Position: Production Engineering
Location: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada ( fully on-premises position )
Experience: 2+ years
Company Overview:
Skygauge has reinvented the drone to perform work not possible with drones today. Our drone conducts ultrasonic thickness tests from the air and performs inspections 5-10x faster while workers remain safely on the ground. Our patented thrust-vectoring technology is being applied to other applications like painting, cleaning, sanding, and more.
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Job Summary: This is a full-time on-site Production Engineering role located at our HQ in Hamilton. At Skygauge, you will optimize and create manufacturing processes, ensure product quality, and drive insights for new product development. You will be responsible for maintaining a six sigma program for process improvement, collaborating with the R&D team on quality, efficiency, and design improvements, and optimize our growing production team.
About You:
You are ready and willing to work in a start-up environment. You are a high performance, motivated and self-directed individual. You are confident in your skills, communicate well, and able to quickly learn new skills as they are needed. You know how to ask for help, use your resources, and work ruthlessly as a problem solver to get to your goal.
Required Skills:
- Strong teamwork and communication skills.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Strong safety mindset and process-orientation.
- 2+ years of testing and production experience.
- Experience working in small teams.
- Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma knowledge.
Preferred Skills:
- Aerospace or drone industry experience.
- Experience with robotics hardware principles, assembly, and troubleshooting.
- Experience with Python.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and improve drone manufacturing processes.
- Ensure, monitor, and enhance product quality.
- Collaborate with R&D for product iterations.
- Document processes and work instructions.
- Develop new processes and train production team.
- Identify cost reduction and process improvement opportunities.
Other Requirements:
- Valid driver's license.
- Willing to work in-person with our team at the Skygauge HQ.
