Technical Quality Specialist

Location:
Cambridge, ON, CA, N3H 4R7 Join our globally growing team at ATS Industrial Automation where we create complex automation solutions at the highest level that sustainably impact lives around the world. At ATS, a publicly traded global company with a proud 40-year history, we help drive the future with our factory-wide automation solutions. At ATS Industrial Automation, what we do matters
- both to our customers and to their customers. With 1000 skilled employees around the world, we design, build and service mission-critical automated assembly and test solutions for mobility, nuclear and specialty automation. Our customers are leaders in their industries and rely on us to deliver what we promise
- on time and on budget. Combined with our broad product portfolio, financial strength and global presence, we provide our customers with the best automation solutions wherever and whenever they need them.
- Pay Range: $72,000
- $99,000 per annum
- Eligible for Annual Incentive Bonus
- Stock Purchase Plan
- Health Care Benefits + $600 Health Care Spending Account
- Employee Engagement Events (Employee BBQ’s and lunches, weekly snack day, etc.)
- Employee Development Programs Major Duties The Technical Quality Specialist is responsible for providing technical support to all aspects of the Business and Quality Management System and supporting internal and external operations. This includes standardizing quality business processes by recognizing opportunities for correction/improvement, measurement system analysis, data collection and analysis to potential causes, generating improvement solutions by establishing and standardizing controls to the causes of the problem and communicating ownership back to the process owner. Specific Responsibilities




- Strictly follow CSA N285/NQA Quality requirements as defined within the manual and procedures.
- Assist process owners in the interpretation of quality, technical performance and business requirements.
- Develop, recommend and facilitate implementation changes to workflow; improve quality management system, review operational performance and provide solutions.
- Support the deployment of ISO 9001, N299.1, NQA/N285 program and perform audits with associated RCCA activities.
- Inspection of incoming parts and associated supplier documentation.
- Review incoming unqualified/qualified source material for compliance with the Purchase Order and code requirements
- Analyze and prepare statistical data to determine capability of processes and measurement systems.
- Analyze test data as evidence to the degree of compliance to customer specifications.
- Investigate product/process/system quality issues, develop and initiate improvement, preventative actions and/or corrective actions.
- Conduct internal and external process compliance investigations/audits.
- Act as a mentor by cultivating a network of experts in the workplace.
- Provide formal training and coaching to local personnel in current strategies and tools.
- Support the deployment strategy for connecting suppliers to the factory, Kanban/pull signals for replenishment in conjunction with material planning.
- Perform supplier certification, process and product audits.




- Facilitate supplier quality issues to ensure on time delivery to field and reduce loss time manufacturing.
- Develop and facilitate Supplier Quality Improvement Plans as appropriate.
- Measure progress on process improvement opportunities.
- Determine and establish elements of the design for quality and reliability program for hardware and manufacturing. Work with process owners in integration, hardware and materials to implement these elements as part of the product development process.
- Act as the customer advocate during the product development and production phases of the life cycle.
- Facilitate Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) in conjunction with Engineering.
- Perform product investigations and facilitate RCCA activities.
- Responsible for verification and tracking of Process/ISO RCCA requests.
- Support Applications in project quoting as required.
- Conduct process capability and gauge repeatability and reliability studies on manufactured equipment.
- Prepare nuclear ATP’s, Product Quality and Control Plans and associated procedures.
- Complete Pre FATs to ensure customer requirements have been achieved.
- Work in compliance with divisional health, safety and environmental procedures.
- Refrain from removing or altering safety devices or guarding unless hazardous energies are controlled through lockout-tagout methods.
- Report any unsafe conditions or unsafe acts.
- Report defect in any equipment or protective device.
- Ensure that the required protective equipment is used for the assigned tasks.
- Attend all required health, safety and environmental training.
- Report any accidents/incidents to supervisor.
- Assist in investigating accidents/incidents. Qualifications E

📌 Technical Quality Specialist (Cambridge)
🏢 ATS Automation Tooling Systems
📍 Cambridge