Systems Designer

Role overview

System expertise and analysis

• Learn customer processes and become the local expert supporting system design, integration, and verification.
• Prepare component- and system-level analyses or studies, including structural integrity, functional capability, drive sizing, accuracy, Gauge R&R, pressure, flow, heat transfer, and compliance with codes and standards.
• Prepare or assist with FMEAs, safety risk assessments, ALARA reports, installation and commissioning plans, operating sequences, storyboards, and operating and maintenance manuals.

Requirements and verification

• Compile and document design requirements and technical or functional specifications; flow customer and industry requirements down to the machine design.
• Prepare vendor technical specifications and coordinate acceptance testing and equipment buy-off at vendor sites.
• Plan verification using tools such as verification matrices and evaluate drawings and specifications for conformance.
• Verify requirements through analysis, calculations, simulations, proof-of-principle testing, design validation, factory acceptance testing, and site acceptance testing.
• Plan and execute acceptance tests with customers, including test plans and necessary mock-ups, fixtures, and test equipment.

Project technical leadership

• Prepare or support project design plans and perform design activities in accordance with them.
• Coordinate engineering work, solve technical problems, and support system startup, integration, and buy-off.
• Lead or participate in customer, vendor, and internal design reviews.
• Support technical risk mitigation, including concept technical risk assessments and proof-of-principle testing.
• Guide design teams in meeting project technical requirements and improving quality, cost, and delivery.

Compensation and benefits

• Pay rate is $32.69–$44.95 per hour, with eligibility for an annual incentive bonus.
• Benefits include a stock purchase plan, three weeks of vacation, health care benefits, a $600 health care spending account, engagement events, and employee development programs.

About ATS

Requirements

• Learn and understand the customer's technology and process to become the subject matter expert for the equipment or system.
• Define and document system requirements and validate system capability against customer and industry requirements.
• Prepare component- and system-level analyses, calculations, or studies, including applicable codes and standards compliance.
• Prepare or assist with technical project documents such as FMEAs, safety risk assessments, installation and commissioning plans, and operating manuals.
• Support technical execution and risk mitigation while coordinating with customers, vendors, and internal project teams.