Prototype Shop Technician - 3 Month Term

New Flyer • Winnipeg, MB

1d • Onsite

About The Position

New Flyer is North America's heavy-duty transit bus leader and offers the most advanced product line under the Xcelsior® and Xcelsior CHARGE® brands. It also offers infrastructure development through NFI Infrastructure Solutions™, a service dedicated to providing safe, sustainable, and reliable charging and mobility solutions. Further information is available at www.newflyer.com.

POSITION GOAL: Design, build, and test products to meet the present and future needs of “NFIL” as directed by the Director of New Product Development.

Requirements

• Post-secondary certificate or technology degree.
• 3-5 years of relevant experience
• Ability to read contractions drawings, schematics, details drawings.
• Knowledge of engineering drawings, design, aesthetic, and ergonomic principals.
• Knowledge of warehouse and inventory systems, scientific test methods, FMEA, maintenance, lean manufacturing, continuous improvement

Responsibilities

• Construction of prototype parts, assemblies, and installations, working from drawings, sketches, verbal instruction.
• Provide feedback to engineering on drawings, designs, and theories of operation, understand and navigate BOM and engineering drawing systems.
• Working with hand and power tools, fabrication equipment and test equipment, some lifting and climbing required.
• Operation of heavy equipment such as forklift or bus.
• Write reports and test documentation, use of PC, Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.
• Set-up and perform tests from a requested plan; emerging technology.
• Knowledge transfer from NPD shop various departments.
• Shop maintenance and cleaning.
• Other duties as requested

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree