Controls Technician

Job Number: 48370 
Group: Cosma International  
Division: Formet Industries 
Job Type: Permanent/Regular 
Location: ST. THOMAS 

Group Description

Cosma provides a comprehensive range of body, chassis and engineering solutions to global customers. Through our robust product engineering, outstanding tooling capabilities and diverse process expertise, we continue to bring lightweight and innovative products to market.

Role Summary

To increase uptime, throughput, efficiency and quality, through the process of maintaining, designing, developing and continuously improving our equipment and the utilization of technology to ensure the best quality frames are produced.

Key Qualifications/Requirements

• Completion of an Electrical/Electronics Engineering Technician course or equivalent from a community or recognized college program consisting of two years or more and/or
• Certificate of Qualification in a Formet recognized trade

Key Responsibilities

• Perform all duties and promote themselves in a manner that reflects Formet Expectations and Formet’s Visions/Values through Magna’s Employee Charter.
• Follow and abide by all government, Legal, Magna and Formet rules and regulations
• Contribute to continuous improvement and cost reduction activities.
• Builds, services, maintains, repairs, installs and tests new or existing equipment or tooling, and verifies conformance to specifications.
• Troubleshooting of process problems and completes quality improvements as required to maintain part standards of quality.
• Maintain safety standards of equipment and work area and perform all duties in a safe manner in accordance with the safety policies of Formet.
• Co-ordinate activities of apprentices, helpers and assigned contractors.
• Assists in developing and/or updating preventive maintenance procedures.
• Continuous Improvement Development 
• Conduct all activities in a professional manner and positive attitude with emphasis on personal responsibility. 
• Interact with the team members running the line to look for improvements or ideas to improve your/their job/task and improve line Safety, Quality and Productivity.
• Preventative maintenance on Equipment – identify weakness in design and implement improvements. Take pride in workmanship and when performing skilled work develop procedures to educate and train other team members performing the same work. 
• Evaluate and improve our processes for uptime and repeatability.
• Evaluate downtime situations for root cause and suggest/implement improvements in conjunction with Production Team Members. (Resolve the issue once root cause has been established / Joint decision production and maintenance)
• Evaluate potential risks to similar processes and develop work orders and plans to resolve issue.
• Interact with the team members running the line to look for improvements or ideas to improve your/their job/task and improve line Safety, Quality and Productivity.
• Preventative maintenance on Equipment – identify weakness in design and implement improvements. Take pride in workmanship and when performing skilled work develop procedures to educate and train other team members performing the same work. Note – Monitor progress of repair to ensure problem is resolved.
• Program and trouble shoot Fanuc Robots and Lincoln Power Sources and understand the grounding circuit of a Robotic weld cell. 
• Install, align, dismantle and move stationary industrial machinery and mechanical equipment. 
• Operate hoisting and lifting devices such as cranes, jacks and tractors to position machinery and parts during the installation, set-up and repair of machinery.
• Perform other duties as designated.

Additional Information

Accommodations for disabilities in relation to the job selection process are available upon request.

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