Factory Test Automation Lead

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the team while championing factory automation safety.
• Maintain the automation roadmap and set standards for PLCs, HMIs, software, industrial communications, data acquisition, and test system architecture.
• Standardize reusable solutions across CDU, PCL, RM, and other production lines; prioritize work by quality risk, capacity, cycle time, reliability, and return on investment.
• Manage project scope, resources, schedules, technical risks, and deployment.
• Automate factory test data capture, validation, and centralized storage for product-level traceability.
• Define test data architecture for serial numbers, results, measurements, limits, failures, timestamps, and test/software revisions.
• Integrate test equipment with databases, dashboards, MES/ERP, and other manufacturing systems.
• Collaborate with Product Quality, Production, Manufacturing Engineering, Product, Engineering, IT/Data, and Operations.

Minimum qualifications

• 10 or more years in factory automation, production automation, controls, or automated test systems.
• Experience developing, commissioning, and supporting automated equipment in manufacturing.
• Experience with PLCs, HMIs, industrial controls, sensors, instrumentation, and automated data acquisition.
• Experience supporting automated end-of-line or factory test systems in industrial manufacturing.

Preferred qualifications and skills

• Python or a similar programming language for automation, test execution, or data processing is preferred.
• SQL databases, test data storage, and MES, ERP, or quality-system integration experience are preferred.
• Familiarity with Ethernet/TCP/IP, Modbus, BACnet, or CAN is preferred.
• Familiarity with APIs, dashboards, manufacturing analytics, machine vision, robotics, motion control, or AI-enabled manufacturing is preferred.
• The role calls for safety focus, equipment reliability, data integrity, standardization, continuous improvement, analytical problem-solving, technical leadership, troubleshooting, communication, and organization.

Benefits

• Benefits include employer-paid medical and other coverage, a CAD 1,000 annual Flexible Spending Account, 2% employer-sponsored RRSP contribution, three weeks of vacation, six flex days, and a paid one-week company shutdown.
• A CAD 1,000 annual professional development allowance is provided.

Workplace

• The position is fully onsite and is not available for remote work.

Pre-employment checks