Job Description

Overview

The Mechatronics Engineer provides technical support for the Mechanical & Mechatronics Engineering department with primary responsibility for the undergraduate Mechatronics Engineering students.

Responsibilities

Provide technical support for the Mechatronics courses

• Supervise, instruct, and mentor students
• Create, develop and lead labs, demonstrations, and workshops
• Design and construct electro-mechanical systems for labs and class use
• Create and develop embedded software and hardware systems for labs and class use
• Develop written instructions and manuals for students
• Maintain safety standards
• Maintain equipment inventory
• Maintain and update undergraduate lab spaces
• Provide supervision of undergraduate lab spaces

Support undergraduate projects

• Supervise, instruct, and assist students
• Develop and operate design competitions for departmental symposia
• Maintain safety standards

Keep pace with technology and program requirements

• Be flexibly responsive to changing teaching needs
• Maintain training levels to be current with subject matter
• Regularly review teaching labs to ensure topics are current

Other duties

• Resolve lab related issues
• Participate in committees, such as the curriculum committee
• Act as technical consultants for projects and committees as required
• Supervise co-op students working with the Engineering Teaching Staff team

Qualifications

• A degree in mechatronics engineering or similar engineering program is required.
• Must be eligible to register as Professional Engineer or Engineer in Training in a Canadian jurisdiction.
• Several years of relevant experience is required.
• Must have operational experience in the areas listed below.
• A strong aptitude for mechatronics technologies and systems is essential. Must have good knowledge in many of the following areas:

• Multidisciplinary design of consumer or industrial products
• Embedded software systems (C, C++) and workflows (IDEs, git)
• Robotics and control systems
• Electronics lab skills (power supplies, oscilloscopes, multimeters, function generators, through-hole and surface-mount soldering techniques)
• Engineering tools (e.g., Labview, MatLab, PLC programming)
• Board-level analog and digital embedded circuits and power systems design
• Computer aided design and solid modelling
• Product design cycles
• Product sourcing
• Electro-mechanical systems
• Hydraulic, pneumatic, and electric control systems
• Mechanical testing equipment
• Data acquisition, monitoring, and control systems
• Systems maintenance and calibration
• Safety standards and procedures (e.g. CSA)

Equity Statement

The University of Waterloo is committed to implementing the Calls to Action framed by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. We acknowledge that we live and work on the traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee peoples. The University of Waterloo is situated on the Haldimand Tract, the land granted to the Six Nations that includes six miles on each side of the Grand River.

The University values the diverse and intersectional identities of its students, faculty, and staff. The University regards equity and diversity as an integral part of academic excellence and is committed to accessibility for all employees. The University of Waterloo seeks applicants who embrace our values of equity, anti-racism and inclusion. As such, we encourage applications from candidates who have been historically disadvantaged and marginalized, including applicants who identify as First Nations, Metis and/or Inuk (Inuit), Black, racialized, a person with a disability, women and/or 2SLGBTQ+.

All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.

The University of Waterloo is committed to accessibility for persons with disabilities. If you have any application, interview, or workplace accommodation requests, please contact Human Resources at or 519-888-4567, ext. 45935.