Design automated systems and program PLCs as an Automation Engineer with LAPORTE in a hybrid Canadian office location. Apply industrial automation expertise to complex projects.
This Automation Engineer position supports project management, automation design, programming, testing, and commissioning. You will define customer needs, select controls and instrumentation, prepare specifications, plans, and estimates, and collaborate with interdisciplinary teams. The work serves pharmaceutical, food and beverage, industrial biotechnology, and industrial manufacturing sectors.
Key Responsibilities: Define customer needs and design automated systems
Select controls, instrumentation, motor controls, and panels
Program PLCs and user interfaces
Manage planning, budgets, schedules, resources,



and change control
Participate in system testing and commissioning
Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in automated production or electrical engineering
Qualified Engineering Association membership in Alberta or British Columbia
Five to six years of industrial automation experience
Knowledge of Allen Bradley, Rockwell, and Siemens products
Flexibility for client and manufacturing site visits
Bring automation design, PLC programming, and project management expertise to LAPORTE’s engineering work across Canadian locations.

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📌 Industrial Automation Project Engineer (British Columbia)
🏢 LAPORTE L.E.C.
📍 British Columbia