Do you love to compete? Are you hungry for achievement? Are you an ‘A’ player? Do you want to work with other ‘A’ players? For a company where culture is nurtured and managed as a critical source of advantage? Where every employee knows and cares about direction and strategy?
AML Oceanographic has clocked average annual growth of more than 20% over the past 8 years. How? Most importantly, we’ve built a team that provides outstanding service and truly cares about our customers. AML has a market reputation for two things:
- Going to the ends of the earth to make our customers successful, and
- Bringing fresh ideas to an established market
We manufacture ocean sensing solutions – sensors, instrumentation, and deployment systems (marine deck equipment) – for business and government customers on all seven continents. As a hi-tech business, our technical team includes experts and engineers with experience in the acoustic, mechanical, electrical, software, and embedded software domains. We operate from locations at either end of Canada: Halifax (Dartmouth) on the Atlantic Coast, and Victoria on the Pacific Coast.
At AML, we do things a bit differently. Think daily huddles. Think Rockefeller Habits, Scaling Up, and the One Page Plan. Think town hall meetings with on-the-fly question & answer sessions. If you are familiar with these concepts - or they interest you - then you might be a fit for AML.
The successful applicant for this role will be joining AML’s multidisciplinary Engineering team. AML’s product line includes the development and manufacture of oceanographic instruments and sensors, as well as marine deck equipment (winches). AML’s Engineering team is tasked with the creation and expansion of this product line - Product Development - as well as the support and improvement of Operations - Operations Engineering.
This position is based in Halifax, NS. While some of the role may be done remotely, the position requires attendance in the office at least 3 days a week.
Mission of the role: Design it. Build it. Grow it.
Accountabilities
- The design and support of electrical systems and PCBs with an emphasis on design for manufacturing (DFM) and design for testing (DFT).
- Provide support to the Operations Group in the Electrical and Electromechanical domains.
- Lead failure analysis with a focus on improving PCB yield and long term product reliability.
- Help create and manage PCB Quality Assurance processes, ensuring products manufactured by the Operations teams are guaranteed perfect.
- Translate product requirements into actionable electrical specifications, including PCB design, power distribution, ancillary sensors, etc. Develop project scopes and plans.
- Manage multi-disciplinary engineering projects to ensure they’re delivered on time, budget, and with zero issues.
- Participate in peer review of designs; provide and receive effective feedback.
- Apply root-cause analysis and resolve Electrical Non-conformances (NC’s) as they arise.
Requirements
- 5+ years professional experience related to design of electronic circuits.
- Degree in Electrical Engineering or comparable field or experience.
- Intermediate knowledge of hardware design, schematic capture, PCB layout, troubleshooting.
- Experience with Altium (PCB design software); designing multi-layer PCBs
- Knowledge of embedded systems, SOCs, FPGAs, MCUs, as well as analog circuits.
- Troubleshooting component-level issues on PCBs. Ability to resolve problems timely and thoroughly.
- Ability to understand hardware and firmware as a complete system including ability to test, validate, and troubleshoot holistically.
- Experience with repository and version control best practices.
Considered an asset
- Working knowledge of industrial control equipment such as PLCs, VFDs, actuators, and sensors.
- Familiarity with Linux, SOCs, and embedded systems.
- Ability to to hand solder circuit boards, including 0402 components.
- Experience working with a multidisciplinary product development team
- Scrum / agile product design methodology.
Company culture is paramount and we’re looking for like-minded individuals to join our team.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Dental care
- Extended health care
- Paid time off
- Vision care
Schedule:
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Halifax, NS B3B 1S8: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)
Education:
- Bachelor's Degree (preferred)