Automation Specialist

Job description

Change the future with us.

We are looking for dedicated and talented people who tackle ever-changing challenges, customer needs, and questions from colleagues with clever concepts and creativity. We embrace change and work with curious minds re-inventing the future of work. Join us and let us focus together on what’s truly important: making lives better with new ideas and the latest technology around the world.

Why you’ll love working for Siemens!

• Freedom and a healthy work- life balance– Embrace our flexible work environment with flex hours, telecommuting and digital workspaces.
• Solve the world’s most significant problems – Be part of exciting and innovative projects.
• Engaging, challenging, and fast evolving, cutting edge technological environment.
• Opportunities to advance your career and mentorship programs on a local and global scale.
• Competitive total rewards package.
• Profit sharing available.
• Rewarding vacation entitlement with the opportunity to buy and sell your vacation depending on your lifestyle.
• Contribute to our social responsibility initiatives focused on access to education, access to technology and sustaining communities and make a positive impact on the community.
• Participate in our celebrations, social events and offsite business events.
• Opportunities to contribute your innovative ideas and get paid for them!
• Employee perks and discounts.
• Diversity and inclusivity focused.

Siemens is proud to be an eight-time award winner of Canada’s Top 100 Employers, Canada’s Greenest Employers 2022, Canada’s Top Employers for Young People 2023 and Greater Toronto's Top Employers 2022.

What will you do?

• Work daily from customer’s site and participate onsite customer project technical meetings.
• Understand customer’s daily technical challenges, project risks
• Provide technical support to customer’s challenges like PLC programming & configuration issues, data structures etc. Prepare ladder logic design patches for the projects in installation / commissioning phase
• Review PLC, HMI and device configuration prepared by suppliers, machine builders, contractors and provide automation technical support during site acceptance testing, commissioning of the machines
• Coordinate the provision of technical support with Siemens Canadian technical support team, global head office team, EPC, system integrators, global machine builders
• Support project manager during project execution in order to minimize time and cost impact of onsite design modification during debugging, commissioning etc
• Channel product delivery related issues and additional training needs to your Canadian colleagues at Siemens Canada
• Provide customer’s project activities updates to Siemens Capture Team on regular basis
• Monitor the consistent application of programming and data structures by the EPC, global machine builders at the end user and EPC site.
• Provide efficient solution with faster response to customer’s challenges like product delivery related risks, technical risks, process optimizations, trainings needs, etc.
• Coordinate and support sales and Battery Account Manager in defining and executing on sales opportunities in close collaboration with presales support team from DI business units
• Act as liaison and trusted partner within customer’s team

What will you need to succeed?

• University or college degree in mechatronics engineering, electrical engineering, or related engineering fields (industrial automation background is preferred).
• More than 2-4 years working experience in industries with engineering, Drives and PLC programming, process automation projects in combination of effective customer orientation and readiness to agile working, multi-tasking, and regular based traveling
• In-depth knowledge of PLCs and SCADA programming and configuration including professional software tools
• Collaborative, self sufficient and ability to work independently at customer site and in team environment
• Excellent communication skills, bilingual, both written and verbal, with the ability to communicate with internal and external partners of all levels to conduct meetings, workshops etc

About us.

We share our ideas and champion the people behind them.

For over 110 years, Siemens Canada has stood for engineering excellence, innovation, quality and reliability. Active across Canada, the company focuses on intelligent infrastructure for buildings and distributed energy systems and on automation and digitalization in the process and manufacturing industries. Siemens brings together the digital and physical worlds to benefit customers and society. Through Mobility, a leading supplier of intelligent mobility solutions for rail and road transport, Siemens is helping to shape Canada’s passenger rail services. Via its majority stake in the publicly listed company Siemens Healthineers, Siemens is also a leading supplier of medical technology and digital health services. In addition, Siemens holds a minority stake in Siemens Energy, a global leader in the transmission and generation of electrical power.

Making a difference together we raised $385,000 towards charitable contributions, support over 38 non-profit organizations and planted 660 trees in our local communities. Siemens Canada has 2,500 employees from coast-to-coast and 24 office and production facilities across Canada. Join our team of approximately 293,000 talented professionals in more than 190 countries/regions and help us tackle the most exciting challenges to build a successful future together. So, what are you waiting for? Take your next career step with us.

To learn more about Siemens Canada, visit our website at www.siemens.ca

While we appreciate all applications we receive, we advise that only candidates under consideration will be contacted.

Siemens is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Upon request, Siemens Canada will provide reasonable accommodation for disabilities to support participation of candidates in all aspects of the recruitment process. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment.

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