Automation Technician

4 weeks ago


St Thomas, Ontario, Canada Magna Full time

About the Role

The Automation Technician is responsible for ensuring the efficiency and reliability of all Company tooling or production equipment and processes. This involves performing a variety of tasks, including preventative maintenance, repair of equipment, and design, verification, and maintenance of electrical schematics.

Your Responsibilities

  • Perform all duties and promote yourself in a manner that reflects Formet Expectations, Formet's Visions/Values through Magna's Employee Charter.
  • PLC, robot, and HMI programming, implementation, and troubleshooting.
  • Preventative maintenance of production and support equipment.
  • Repair of equipment.
  • Design, verification, and maintenance of electrical schematics.
  • Assist in setting up, maintaining programming, electrical components, and schematic standards.
  • Assist in proper maintenance of all programming software and application files and programming hardware.
  • Completion of all required work orders and associated paperwork.
  • Responsible to improve equipment reliability and uptime.
  • Implementation of Continuous Improvement Ideas.
  • Monitors quality of welds and performs touch-ups as required.
  • Recommend necessary adjustments to parts and machinery to ensure proper production run.
  • Troubleshooting on robots and weld controls.
  • Operate lifting devices (overhead bridge cranes, fork/combi-lifts, and man-lifts such as scissor lifts and genie-booms) as required.

Site Benefits

  • Shifts rotate every 2 weeks between Days, Afternoons, and Midnights.
  • Shift Premiums of $0.85/hour (afternoons) and $1.35/hour (midnights).
  • Weekly pay via direct deposit.
  • Overtime (1.5x) after 40 hours worked (hourly).
  • Vacation entitlement: 2 weeks of paid vacation (3 weeks after 3 years) + 4 company-paid holidays + 2x 1⁄2 days = 15 days annually.
  • Option to bank your overtime to earn up to an extra 5 days of paid time off (approved in the same manner as vacation time).
  • Skilled Trades referral bonus of $500 following successful hire of candidate.
  • Medical and Dental Benefits after 1 month of employment.
  • Free onsite physio.
  • Free on-site counselling for employees.
  • Magna will contribute an amount equal to 3% of regular earnings every week to your retirement savings (MBC program).
  • Profit sharing paid in the second quarter of every year (EEPPP Program).
  • Matched GRRSP.
  • Company Paid Life Insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D).
  • Optional group Life Insurance and Critical Illness Insurance for self and spouse.
  • Safety Shoe, prescription Safety Glasses, and Custom Molded Earplug allowance.
  • Company-paid uniforms (if you choose to use).
  • Company BBQ, Holiday Parties, and Company Events.
  • Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives.
  • Magna Service Award Program.
  • Roger's and Bell cellphone data plan available – as low as $50/month.
  • Subsidized cafeteria with daily specials including hot vegetarian options – we are known for our amazing cafeteria.
  • Free coffee, juice, and tea.
  • Employee Discounts: new vehicles, amusement parks, etc.
  • Plant-Wide Continuous Improvement Program.
  • You get to work with a FANTASTIC Team One Team, One Formet.

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At Magna, we believe that a diverse workforce is critical to our success. That's why we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We hire on the basis of experience and qualifications, and in consideration of job requirements, regardless of, in particular, color, ancestry, religion, gender, origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity. Magna takes the privacy of your personal information seriously. We discourage you from sending applications via email to comply with GDPR requirements and your local Data Privacy Law.



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