Engineering Managers
Job description
These individuals plan, direct, and evaluate the activities of engineering companies.
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
Main tasks
- Develop policies, standards, and guidelines for the execution of engineering work.
- Draw up descriptive estimates.
- Explain proposals to clients.
- Present research reports and engineering findings.
- Coordinate the technical work of the service or study groups.
- Recruit, manage, and ensure the professional development of staff in appropriate fields.
- Participate in the design, development, and inspection of projects.
Advancement and mobility
- Experience leads to other technical management, research, or senior management positions.
Hourly wage
The hourly wage is calculated by averaging wages from 2022 to 2024.- Minimum
- $41.21
- Median
- $65.38
- Maximum
- $103.37
Job prospects for 2024-2028
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Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects
All of Québec
Very good
All of Québec
Non available
Total jobs for 2023
All of Québec
7,000
All of Québec
na
Gender distribution
All of Québec
Not available.
- 19.4% Female
- 80.6% Male
Not available.
- 19.4% Female
- 80.6% Male
Job types
All of Québec
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2020
All of Québec
$118,000
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
- Non traditional for women
- None
All of Québec
- Non traditional for women
- None
Sectors of activity
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 5413, 541427% of jobs
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NAICS 33648% of jobs
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NAICS 334, 3357% of jobs
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NAICS 5416, 54175% of jobs
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NAICS 915% of jobs
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Others48% of jobs
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 5413, 541427% of jobs
-
NAICS 33648% of jobs
-
NAICS 334, 3357% of jobs
-
NAICS 5416, 54175% of jobs
-
NAICS 915% of jobs
-
Others48% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
Numerous training and study programs lead to managerial or executive positions.
Also required
- Extensive engineering experience, including supervisory experience.
Sometimes required
- A Bachelor’s degree in Engineering is usually required.
- Membership in the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec (OIQ [Quebec Order of Engineers]) may be required.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Reading comprehension
- Critical thought
- Active listening
- Information processing
- Coordination
- Oral expression
- Time management
- Judgment and decision-making
- Solving complex problems
- Result evaluation
- Written expression
- Mathematics
- Active learning
- Social perception
- Human resource management
- Negotiation
- Persuasion
- System analysis
- Teaching
- Systems evaluation
- Learning strategies
- Financial resource management
- Material resource management
- Service oriented
Abilities
- Written comprehension
- Oral comprehension
- Verbal skills
- Awareness of issues
- Deductive reasoning
- Inductive reasoning
- Written expression
- Speech clarity
- Idea generation
- Information organization
- Mathematical reasoning
- Originality
- Speech recognition
- Near vision
- Visualization
- Classification
- Distance vision
- Selective attention
- Basic numeracy
- Information processing speed
- Processing flexibility
Knowledge and attributes
- Capacity to establish and maintain interpersonal relations
- Leadership
- Focussed on results
- Knowledge of administration and management
- Autonomy
- Spoken and written bilingualism (French and English)
- Capacity to work in a team
- Strategic sense
- Rigour
- Knowledge of engineering and technology
Interests
- Direct, organize, and manage
- Work with numbers
- Work in an office
- Create, design
- Carry out research
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Enterprising
- People with this profile prefer having responsibilities, influencing others and responding to challenges.
- Investigative
- People with this profile prefer relying on theoretical knowledge before acting. They like observation, analysis and problem solving.
- Realistic
- People with this profile prefer carrying out concrete tasks and being physically involved in what they do.
Official name of the NOC 20010
Engineering managers
Job titles
- Director of engineering
- Production engineering manager
- Director of quality assurance engineering
- Quality control engineering manager
- Engineering delivery chief
- Test engineering manager - engineering
- Director of engineering - manufacturing
- Director of engineering research and development
- Electrical engineering manager
- Traffic engineering service manager - telecommunications
- Telecommunications engineering service manager
- Aerospace engineering manager
- Civil engineering manager
- Automation engineering manager
- Computer hardware engineering manager
- Structural engineering manager
- Director of quality control engineering
- Director of safety engineering
- Engineering and maintenance manager
- Geotechnical engineering manager
- Industrial engineering manager
- Director of mechanical engineering
- Marine engineering manager
- Mining engineering manager
- Engineering manager - manufacturing
- Mechanical engineering manager
- Engineering superintendent
Skill type
Natural and applied sciences and related occupations
Related occupations
- Aerospace engineers
- Architecture and science managers
- Chemical engineers
- Civil engineers
- Computer and information systems managers
- Computer engineers (except software engineers and designers)
- Construction managers
- Electrical and electronics engineers
- Geological engineers
- Industrial and manufacturing engineers
- Managers in transportation
- Manufacturing managers
- Mechanical engineers
- Metallurgical and materials engineers
- Mining engineers
- Other professional engineers
- Petroleum engineers
- Software engineers and designers
- Utilities managers
Last update: January 29, 2026
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