Job Description

Join our globally growing team at ATS Industrial Automation where we create complex automation solutions at the highest level that sustainably impact lives around the world.

At ATS, a publicly traded global company with a proud 40-year history, we help drive the future with our factory-wide automation solutions. At ATS Industrial Automation, what we do matters - both to our customers and to their customers. With 1000 skilled employees around the world, we design, build and service mission-critical automated assembly and test solutions for mobility, nuclear and specialty automation. Our customers are leaders in their industries and rely on us to deliver what we promise - on time and on budget. Combined with our broad product portfolio, financial strength and global presence, we provide our customers with the best automation solutions wherever and whenever they need them.

Major Duties

Work with the customer and ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc. design team and project manager to design the system solutions, including hardware and software that meet the customer\'s process requirements for a prototype machine or entire systems. The design incorporates as many standard modules and tools as is practical.

Specific Responsibilities

• Participate in systems design, verification and validation to ensure process requirements are met.
• Assist in the systems engineering, including analysis and design, of all aspects of a machine, such as but not limited to:

• System Accuracy
• Cycle time
• Vibration
• Thermal
• Metrology/Instrumentation
• Kinematics
• Reliability/Maintainability
• Participate in the integration of some or all of the tasks for which he/she has design responsibilities.
• Perform hands-on testing of designed apparatus to mitigate high technical risks (proof of principle and engineering studies).
• Participate in learning a customer process, to support the design and eventually the integration of the machine once it is built.
• Assist in providing engineering support to ATS\' worldwide Business Units.
• Responsible for specification documents such as: Functional Specification, Design Specification and Acceptance Test Plans.
• Participate in mechanical, electrical and software design concept reviews.
• Work with the project team and Systems Specialist to solve design and process related problems.
• Model and conduct experiments on high risk system elements to validate design assumptions.
• Responsible for maintaining design changes.
• Conduct acceptance tests and approve process-critical third party equipment.
• Review machine performance from internal factory acceptance tests conducted on prototype machines.
• Participate in the commissioning of prototype machines.

Assist in quote preparation and ensure systems design concept meets process requirements.

Assist in defining and refining process requirements and design specifications.

Assist in ensuring the design of the system maximizes the use of standard modules.

Assist or participate in design reviews with customers, vendors and internal design groups.

Assist in coordinating project activities with suppliers of process critical third party equipment.

Assist the project team to identify critical path and dependencies between project activities.

Assist in identifying potentially high risk elements of the system.

Assist with continuous systems design improvements on production machines.

Ensure that all business activities are performed with the highest ethical standards and in compliance with the ATS Code of Business Conduct.

Adhere to all health and safety rules and procedures.

Qualifications

Education:

• A post secondary degree in Systems Design, Engineering Physics, Engineering Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical, Mechanical or Mechatronics Engineering or equivalent.

Experience:

• Prior experience with motion controls, robots, vision systems and project engineering would be an asset. Good written and oral communication skills and an ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary project team are essential.

Why should you join ATS Industrial Automation?

• Be a part of an engaged, empowered and innovative global workforce
• We offer a robust total rewards package- Competitive starting salaries, comprehensive health and dental benefits, overtime pay, employee bonus, RSP matching, Employee Share Purchase Program
• We provide awesome work perks such as treat days, gourmet coffee and beverages, subsidized breakfast and lunches in our cafeteria, employee referral bonuses and lots more.
• We are intentional about your professional growth and development through internal career opportunities and our educational reimbursement program.

ATS is in compliance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA), 2005 and will, upon request, assist those who may require specific accommodations due to a personal disability. We would ask that those who require assistance to notify our offices as soon as possible if accommodation is necessary

If you\'re excited about this role, but do not meet all the qualifications listed above, you are still encouraged to apply.

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