Innovation Engineer
Job Description
Position: Innovation Engineer
Duration: 1 year contract on-going contract, renewed annually
Pay Rate: $35-40/hr depending on years of experience
Must Haves:
- Bachelor of Science in Engineering
- 3+ years of engineering and manufacturing experience
- Experience in innovation, needs to have at least one of the below:
- 3D Printing
- AI vision
- Advanced robotics
- AGV’s/AMR’s
- Digitalization
Day to Day:
Act as the lead innovation engineer. This team is responsible for delivering the annual corporate innovation objectives. The innovation pillars that this that this engineer will support are digitalization, data analytics, advanced robotics, AI vision, 3D printing and AGV’s/AMR’s.
- Leading and supporting weekly meetings
- Tracking and reporting out program objectives
- Supporting engineers in the plant with innovation and supporting project planning efforts
- Supporting engineers in the plant helping them correctly add and update projects in web based innovation project tracking system
- Attend industry benchmarking events, training sessions and workshops that come up through the year.
- Creating and updating plans and documents to help our plant achieve some of the new objectives, action plans, training plans, versatility sheets etc.
- Help advertise the exciting innovation efforts across internal and external stakeholders, newsletters, social media posts, plant floor innovation kiosk
- Running point on idea sessions monthly. Facilitate and capture ideas in the meeting with plant personal
- Surveying existing workstations in the plant for adoption readiness. 50% surveyed by end of Q1, 90% by Q2 etc. help support this effort
- Deployment of corporate innovation solutions at the plant, general support
- Tracking how much of the overall investment in the plant was related to innovation
- Contribute to capacity uplift project. Working on bringing in some new equipment. The engineers in a couple of departments could use support in with planning and later on with some run-off and implementation work.