Job Description

POSITION TITLE

Design Engineer

REPORTS TO

Director of Engineering

LOCATION

Brampton, ON

WHO WE ARE

Horstman Canada Inc., a company of the RENK group, is an agile and growing business comprising business units in the UK, US, and Canada. Providing world-leading design and manufacturing capabilities, our customers benefit from a proven track record of innovation, product development, manufacturing, and defense project management in heavy armored and tracked vehicle suspension systems.

We design and manufacture suspension components for wheeled and tracked military vehicles and off-highway machines used in construction, forestry, mining and agriculture. These components include passive and semi-active dampers and hydro pneumatic struts. Horstman Canada is a CGRP-registered corporation and is a RENK group company.

POSITION SUMMARY

Our design engineers are involved in all stages of a product's development. The position provides the engineer with a mix of opportunities: R&D projects completed in our lab; engineering projects designing and building prototypes for customer vehicle testing; production support on new product deployment and legacy product sustainment. They will apply design principles from school and past experiences and acquire new skills and knowledge through their experience and training at Horstman.

REPORTING RELATIONSHIP

The engineer will report to the Director of Engineering and work in a close-knit team with Horstman staff across Horstman Canada and the wider Horstman Group and RENK companies.

KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The responsibilities of the Design Engineer include:

Support production operations (Manufacturing, QA, Product Design) on technical matters Learn, absorb and apply Horstman institutional knowledge Participate and collaborate with the Business Development group on new customer applications and existing programs Undertake projects applying and evolving Passive Damping and Hydro Pneumatic technologies in line with schedules, budgets, and resource Cooperate and collaborate within the Engineering team and Horstman functional teams to achieve our common goals

KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITY REQUIRED

Canadian resident with Canadian citizen or Permanent Resident status (due to the nature of some of the projects) Applicable Undergraduate Engineering degree (such as Mechanical, Automotive or Aerospace, Engineering Science) Minimum 2 years of relevant industry experience Professional Engineer designation or eligibility

TECHNICAL AND SOFT SKILLS

Engineering

Experience applying core mechanical engineering principles to product design on a system, component and feature level (especially material selection, design for manufacturing, kinematics, dynamics, mechanics of solids, machine design) Experience deriving hypotheses, conclusions and next actions from data and observations Good technical comprehension and aptitude; comfortable in a lab or work shop setting Good engineering, documentation and change management practices (drawings, reports, design inputs and outputs, SOWs, ECOs, revision control) in line with ISO 9001

Teamwork and Leadership

Effective communication in English, both oral and written Effective and independent critical thinking, effort management and decision-making Willingness to own and be accountable for their work and the quality of their work Work and collaborate with team (colleagues, internal/external customers, vendors) in a professional and respectful manner Able to develop and understand the problem definition, processes, work breakdown, priorities, schedule and deliverables necessary to reach the end goal of a complex project Ability to keep multiple projects progressing to their schedules

Succeed further with:

Vehicle systems knowledge relating to suspension performance and vehicle dynamics Experience in product design activities such as function deployment, DFMA, Root Cause Analysis, Failure Analysis and FMEA Experience in experimentation and in verification and validation testing (especially with dynamic performance and durability) Knowledge of applicable design standards used in the defence and automotive industries Motivation for growth in your Engineering and Professional skillsets

WHAT THIS JOB WILL BRING TO YOU

Variety in day-to-day work in lab and office settings Exposure to R&D and production environments and activities Exposure to automotive and defence industry processes Potential for collaborative work, field work and travel to other Horstman sites or to customers' sites
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: $70,000.00-$80,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Company events Company pension Dental care Extended health care On-site parking Paid time off RRSP match Vision care
Ability to commute/relocate:

Brampton, ON L6T 1C1: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Application question(s):

Explain the difference between a spring and a damper Are you a Permanent Resident or Citizen of Canada which is a requirement to complete the Controlled Goods Program, mandatory for everyone working on the property of Horstman Canada Inc.
Language:

English (required)
Work Location: In person