experience with a good understanding of project management; resolving a wide range of issues in creative ways.
• Experience complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Engineer, a related field, or equivalent
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How to apply:
 
Please submit your cover letter and resume through our LinkedIn posting or through our website at www.babcockcanada.com .  Babcock Canada internal applicants, please apply directly to the HR Inbox.  Note for Babcock Canada internal applicants, please discuss with your manager prior to submitting your application.
Your application must clearly demonstrate how you meet the requirements.
We thank all those who apply. Only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.
If you have a disability which requires an accommodation during any stage of our recruitment process, please let us know how we can assist you.