Location: Cambridge, ON, CA, N3H 4R7

Mechanical Design Manager 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 Rate : $124,000 - $170,500

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 treat day, etc.)

Employee Development Programs

Specific Responsibilities

Assess workload, update, and forecast labor loading, assign staff to engineering projects and oversee the completion of drawings according to specific deadlines and project schedules.

Review project schedules and ensure detailed design plans match schedule and budget requirements on a timely basis to ensure the mechanical automation engineering portion of projects are completed on time and take corrective action, coordinating with other departments as required.





Provide engineering expertise for projects progressing through the manufacturing and system installation stages to overcome and correct problems and technical difficulties.

Critique and approve all respective design work under their charge.

Conduct/oversee employee performance evaluations recommend salary adjustments, and initiate personnel actions such as promotions, transfers, discharges, and disciplinary measures for staff reporting to him/her.

Encourage and mentor direct employees to ensure that departmental morale and efficiency are maintained at the highest level. Conduct regular 1:1 with Group leads and direct reports

Support employee training by analyzing needs on an annual basis using the training matrix

Based on business goals and annual growth, establish resource requirements skills and organizational needs that will sustain adequate capacity and leadership within the department.

Coach team members on ABM processes, A3s, RCAs, cost benefit analysis, process development

Lead regular team meetings

Prioritize resources to ensure all work is achieved. Work closely with Engineering Group Leads to ensure resources are properly deployed.

Deploy Visual Management tools for Engineering Team (i.e., Control Board)

Develop & deploy Team KPIs (Safety, Quality, Delivery, Productivity, Cost, and Employee Engagement)





Measure departmental KPI results and rework and develop improvement plans where required.

Set objectives on a yearly basis that align with business unit objectives and track progress throughout the year on those objectives.

Provide engineering expertise for projects progressing through the manufacturing and system installation stages to overcome and correct problems and technical difficulties.

Provide technical support to the Applications and Sales departments when quoting current business.

Interview and select applicants on their technical qualifications and suitability for positions in the department when hiring new personnel.

Support the business unit quality system by maintaining quality procedures, job descriptions, and responding to NCR’s and CAR’s.

Measure departmental throughput and rework and develop improvement plans where required.

Support employee training and development by assessing specific employee needs on an annual basis minimally.

With the Director, collaborate on developing a departmental budget on an annual basis.

Develop outside contractors in anticipation of overload situations.

Maintain a co-operative working relationship with your counterparts in other ATS business units

Advocate and foster a team environment within both the department and throughout the business unit.

Hold departmental communications meetings on a regular basis (minimum once per quarter).

Emphasize continuous improvement as a long-term goal and implement procedures and programs to achieve continuous improvement in this area.

Recommend and enforce design and engineering procedures and standard practices to comply with industry

📌 Mechanical Design Manager (Cambridge)
🏢 ATS Automation Tooling Systems
📍 Cambridge