Applications Engineering and Quality Specialist Cambridge, ON, Canada Posted Thursday, July 9, 2026 at 4:00 a.m.

Job Title: Applications Engineering and Quality Specialist Location: Cambridge, ON | On-site Job Type: Full-time Compensation: $95,000 - $120,000 Benefits: RRSP, health/dental/vision package, reimbursement for tuition and professional dues, paid vacation, personal days, and sick days The Position: The Equipment Efficiency Specialist is a central role in aligning customer requirements and operational processes. Their key role will be supporting the quotation phase of customer proposals, delivering Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE), and cycle-time calculations that meet customer deliverables. In addition, they will bridge technical requirements and shop-floor realities using data-driven methods.

The Equipment Efficiency

Specialist will promote cross-functional collaboration, effective change leadership, and continuous improvement efforts to drive measurable efficiency and quality gains across the organization. What You'll Be Doing:

- Collaborate with applications engineering toimbedandvalidatecustomer quality requirements into proposals, ensuring specifications, acceptance criteria, and compliance obligations are clearly documented and actionable.
- Develop OEE and Cycle time requirements for Customer Proposals through studies, analysis tools and simulations thereby reducing risk and validating the outcome - Participate in customer RFQ review meetings, either on-site at the customer or in-house with primary stakeholders both internally and externally - Technical follow-up and support during engineering,



procurement & construction - Identify technical risks and their impact on the project & mitigate their effects - Partner with Project Managers and Department Managers to translate proposal-level requirements into executable plans during project kick-offs, ensuring technical acceptance criteria is understood - Lead change management initiatives to ensure adoption of new processes, tools, and standards; design communication plans, training materials, and feedback loops to sustain behavioral and operational change.
- Champion continuous improvement by applying Lean, Six Sigma, and related methodologies to identify and eliminate nonvalue-added activities - Monitor and report on key quality and efficiency metrics, using data to prioritize improvement opportunities, quantify cost savings, and track year-over-year performance gains.
- Recognize problems, initiate action, assist in problem solving and evaluate results - Maintaining Quality Control Systems, including establishing procedures, documentation, and stress-testing internal processes to ensure Eclipse consistently meets the required standards.
- Investigating process related quality issues, determining the underlying causes, and implementing corrective or preventive actions to prevent recurrence leveraging the NCR and CAR processes.
- Perform internal audits to ensure compliance with the Eclipse Quality Management System as well as participate in post project reviews in order to refine and enhance our procedures - Assist with Registrar and Customer audits to ensure continued certifications and approvals.



Impact and Outcomes - Clear and compliant customer proposals that reduce downstream rework and disputes.
- Faster, more consistent roll‑out of customer requirements and risk across projects.
- Reduced cycle time and waste through targeted improvement projects, yielding cost and efficiency gains.
- Broader adoption of best practices and standardized work across facilities, improving predictability and throughput.
- Strengthened organizational capability for continuous improvement and an embedded culture of operational excellence.

Leadership

- Promote positive relations between departments and with partners, customers, vendors, and distributors - Recommend and administer policies and procedures to support continuous improvement initiatives - Work requires skilled written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills - Ability to work in a team environment and actively participate in group meetings safely - Maintain good corporate citizen role in support of the Eclipse corporate Vision - Ensure that all business activities are performed with the highest ethical standards and in compliance with the Eclipse Automation Inc.

Conduct

Code - Foster the development of a culture reflective of the core values of the business What We're Looking For:

- Successfully completed either a University Degree or College Diploma inapplied science, engineeringfieldor related experience - Minimum of 10 years’ experience in quality assurance - Experience in quality management systems and auditing processes - Exceptional written and oral communication skills - Ability to gather and analyze data - High attention to detail - Automation industry experiences an asset - Experience working in GAMP, ISO 9001, CSA N299, GAMP, TSSA, NQA-1 and N299 fields an asset

📌 Applications Engineering and Quality Specialist (Cambridge)
🏢 Eclipse Automation
📍 Cambridge