Job Title: Intermediate Requirements Engineer
Pay Rate: $57.15/hour as T4
Contract Duration: 12 months with a possibility of extension or conversion to permanent
Requirement: MUST have NATO Secret Clearance to start
Location: Ottawa (preferred) but also open for candidate in Halifax or Victoria
Work model: This role is Hybrid, 3 days in office, 2 days work from home. (any day)
Position Summary
We as the Defence & Security supports the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) through its In‑Service Support (ISS) programs. Through the Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ships & Joint Support Ships (AOPS & JSS) In‑Service Support (AJISS) and the Minor Warships & Auxiliary Vessels (MWAV) programs, we provide support to over 70% of the RCN fleet. We are leveraging cutting‑edge solutions to deliver preventive and corrective maintenance, Integrated Logistics Support (ILS), Program Management, Engineering, Life‑Cycle Material Management (LCMM), and new capability insertion across multiple naval platforms.
The Requirements Management team is central to AJISS program success, ensuring that all contractual, technical, and regulatory requirements are systematically captured, traced, verified, and controlled throughout the vessel support lifecycle. We are building a dedicated team to establish enterprise-wide requirements visibility, support performance incentive achievement (SRVF), and maintain audit-ready compliance documentation.
You will join the Requirements Management team located at our facility in Canada, collaborating with stakeholders within the Government of Canada and the Department of National Defence (DND), as well as engineering and integrated project teams, to deliver mission-critical requirements management capabilities. In this role, you will gain hands‑on experience on large‑scale naval programs while helping shape requirements that directly impact fleet readiness and operational capability.
Essential Functions / Key Areas of Responsibility
Requirements Engineers strive to understand the end-user’s needs, limitations, and concept of employment for the system and ensure that they are accurately captured, analyzed, documented, and maintained throughout the system lifecycle. At the intermediate level, the Requirements Engineer applies established processes and tools to deliver high‑quality requirements while collaborating closely with engineers, stakeholders, and subject matter experts. The role is critical to ensuring systems are fit for purpose and not merely technically compliant.
Key responsibilities include:
- Elicit, analyze, and document system, subsystem, and interface requirements.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure requirements and related work products reflect agreed operational needs, constraints, and stakeholder concerns.
- Ensure requirements are unambiguous, feasible, testable, and verifiable.
- Develop and maintain requirements specifications and related artefacts within a requirement management tool.
- Ensure bidirectional traceability between requirements and architecture, design, verification, and validation artefacts.
- Perform and review requirements decomposition, including coverage and gap analysis.
- Plan and participate in requirements reviews, walkthroughs, and sign‑off activities with engineering and customer representatives.
- Review proposed requirement changes and associated impact analysis, and support requirements change and baseline management activities in accordance with configuration management processes.
- Support requirements baseline management and change activities, including impact analysis and configuration control.
- Assist subject matter experts in producing high-quality, detailed requirements and related engineering artefacts.
Typical assignments may include managing requirements for a defined capability area, supporting audits or compliance reviews through traceability evidence, and coordinating requirements updates.
Chorus Role(s)
6.1 DDQ - Design, Develop and Qualify the Solution
OBJECTIVE: To provide products and customer solutions in consistency with all stakeholders’ needs and entity policies, as well as continuously enhance engineering competitiveness.
Minimum Requirements: Skills, Experience, Education, Technical/Specialized Knowledge, Certifications, Language
Skills:
· Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
· Ability to work effectively in cross‑functional and multidisciplinary teams.
· Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
· Ability to manage multiple priorities within a structured engineering environment.
Experience:
· At least 5 years of professional experience in the design and integration of complex systems in commercial and/or military domains.
· At least 3 years of professional experience with a primary focus on requirement engineering activities.
Education:
· University or college degree in engineering or related discipline.
Language:
· Ability to communicate effectively in English, both written and oral.
· Bilingualism (English/French) is considered an asset.
Security Requirements:
· Ability to obtain and maintain security clearances as required under applicable regulatory and contractual obligations.
Preferred Qualifications
In addition to the minimum professional experience specified above, experience in any of the following areas would be considered an asset:
· Experience with requirements management tools such as DOORS and/or Polarion;
· Familiarity with DXL scripting.
· Exposure to scripting and integration technologies used in requirements and engineering toolchains such as REST APIs, XML/ReqIF exchange formats, Python, or database queries.
· Experience supporting in-service naval platforms or other complex, mission-critical systems.
· Eligible to obtain Professional Engineering designation (P. Eng) in Canada.
Physical Demands
Standard office work.
Special Position Requirements
Full time, standard business hours. Possibility of travel to east or west coast sites for technical support / installation / inspection onboard ships in dock.
Pay: $57.15 per hour
Application question(s):
- Do you have Valid Federal Secret Clearance?
Experience:
- Design/integration of complex commercial & military systems: 5 years (required)
- Professional experience focused on requirements engineering: 3 years (required)
Work Location: In person
