General Dynamics Mission Systems Canada - Ottawa (Bells Corners) is seeking a Manager, Reliability, Maintainability, Testability & Safety (RMT&S) to lead a team of approximately six engineering professionals responsible for delivering system safety and RMT&S engineering services across all engineering programs and product lines within the Business Area. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Engineering Support Services, the incumbent serves as the organization's designated Safety Authority and is accountable for building and sustaining a high performing team, developing discipline capability, and ensuring consistent application of safety, reliability, maintainability and trainability engineering practices across the enterprise. The successful candidate will balance resource planning, employee development, technical oversight, safety governance, proposal support, and hands-on engineering contributions. The Manager will champion a proactive, data driven safety culture and ensure that safety, reliability and maintainability considerations are embedded throughout all lifecycle phases, from concept development through production, sustainment and disposal. More about this position can be found on General Dynamics Mission Systems - Canada's website under Careers or at this link.
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SRE - Montreal Chapter is planning a RAMS event for Montreal (October 2nd).
Purpose: To strengthen the RAMS community in Montreal by connecting Concordia, industry, professional societies, students, young engineers, and international experts. To position Concordia as a recognized academic hub for RAMS, strengthening the association between the university and reliability, availability, maintainability, and safety + asset management & AI.
Publicly relaunch and revitalize the SRE (society of reliability engineers) Montreal Chapter, with future technical, educational, and professional activities offering real value to members.
Host international guests from the RAMS Symposium leadership community:
Vasiliy Krivtsov, Director of Reliability Analytics at Ford
Julio Pulido, President of the Society of Reliability Engineers and senior RAMS leader
Melvin R. Downes, retired former Chief of Staff and General Chair of RAMS 2023
Other guests to be added
Host local guests (currently):
Dominique Roy, Vice-President, AtkinsRéalis
Dragan Komljenovic, Senior Research Scientist, Hydro-Québec Research Institute—IREQ Program
Other guests to be added
A Technical presentation from Hydro-Québec and AtkinsRéalis
Short presentations from Concordia, CIADI, and SREi
A Concordia RAMS alumni segment highlighting successful graduates and their companies with participation by senior industry representatives
A Student RAMS Challenge
Two or three student teams will solve a reliability problem over four to five hours under controlled conditions.
Controlled professional AI tools may be used.
The teams will present their solutions to the audience, which will select the winner.
The prize could be financial or, preferably, a paid internship offered by a participating company.
Organization and possible contributions
The RAMS event has some level of catering including coffee breaks at approximately 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., plus lunch boxes.
A private industry dinner with the international guests and selected industry leaders.
Please join Dr. Jason Rupe, the current RS President, and RS Boston Chapter Chair, Dr Daniel Weidman, for updates on activities in the IEEE RS and the Boston chapter, along with discussions about how the society can support chapters and members. We plan to present some brief updates from both, then turn it over to questions and ideas from you. The second of such townhalls this year, the Boston chapter has volunteered to host this event with the society, so their questions and ideas will be live. If you are able to attend this meeting remotely live, you will have a chance to submit questions and ideas via chat. The meeting will also be recorded, so you can catch up after if you like. Hopefully some ideas will resonate and maybe you find something you would like to contribute too. We look forward to your engagement in this event!
When: Thursday, November 13, 2025 Virtual Reliability Society Townhall - Boston
Thursday, November 13, 2025 3:00 PM | (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) | 1 hr 30 mins
Meeting number: | 2545 136 5467 |
Meeting password: | mJEkej2JE33 |