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Intermediate Systems Designer

Job in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
Listing for: ATS Industrial Automation
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-06-24
Job specializations:
  • Engineering
    Engineering Design & Technologists, Systems Engineer, Manufacturing Engineer, Quality Engineering
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 36 - 50 CAD Hourly CAD 36.00 50.00 HOUR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Health Care Benefits + $600 Health Care Spending Account
Employee Engagement Events (Employee BBQ’s and lunches, weekly treat day, etc.)
Employee Development Programs

Job Description

Total Compensation & Benefits:

Pay Rate: $36 - $50/hour
Eligible for Annual Incentive Bonus
Stock Purchase Plan
3 Weeks Vacation
Health Care Benefits + $600 Health Care Spending Account
Employee Engagement Events (Employee BBQ’s and lunches, weekly treat day, etc.)
Employee Development Programs

Job Posting

As an Intermediate Systems Designer [Engineer] you are a technical leader behind problem solving efforts and project execution. You will work with a highly capable team driven to provide solutions to customers’ problems, fostering customer relationships and building customer loyalty. You will get the opportunity to thrive as a technical leader by becoming the subject matter expert in the automation system and the customer's cutting-edge manufacturing processes, providing project technical clarify by defining system requirements, validating system capability and working on the system from cradle to launch.

You'll be part of a dynamic engineering team - empowered to solve problems in the office and on the ground floor where every day matters. Your ability to design, create, execute, be creative, problem solve and work as a team will drive the team’s success.

Join the winning team at ATS where we strive to make tomorrow better than today.

MAJOR DUTIES:

An Intermediate Systems Designer [Engineer] is responsible for managing technical aspects of a project and overseeing engineering requirements specific to the project. You are responsible for working with the customer, ATS project manager, and ATS project team for the creation and validation of system requirements. You will be required to deep dive into customer processes and become the local system process subject matter expert.

All these responsibilities will ultimately drive improvements in quality, cost, and delivery.

Long Description

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:

Project Technical Leadership

Provide technical oversight, problem solving and coordination of project engineering work.

Provide project support during system startup, integration and buy-off.

Assist in the systems design and development of system concepts and labor hours in quotation preparation.

Actively participate in design reviews

Assist in systems’ design, development, execution planning and monitoring.

Manage project technical risk; ensuring to highlight high risk areas and create mitigation plans to reduce risk.

Model and conduct experiments on high-risk system elements to validate design assumptions.

Manage and monitor ‘process critical’ third party equipment vendors to ensure compliance with requirements and adherence to budget and schedule.

Conduct acceptance tests and approving ‘process critical’ third party equipment.

Subject Matter Expertise

Responsible for learning customer processes; becoming the local expert in their process, to support the design and eventually the integration of the as-built machine.

Develop, design and/or manage POP (proof of principle) studies to prove high risk elements and design ideas.

Prepare systems-level design calculations including but not limited to:

Systems Accuracy

Metrology / Instrumentation

Kinematics

Reliability / Maintainability

Process Capability

Gauge Capability

Cycle-time

Machine Overall Equipment Effectiveness

Perform hands-on testing.

Requirements Definition and Verification

Prepare, compile and document design requirements (ex. Functional Requirements Specifications)

Evaluate and document design outputs for conformance to design requirements (ex. Acceptance Test Plans)

Evaluate and document overall machine system performance (MOEE, Cycle time, Availability, Yield)

Evaluate and prepare Failure Modes and Effects analyses (pFMEAs, mFMEAs, dFMEAs) as required.

Evaluate and prepare machinery Safety Risk Assessments

Learn, understand and flow down customer and industry requirements to ensure overall machine compliance.

Create technical specifications to purchase and validates specialized third-party equipment (ex. Vendor Technical Specifications)

Additional Information

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

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