Manufacturing Technician

Dark Vision, a Koch Engineered Solutions company, is looking for a Manufacturing Technician to join our manufacturing operations in North Vancouver. This highly skilled team works on a wide range of bleeding edge technologies in a great work environment that prioritizes the employee experience. The successful candidate will do everything and anything necessary to support our manufacturing, product development, and research.

This is a hands-on position with a strong focus on electro-mechanical assembly and testing.

This is an on-site regular full-time position in our HQ in North Vancouver, BC, where employees enjoy full access to our facility amenities including a well-equipped gym, squash court, climbing wall, steam room, and more!

Dark Vision produces the world’s most advanced acoustic-based imaging platform for Oil & Gas and industrial asset inspection applications. Our Manufacturing team brings these devices to life by building subcomponents, subassemblies, and final assemblies for our state-of-the-art ultrasound probes.

You will have the opportunity to learn many new skills and carry out a variety of unique, hands-on tasks. If you like variety and enjoy picking up new skills outside of your comfort zone, this is the perfect role for you. You will be joining a great team of Manufacturing Technicians who can help guide and train you as you learn the skills needed to excel in this role!

• Building Small Stuff - Forming and fabricating piezo-electric transducers, micro-soldering, molding, etc.
• Building Big Stuff - Building research apparatus such as test platforms, test jigs, and our core products
• Breaking Stuff - Carrying out experiments and product validation using test equipment. For example, you’ll break stuff in our heated pressure vessel at 10,000 psi and 200 C and then figure out what went wrong!
• Fixing Stuff - Replacing and repairing components, and refurbishing our ultrasonic scanning tools
• Ensuring Stuff Works - Our work is highly technical; you should like to learn new technologies while ensuring a high standard of quality in your work.
• Quality Control - Measurement of incoming parts with reference to drawings
• This position does not have any automation or programming related work

• Experience in product assembly or technical hobbies in mechanics or electronics
• Soldering experience
• Mechanical aptitude - you have hands-on experience in assembling - taking things apart, putting them back together again
• Ability to read and comprehend mechanical drawings and schematics
• Ability to read and comprehend wiring diagrams

• Strong interest in building and tinkering with electronics or mechanics as evidenced by hobbies or previous jobs
• Technical certificate or diploma from a technical institute (in manufacturing, mechatronics, electrical, electronics, mechanical, or a similar field)
• Ability to build components from spec
• Ability to use and understand electronic testing equipment such as multi-meters
• Experience in QC and measurement of components
• Experience soldering under a microscope
• A meticulous, precise, and detail-orientated approach

For this role, we anticipate paying $50,000 to $65,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location.

If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Dark Vision Technologies Inc. is a Canada-based tech company disrupting the industrial imaging market since 2013. We have created the world’s most advanced acoustic-based imaging platform. We are packaging it into multiple new product lines, revolutionizing how our clients quantify and visualize the integrity…