Maintenance Engineer

Group Introduction

Advancing mobility. Making automotive technology that is smarter, cleaner, and safer, while still fun to drive. And making it for everyone. That’s what we’re passionate about at Magna Powertrain. We do it by creating world-class powertrain solutions for conventional, hybrid, and pure electric vehicles. We’re making electrification more than a buzzword, we’re bringing it to the road. Innovation is what drives us and we drive innovation. Dream big and create the future of mobility at Magna Powertrain.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Mechanical Engineering Degree or equivalent
• Minimum 3 years experience in automotive manufacturing environment as a Mechanical or Manufacturing Engineer or equivalent related experience
• Previous supervisory experience in a manufacturing environment considered an asset
• Knowledge of hydraulics, pneumatics and electrical components would be considered an asset
• Proven problem solving ability
• Able to read blueprints
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills (including Word, Excel and PowerPoint) and ERP system
• Ability to work independently and to accommodate flexible shift patterns
• Working knowledge of Safety Legislations
• Exceptional organizational and interpersonal skills
• Must be creative and exercise significant initiative
• Excellent English communication skills, both written and verbal
• Must be a team player with the ability to interact with people at all levels across all departments
• Valid driver’s license required

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Create, update, maintain and work to a scheduled preventative maintenance plan
• Support Maintenance Manager to ensure that qualified human resources, repair/replacement supplies, and facility or equipment access agreements are planned sufficiently in advance of preventative maintenance events
• Pass on information, experiences, knowledge and best practices to other maintenance employees with regards to equipment repair, preventative maintenance, problem solving, etc.
• Support Maintenance Manager to deploy, train, coach, monitor your resources to ensure that the required levels of quality and quantity of workmanship are adhered to
• Ensure that all activities under your jurisdiction are planned and performed in a safe and law abiding manner
• Analyze repair reports from both preventative and breakdown teams, along with feedback from the wider MSM operation community, and update equipment/facility work plans to support the transition of reactive tasks to predictive and preventive tasks.
• Ensure that an effective preventive and predictive maintenance system is in place and is clearly understood by the members of the Maintenance team
• Maintain documentation on all equipment, building infrastructure, etc. such as machine manuals, electric circuit diagrams, hydraulic-pneumatic circuit diagrams, assembly drawings, spare part lists, preventative / predictive work orders / instructions
• Support Maintenance Manager with equipment downtime and equipment related cost reports in order to focus on cost reduction
• Participate in benchmarking of new tooling and equipment
• Assist Maintenance Manager with monthly budget
• Support Maintenance Manager to develop strategic short and long term maintenance plans
• Support the development of Maintenance specific and non specific work instructions exist
• Ensure effective, non-repetitive problem solving that results in updates to the preventative maintenance system targeted at eliminating repeat failures
• Support participation in 8D’s, Non-conformance Systems. Special teams, etc.
• Ensure full compliance with relevant trade standards of best practice in all work carried out by the team improvements
• Ensure that plant efficiency is maintained at the highest possible level, without sacrificing safety, quality or cost standards
• Provide adherence to MSM systems as required
• Support Environmental initiatives related to ISO 14001
• Support CI initiatives of the manufacturing team
• May be required to perform other duties as assigned by Maintenance Manager or his/her designees
• Actively and positively support the continued practice of Core Values behaviours
• Initiate and embrace company change