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About the Role
The Senior Automation Engineer will play a key role in project management, ensuring planning, cost, and schedule control, as well as the design, programming, and commissioning of automated systems. This role involves defining customer needs, designing automated systems, selecting equipment, programming PLCs and user interfaces, and participating in system testing and commissioning.
Responsibilities
- Define customer needs
- Design automated systems and select equipment (controls, instrumentation, motor controls, control panel design, etc.)
- Programming PLCs and user interfaces
- Participate in system testing and commissioning
- Manage factory automation projects: planning, supervision, change control, and reporting on budget, schedule, and resources, manufacturers, and contractors
- Prepare specifications, plans, and estimates
- Collaborate with the interdisciplinary project team
- Follow up with equipment suppliers
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in automated production engineering (APE), electrical engineering, or equivalent.
- Member of Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO)
- 10-12 years’ experience in the field of industrial automation
- Knowledge of Allen Bradley, Rockwell, and Siemens products
- Experience in the food and/or pharmaceutical industry (an asset)
- Occasional visits to clients in the Greater Toronto Area
- Strong leadership, relationship management, organizational planning and project management skills, in addition to technical knowledge
- Entrepreneurial mindset and desire for business development.
- Ability to exercise independent judgment in methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results
- Ability to influence clients, suppliers and peers into adopting "best practices" in the engineering field
- Excellent communication skills - verbal, written, listening and interpersonal with the ability to transfer knowledge to others
- Capability to engage and energize others to reach their fullest potential and performance
- Have flexibility to travel to external manufacturing sites as needed
Skills
- Automated systems design
- PLC programming
- User interface programming
- System testing
- Commissioning
- Project management
- Planning
- Cost control
- Schedule control
- Budget management
- Resource management
- Change control
- Reporting
- Specification preparation
- Plan preparation
- Estimate preparation
- Equipment selection
- Allen Bradley products
- Rockwell products
- Siemens products
- Leadership
- Relationship management
- Organizational planning
- Technical knowledge
- Business development
- Independent judgment
- Influence
- Communication skills (verbal, written, listening, interpersonal)
- Knowledge transfer
- Team engagement
- Team energizing
Location
- Toronto, ON
Work Type
- Hybrid work mode
- Occasional visits to clients
- Travel to external manufacturing sites
Experience Level
- Senior
- 10-12 years’ experience in the field of industrial automation
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in automated production engineering (APE), electrical engineering, or equivalent.
- Member of Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO)
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary commensurate with experience and industry standards
Benefits
- Comprehensive group health insurance coverage from day one (medical, dental, vision, childcare)
- Employer-contributed RRSP plan at 4%
- Professional reimbursement fees (e.g., APEGA, APEGS, EGBC, etc…) covered by the company
- Mentorship programs
- Training
- Cross-department opportunities
- 3 weeks of regular vacation
- 1 week of paid vacation during the Christmas holidays
- 1 week of Personal/Sick leave
- Lunch & Learn sessions
- Team retreats
- Outdoor activities
- Family get-togethers
- Workshops
- Public transport reimbursement
- Telephone reimbursement
About the Company
- LAPORTE is a consulting engineering firm providing high-value engineering services to the pharmaceutical, food and beverage, industrial biotechnology, and industrial manufacturing sectors.
- Has 30 offices across North America and Europe and more than 520 dedicated employees.
- An independent company wholly owned by 45 of its principal engineers.
- Offers a stimulating environment where autonomy, collaboration and professional growth are at the heart of our daily work.
- Believes in a flexible working environment that values work-life balance while encouraging efficiency and creativity on a daily basis.
- Aims to be an employer who takes care of its greatest asset: its employees!
Equal Opportunity
- A diverse, flexible, and non-conformist work environment that values equity, work-life balance, and promotes efficiency in daily tasks with enormous growth opportunities