Our Jobs of the Week column today features openings for a Quality Systems Manager at Protocase in Sydney and a Junior Project Manager at Dash Hudson in Halifax.
Established in 2001, Protocase makes custom electronic enclosures. It focuses on combining advances in software with advanced manufacturing techniques to offer unique custom manufacturing to the engineering, design, and research industries. The company has more than 175 employees and 12,000 clients.
Dash Hudson is a visual marketing Software-as-a-Service company that helps its clients increase engagement on their social media. Its software, called Vision, is a one-stop spot for clients to manage, source and engage with the traffic of their photos and videos.
The Job of the Week column features openings posted on the Entrevestor Job Board, which focuses on jobs in technology, innovation and startups in Atlantic Canada. The Entrevestor Job Board helps match job openings and candidates in the tech and startup communities and is operated by Entrevestor and Alongside.
Here are excerpts from the posting this week:
Sydney
Protocase
Protocase is currently seeking a Quality Systems Manager to join its team in Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. We are growing rapidly and continually improving our capabilities and procedures to ensure we are offering our customers the very best in custom manufacturing in terms of speed, simplicity, and service.
In 2017, Protocase officially became ISO 9001:2015 registered and AS9100D certified, after more than a decade of deploying its own ISO-like quality standards system. To uphold our quality standards and procedures, we need a Quality Systems Manager to oversee and lead all aspects of maintaining our quality standards and certifications that we have achieved.
To thrive in this position, you must never lose sight of our goal to consistently make exactly what our customers require. The key to your ongoing success will be your ability to continually sort through data and details in a high-paced environment, and yet take a big-picture view to spot trends and deficiencies without getting too lost in the details. You must then come up with effective plans to fix deficiencies systemically and execute those plans.
Responsibilities
As Quality Systems Manager, your core duties will include:
Making sure that our operations run smoothly and in compliance with all of the requirements of the AS9100D and ISO 9001:2015 standards
Working with Process Owners to monitor and control QMS Key Performance Indicators
Keeping an eye on emerging quality trends
Making plans to fix quality issues systemically
Executing plans to fix quality issues systemically
Above all else, you need to be proactive and communicative with all departments within the company to successfully maintain Protocase’s quality standards, as they are essential to our continued growth.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree preferred (Engineering, Business or a related field)
Experience working within a manufacturing environment will be considered an asset
Experience supervising others
Ability to identify patterns in data which you can then use to develop procedures, implement action plans, and manage the execution of plans
Ability to see and solve problems from both a high-level and low-level perspective (a “big-picture” thinker who isn’t afraid to get dig into details from time to time)
High levels of energy and enthusiasm with common sense to match . . .
Read the full job posting here.
Halifax
Dash Hudson
Dash Hudson works with the raddest, most discerning brands (Apple, Kylie Cosmetics, Revolve, Estée Lauder) and publishers (Condé Nast) in the world to drive visual performance across all of their marketing channels. Our visual intelligence platform provides brands with a one-stop solution to create, source, measure, and enhance the engagement of their photos and videos.
As a Junior Project Manager, you will work with our incredible dev team to manage the delivery of products used by some of the best companies in the world.
In case you were wondering, here's a little bit more about our team and products:
We're a diverse team from around the world.
We have a very productive engineering team based in Halifax. We build beautiful, functional products that customers love.
Our marketing platform is best-in-class competing with the biggest companies in the marketing software industry.
We have a big vision for the future of visual intelligence. We want you to be part of it.
Our development methodology is a hybrid of Kanban and Scrum.
Responsibilities
You will be collaborating closely with our Product and Engineering teams in managing the delivery of features in a SaaS/cloud platform environment.
Are you a detailed-oriented person who enjoys problem-solving?
Are you passionate about project delivery and collaboration?
Responsibilities:
Working with Product Manager with maintaining the product backlog
Scoping technical tasks based on business requirements for the new features
Working with teams to obtain estimates on the features timelines
Making sure that dev team delivers successful projects and products that are on-time, on-budget, and high quality every time
Working with teams to ensure that Scrum meetings are happening
Coaching Scrum Masters on Kanban and Scrum best practices
Reporting on project status - Updating CTO and product manager on timelines and progress
Performing Risk Management - identify, evaluate and mitigate project risks
Assisting in team development while holding teams accountable for their commitments, removing impediments and roadblocks to their work; leveraging organizational resources to improve capacity for project work; and mentoring and developing team members
Suggesting and helping to implement process improvements
Assisting with the development of IT policies and ensuring compliance
Assisting in the collection of metrics
Qualifications
Required Qualifications & Experience:
Post-Secondary Education (or equivalent experience) in a discipline such as Business Administration, Computer Science, Information Technology Systems
Strong critical thinking, analytical and problem-solving skills
Significant attention to detail
Strong writing and communication skills
Great adaptability to change and flexibility in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
Strong drive for action, results-oriented
Outstanding organizational skills, including multitasking and time-management
Ability to handle multiple projects, deal with changing priorities and ambiguity
Team player, supportive of a collaborative team environment and culture
Desired Qualifications & Experience
Proven work experience as a Project Coordinator or similar role
Experience with Agile software development methodology
Any Project Management Institute (PMI) certification
Any Scrum Master certification
Hands-on experience with project management tools like Clubhouse or JIRA
Experience with creating and ensuring compliance with IT policies or at least familiarity with industry-standard IT policies
Familiarity with industry-standard IT metrics . . .
Read the full job posting here.
