Robotics Laboratory Technician

**Date Posted**:08/15/2025
**Req ID**: 44811
**Faculty/Division**: UofT Mississauga
**Department**: UTM: Math/Comp. Sciences
**Campus**: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)
**Position Number**: 00048196

**Description**:
**About us**:
U of T Mississauga—the second largest campus of Canada’s top-ranked university and the only research university in Ontario’s booming Peel Region—is one of the world’s great catalysts of human potential.

Our employee community hums with the energy of 3,400 faculty, librarians and staff, who power our campus with curiosity, connection and care. We work together to spark life-changing research and innovation, make an indelible mark on the world by building equitable cities and societies, enable healthy lives, create a sustainable future and ignite entrepreneurship. Above all, we prioritize student success, and seek to give our 16,500 students the lift of a lifetime through learning and discovery. We love to open opportunities available nowhere else for our community to achieve their ambitions and make their unique contributions to Canada and the world.

This work all comes together on a spectacularly green campus, alongside the Missinihe-ziibi (Trusting Creek or Credit River), where we seek to honour truth, reciprocity and reconciliation on the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, Seneca and the Mississauga's of the Credit First Nation. We’re thrilled to welcome those who want to learn more about us and to be part of what we do.

**Your opportunity**:
The Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences is an academic unit that includes mathematics, computer science and statistics. We can only realize our mission with the dedication and excellence of engaged staff and faculty.

The Department has established a Robotics Program in computer science that promotes research and teaching in some of the most dynamic areas of robotics. As the Department’s robotics technician, you will be the primary point of contact for robotics instructors and will be responsible for implementing all aspects of the undergraduate teaching lab and subsequent liaising with faculty to coordinate experiment set up to compliment theoretical material. The robotics teaching lab has seven collaborative robot arms as well as mobile and soft robots. The incumbent would be responsible for supporting the student projects that run in the lab. In this position you are responsible for the day-to-day operational needs of the robotics undergraduate teaching labs.

**Your responsibilities will include**:

- Providing detailed explanations and demonstrating procedures to students and/or employees on lab techniques, experimental procedures and protocols
- Preparing, assembling and setting-up material, equipment and supplies according to the needs of the laboratory
- Liaising with course instructors to coordinate experiment set-up to compliment theoretical material
- Maintaining robotics hardware and software
- Providing safety training and ensuring adherence to safety protocols and standards
- Implementing plans and process improvements for laboratory activities
- Troubleshooting issues with laboratory equipment
- Disseminating information regarding policies and guidelines to laboratory users

**Essential Qualifications**:

- Advanced College Diploma (3 years) in Mechatronics, Computer Science, Engineering or acceptable combination of equivalent experience.
- Minimum four years of recent experience in Robotics.
- Four years of experience with C++ and Python
- Minimum four years of hands on experience with robotics - preferably a collaborative robot
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills, including tact and diplomacy when dealing with others
- Excellent attention to detail with high level of accuracy
- Demonstrated ability to learn and work in a fast-paced environment
- Good presentation and public speaking skills
- Excellent multitasking skills with the ability to effectively prioritize and meet deadlines
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Excellent decision making skills with good judgement
- A very high level of muscular coordination and/or manual dexterity to execute very precise and synchronized movements.

**Assets (Nonessential)**:

- Previous experience in an undergraduate teaching lab and/or educational environment an asset.

**To be successful in this role you will be**:

- Communicator
- Goal oriented
- Organized
- Proactive
- Problem solver
- Self-directed

**Closing Date**: 09/12/2025, 11:59PM ET
**Employee Group**: USW
**Appointment Type**: Budget - Continuing
**Schedule**: Full-Time Monday to Friday 8:45am-5:00pm
**Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone**:
**Job Category**: Engineering / Technical
**Recruiter**: Jessica Halteh

**Lived Experience Statement**

**This role is not currently eligible for a hybrid work arrangement, pursuant to University policies and guidelines, including but not limited to the**University of Toronto’s Alternative Work Arrangement