Mechanical Design Technologist

POSITION SUMMARY: 

The Process Safety Technologist (PST) will improve/standardize and maintain best working practices with respect to machine guarding and functional safety of machinery and equipment lines within the A&I Rexdale/Vaughan facilities. This role will address compliance to workplace safety standards and providing a safe and healthy workplace for employees as well as supporting safe delivery of new process introductions, operational cost savings, and capacity improvements.
The PST will be principal in providing direction and co-ordination of key safety improvement programs and maintaining PSHSR compliance through facility transition and new equipment line integration.
Additional responsibilities of the role will include:
•    Self-driven and independently managing projects requiring communication with multiple stakeholders and under budgetary, time and resource constraints
•    Co-ordinating and supporting outside vendor structured projects for larger safety improvement projects/initiatives
•    Building and maintaining outside vendor relationships for efficient integration practices
•    Actively collaborating within the process engineering, operations and HSE team to provide practical solutions regarding machine guarding and functional safety
•    Developing and managing machine/task based risk assessments and employing risk based tools to drive actions and provide positive feedback for continuous improvement initiatives
•    Demonstrate structured safety initiative effectiveness employing common standard tools to jurisdiction such as provided in CSA Z1002, Z432, Z434, ANSI B11, ISO13849
•    Engaging directly with production to facilitate training and feedback focused on operational safety improvement
•    Generation and revision of work instructions, standard operating procedures and lessons learned
•    Executing efficiently structured and strategic problem-solving processes addressing medium-long term corrective actions for more complex problems
•    Use of CAD, generation of drawings and management of fabrication vendors for internal fabrication projects supporting safety guarding and safety system integration
•    Facilitating embedded knowledge transfer within the team regarding process safety principles and best practices

DUTIES:
1.    Manage outside vendor projects including scoping, quoting, CAPEX initiation/approval and execution of machine-guarding related projects
2.    Design, coordinate and execute internal machine guarding projects such as fixed guarding to ensure equipment meet standards
3.    Complete and maintain PSHSR document library for all equipment lines
4.    Co-ordinate, complete and maintain task/machine based risk assessments to demonstrate conformance to applicable standards of jurisdiction
5.    Ensure management of change is completed for new and redesigned processes and equipment
6.    Generate related documents for machine guarding and process safety
7.    Facilitate internal training and knowledge transfer with respect to machine safety activities

REQUIREMENTS:
-    Minimum 2 years of experience in machine guarding design & implementation 

-    Strong Understanding and experience in Design & integration of functional safety controls (eg. CSA Z434/432, CSA Z1002, ISO13849, ANSI B11 ) - Must 
-     Prvious Manufacturing experience is a must 
-    Knowledge and experience in CAD Design ex. AutoCAD, SolidWorks is required

-    Minimum High School education
-    Mechanical Design Technology Training - preferred
-    Trade experience is an asset
-    Above average mechanical aptitude
-    Good project management skills
-    Good interpersonal and communication skills

-     Ability to work fully onsite
-     Ability to work at least 50% of the time in shop floor during execution (Industrial work environment)