Job Title: Automation Specialist

Location: St Thomas, ON (Hybrid)

Estimated Duration: 12 Months
 

 

Automation & Robotics Specialist (12-Month Contract)
 

What You’ll Do

  • Own automation performance for the foundry and sanding cells, with equipment utilization as the main measure of success
  • Bring new jobs into the cells by building and proving out programs, then releasing them to production
  • Develop and maintain automation recipes and process parameters to meet quality and production targets
  • Use offline programming (RoboDK) to confirm robot reach and build collision-free paths
  • Commission, validate, touch up and optimize robot programs on production equipment
  • Troubleshoot robot motion, positioning, TCPs, frames and calibration
  • Diagnose and fix PLC, HMI and communication faults, including on peripheral process equipment
  • Own issues through to resolution with operations, maintenance, engineering, integrators and equipment vendors
  • Train and support operators and maintenance staff, and keep documentation and programming standards current
  • Give engineering leadership clear, proactive status updates

What You Bring
Required

  • 3+ years of hands-on industrial automation, covering both robot programming and PLC programming
  • FANUC robot programming and troubleshooting, including DCS parameters, position registers and robot mastering
  • Siemens PLC and HMI programming with Profinet/Profisafe
  • Strong troubleshooting skills and the confidence to work independently as the site’s automation lead
  • Clear, proactive communication

Preferred

  • Universal Robots (UR)
  • Offline programming and simulation (RoboDK or similar)
  • Foundry, casting or sanding/finishing automation
  • 3D CAD and fixture design

The pay range that the employer reasonably expects to pay for this position is between CA$35.00 and CA$45.00

Our voluntary benefits offering includes medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits.

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