Location: Cambridge, ON | On-site
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits: RRSP, health/dental/vision package, reimbursement for tuition and professional dues, paid vacation, personal days, and sick days
Get to Know Us:
Eclipse Automation, part of Accenture, delivers cutting-edge custom automated manufacturing solutions across multiple industries. We combine advanced automation expertise with Accenture’s digital transformation capabilities to create smart, efficient, and sustainable manufacturing systems. Our global network includes facilities in Canada, the United States, Germany, Hungary, Switzerland, and Malaysia, ensuring regional expertise and global strength.
The Position:
The Controls Hardware Design Project/Team Lead will provide leadership and coordination of Controls Hardware Design functions and costing. The incumbent will assist in the development and implementation of Controls Engineering policies and procedures, liaise directly with other department personnel to ensure project goals are met on budget, while delivering the Eclipse Vision and the Eclipse Entrepreneurial Culture.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Recognize problems, initiate action, assist in problem solving, and evaluate results on major hardware design issues prior to releasing drawings to manufacturing
- Review and approve all project designs and that the designs meet the Eclipse high standards of quality, reliability, and safety
- Develop and coordinate project designs within the Controls Engineering team
- Ensure concepts meet Eclipse Automation quality, safety, and reliability standards
- Guide, direct, teach, assist, and advise department staff on practical design practices and standards
- Assist resources in the department in their development through coaching and mentoring
- Guide, organize, and coordinate assigned staff to prioritize project delivery
- Lead the hardware design project team to ensure project contract deliverables are met
- Work to specific project budgets and milestones provided by project management
- Promote positive relations with partners, customers, vendors, and distributors
- Recommend and consistently administer policies and procedures to enhance department operations and support continuous improvement
- Liaise between all departments to ensure on time delivery of purchased items and on time delivery of Eclipse machinery and equipment
- Work with Human Resources and abide by the Employment Standards Act and the Eclipse Employee Handbook
- Promote environmentally and ergonomically safe conceptual product and/or processes to ensure safety of Eclipse personnel and the customer’s employees
- Initiate and supervise the planning and development of project electrical and controls designs and order any required department materials
- Complete other duties and projects as assigned
- Act as the point-of-contact for the Project Management department for all for assigned projects
- Update project completion with respect to weekly confirmation of critical milestones, labour hours, material budget, and percent complete on project
- Ensure scheduled milestones are met and escalate to Project Management if a milestone is at risk
- Update Open Issues List as required
- Assist in performance reviews
- Attend appropriate meetings
- Assume full responsibility for hardware design scope of assigned projects
- Delegation of duties of the hardware design project to team members
- Ensure that Company ISO Standards are followed
- Ensure project tasks are entered correctly and promptly for accurate man hour records for Project Management department
- Respond to CARs issued to the department, as requested
- Has successfully completed either a University Degree or College Diploma in Electrical, Systems, or Mechatronics, or Robotics Automation Technology
- Must have intermediate level experience with EPLAN and be proficient with MS Office
- Experience with hydraulics, pneumatics, electrical controls, and integration of equipment would be an asset
- 10+ years of experience in the custom automation industry
- Work requires professional written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to motivate teams to produce quality materials within tight timeframes and simultaneously manage multiple projects
- Facilitate and actively participate in group/project meetings
- Reimbursement for tuition and professional dues
- 3 weeks of vacation and 5 paid personal days (to start)
- RRSP matching program
- Free snack program
Here at Eclipse Automation, creation and innovation are at our core, and our culture reflects that. Fast-paced and continuously fostering growth, we encourage the entrepreneurial spirit that our teams embody, and leverage each of their strengths to do better for our people, our clients, and our communities.
Our teams are made up of innovators, thinkers, and doers, with the know-how and expertise to exceed expectations, and the relentless spirit to create and reinvent. Our people are what enable us to live up to our name – to eclipse all others, inspiring and creating outcomes that change the world.
Eclipse Automation is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive work environment. It is our policy to recruit and select applicants solely on the basis of their qualifications. We are an equal opportunity employer that hires talent regardless of age, race, creed, colour, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, or any other status or condition protected by applicable law.
Eclipse Automation encourages applications from all qualified candidates. Those in need of accommodation at any stage of the recruitment process should notify [email protected]. Any information received that relates to accommodation needs of a candidate will be addressed in a confidential manner.
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