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Automation Systems Designer
@ JENOPTIK AG
Barrie, Ontario
Overview
Prodomax Automation Ltd. is hiring an Automation Systems Designer at Intermediate or Senior level in Barrie, Ontario, reporting to the Mechanical Design Manager. The role covers automation cell and system layouts, guarding and safety system design, and component specification, with 2+ years (Intermediate) or 5+ years (Senior) of plant or manufacturing experience. Salary is $70,000 to $95,000 with benefits and performance bonuses.
Pay:
$70,000–$95,000 a year
Responsibilities:
- Provide systems layouts for automated cells and systems
- Design guarding, electrical and fluid power hardware
- Perform safety systems analysis and design
- Specify and purchase project components
- Coordinate with multidisciplinary teams
Requirements summary:
- Engineering degree or engineering technologist/technician
- 2+ years plant or manufacturing experience (Intermediate)
- 5+ years plant or manufacturing experience (Senior)
- Proficiency in AutoCAD and SolidWorks
- Excellent written and verbal communication
Tools & skills
Benefits mentioned
Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-10-06
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-09
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-01
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Job details
| Seniority | Mid level |
| Department | Engineering |
| Experience | 2+ years |
| Work setting | Office, Plant or factory |
| Position | Sitting and standing |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Education | College diploma (preferred), Bachelor’s degree (preferred) |
| Fields of study | Engineering, Engineering Technology |
| Perks mentioned | Retirement plan, Performance bonus |
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JENOPTIK AG
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Jenoptik – MORE LIGHT. We are a company where bright ideas are born. Changing the world with light demands for an exploring spirit. Discover challenges the world is facing, at Jenoptik you change the world. 💡PHOTONICS: Optical technologies are at the heart of our business. Explore the variety of our photonics-based products and services: We’re on Mars with NASA. We’re behind the quality of your smartphone camera lenses. We enable smart manufacturing with laser & metrology solutions customized to your manufacturing environment. We make roads and communities safer. 🚀MARKETS: Our key target markets primarily include the semiconductor equipment industry, electronics, life science and medical technology, metrology as well as smart mobility incl. road traffic safety and civil security. 🌎LOCATIONS: The Jenoptik Group headquarters are in Jena, Thuringia, Germany. Next to our major sites in Germany, we maintain production and assembly sites in the USA, France, the United Kingdom and Asia-Pacific. 🌳SUSTAINABILITY: Together with our customers, we create forward-looking trends in the fields of energy efficiency, healthcare, the environment, mobility, and safety. With our products we can make significant contributions to meeting the societal challenges we face as well as to the conservation and efficient use of resources. 🌈INCLUSION: As an international company with about 4,600 employees, we are aware of our responsibility to create an appreciative and unprejudiced working environment and support diversity, equity and inclusion in our teams. We are committed to increasing the number of international und female managers in our company and signed the “Charta der Vielfalt”, an employer initiative for diversity, in 2020. Grow with leading and bright ideas. Become a JENIUS. Impressum, Legal Notice: https://www.jenoptik.com/legal-notice
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Jenoptik – MORE LIGHT. We are a company where bright ideas are born. Changing the world with light demands for an exploring spirit. Discover challenges the world is facing, at Jenoptik you change the world. 💡PHOTONICS: Optical technologies are at the heart of our business. Explore the variety of our photonics-based products and services: We’re on Mars with NASA. We’re behind the quality of your smartphone camera…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing |
| Company size | 1,001-5,000 employees |
| Headquarters | Jena, Thüringen |
| Organization type | Public Company |
| Year founded | 1991 |
| Specialties | photonicsmicroopticsoptoelectronicslife scienceshealthcarediagnosticsdigital imagingautomationlasersmetrology |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 10 |
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Prodomax Automation Ltd. is currently seeking an AUTOMATION SYSTEMS DESIGNER - INTERMEDIATE/SENIOR to join our team.
Located in Barrie, Ontario, Prodomax is a specialized industrial engineering firm focused on designing complex automation with a blue-chip customer base since 1971. Operating from two facilities totaling 200,000 square feet with 200+ employees; we are ISO 9001:2015 certified.
The Opportunity
The Automation Systems Designer - Intermediate/Senior will provide systems and services layouts to the production team and will report directly to the Mechanical Design Manager in Barrie.
Your level within the role will be determined by the skills and experience you bring when taking on this exciting career opportunity. Responsibilities are noted as you progress within the role.
INTERMEDIATE:
Job Summary:
The Automation systems Designer– Intermediate will provide systems and services layouts to the production team and will report directly to the Mechanical Design Manager in Barrie.
Job Responsibilities:
- Provide systems layouts for small to medium automated cells and systems
- Provide detailed designs for guarding, electrical and fluid power distribution hardware
- Perform safety systems analysis and provide designs for those systems
- Interpret and create mechanical drawings and plans
- Understand safety regulations and codes and apply them as required to layouts and designs
- Specify and purchase components for a project
- Coordinate with multidiscipline teams, take direction from others and five direction to others as required for each unique project
- Complete knowledge of AutoCAD and exposure to Solidworks
Job Qualifications:
- Engineering Degree or Engineering Technologist/Technician
- 2+ years of direct working experience with plant systems or other manufacturing processes
- Experience with SolidWorks, AutoCAD, Microsoft Word, Teams, PowerPoint, and Excel
- Professionalism in interactions with all stakeholders – both written and verbal
- Aptitude to adopt new technologies and minimize reliance on error-prone manual processes
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
- Strong judgement skills
- Ability to identify opportunities to refine and implement new processes and systems
- Commitment to meet deadlines to deadlines
Growth Focus: Demonstrate technical leadership by identifying design efficiencies and taking a lead role in project scoping, preparing to move from execution to high-level conceptual design. Works towards a Senior level position.
SENIOR
Job Summary:
The Automation Systems Designer – Senior will provide systems and services layouts to the production team and will report directly to the Mechanical Design Manager in Barrie.
Job Responsibilities:
- Provide systems layouts for small, medium, and larger automated cells and systems
- Provide detailed designs for guarding, electrical and fluid power distribution hardware
- Perform safety systems analysis and provide designs for those systems
- Interpret and create mechanical drawings and plans
- Understand safety regulations and codes and apply them as required to layouts and designs
- Specify and purchase components for a project
- Coordinate with multidiscipline teams, take direction from others and give direction to others as required for each unique project
- Complete knowledge of AutoCAD and SolidWorks
- Mentor and lead junior designers
Job Qualifications:
- Engineering Degree or Engineering Technologist/Technician
- 5+ years of direct working experience with plant systems or other manufacturing processes
- Experience with SolidWorks, AutoCAD, Microsoft Word, Teams, PowerPoint, and Excel
- Professionalism in interactions with all stakeholders – both written and verbal
- Aptitude to adopt new technologies and minimize reliance on error-prone manual processes
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
- Strong judgement skills
- Ability to identify opportunities to refine and implement new processes and systems
- Commitment to meet deadlines to deadlines
Qualifications, skills and abilities
What we offer:
Competitive Annual Compensation: *$70,000.00 - $95,000.00
*The actual compensation a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.
Comprehensive benefits: including RRSP matching and healthcare spending account.
Performance-based bonuses tied to organizational performance and your success in achieving annual project goals set/reviewed annually with your Supervisor.
Environment: A collaborative, high-tech culture where creativity and data-driven decision-making are celebrated.
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