Junior Systems Designer

Role overview

Subject matter expertise

• Learn customer processes and become a local expert to support machine and system design, integration, and verification.
• Prepare component- and system-level analysis, calculations, or studies, including structural integrity, functional capability, drive sizing, accuracy, pressure, flow, and heat transfer.
• Prepare or assist with failure analyses, safety risk assessments, ALARA reports, commissioning plans, operating sequences, storyboards, and operating and maintenance manuals.

Requirements and verification

• Document design requirements and technical or functional specifications and flow customer and industry requirements down to the system level.
• Prepare vendor technical specifications and coordinate with suppliers on critical equipment, acceptance testing, and buy-off.
• Plan verification using tools such as a Verification Matrix and evaluate drawings and specifications for conformance.
• Support verification through calculations, simulations, proof-of-principle tests, design validation, factory acceptance, and site acceptance testing.
• Prepare acceptance test plans, arrange test support equipment and mock-ups, and execute tests with customers.

Project technical leadership

• Support project technical leads with design-plan preparation and execution, problem-solving, and engineering coordination.
• Provide project support during system startup, integration, and buy-off.
• Lead or participate in design reviews with customers, vendors, and internal design groups.
• Support technical risk mitigation, including concept technical risk assessments and proof-of-principle testing.
• Contribute to improvements in quality, cost, and delivery.

Pay and benefits

• The posted pay rate is $32.69 to $44.95 per hour.
• The posting lists an annual incentive bonus, stock purchase plan, three weeks of vacation, health benefits, a $600 health care spending account, employee events, and development programs.

About ATS

Requirements

• Learn and understand customer and industry requirements, applicable codes and standards, and the technical aspects of assigned projects.
• Support definition and documentation of design requirements and technical or functional specifications.
• Prepare or assist with engineering analysis, calculations, studies, and technical project documentation.
• Contribute to requirements verification through engineering drawing and specification reviews, analysis, simulations, and testing.
• Support preparation and execution of acceptance tests with customers.
• Participate in project engineering coordination, design reviews, and technical risk mitigation.