Posted 3 months ago
Equipment Efficiency Applications Engineer
@ Eclipse Automation
Cambridge, Ontario
Overview
Eclipse Automation is hiring an Equipment Efficiency Applications Engineer in Cambridge, ON, on-site, full-time, at $95,000 to $120,000. The role ensures machines meet promised performance from proposal through handover, reviewing RFQs, validating OEE and cycle time buy-off criteria, and running quality and continuous improvement work. Travel to Eclipse locations is expected to be under 20% of the time.
Responsibilities:
- Review customer RFQs and proposals for technical risk and feasibility
- Validate OEE and cycle time buy-off criteria against the ATP
- Lead quality investigations and corrective or preventive actions via NCR and CAR
- Perform internal audits against the Eclipse Quality Management System
- Apply Lean and Six Sigma to reduce waste and cycle time
Requirements summary:
- University degree or college diploma in applied science or engineering, or related experience
- Minimum 10 years in custom automation with hands-on integration
- Strong quality assurance and quality management system experience
- Experience with ISO 9001, CSA N299, GAMP, TSSA or NQA-1 is an asset
- NVIDIA Isaac Sim experience is an asset
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-08-03
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-14
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-14
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | Engineering |
| Experience | 10+ years |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Travel | air: minimal · ground: minimal |
| 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 | Applied science, Engineering |
| Perks mentioned | Generous paid time off, Retirement plan, Tuition support |
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Eclipse Automation
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We design and build precision machines for modern manufacturing. Automation that delivers speed, reliability & results.
Full company description
Eclipse builds precision machines for manufacturing. We design systems that improve speed, consistency, and output. Our work solves technical problems that require accuracy and reliability. We design, integrate, and deliver equipment that runs correctly and lasts. Each system supports essential production across medical, energy, transportation, food, and consumer sectors. We focus on what matters. Machines that perform. Lines that stay active. Outcomes that improve. We are engineers who build with care and purpose. Eclipse helps manufacturers reach higher performance with fewer risks. Where factory automation is going. Talk to us about your next challenge. Let’s build what’s next together.
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- 130 Thompson Drive, Cambridge, ON N1T 2E5, CA
- 1510 Cedar Line Dr, Rock Hill, South Carolina 29730, US
- Lahner György U. 14th, Veszprém, Veszprém 8200 , HU
- Maximilianplatz 22, Munich, Bavaria 80333, DE
- Business categories
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- Other recorded names
- Eclipse Automation
- Specialties
- Automation
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- Life Sciences
- Machining
- Transportation
- Maintenance
- and Integrated Automation Software
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Eclipse builds precision machines for manufacturing. We design systems that improve speed, consistency, and output. Our work solves technical problems that require accuracy and reliability. We design, integrate, and deliver equipment that runs correctly and lasts. Each system supports essential production across medical, energy, transportation, food, and consumer sectors. We focus on what matters. Machines that…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Automation Machinery Manufacturing |
| Company size | 501-1,000 employees |
| Headquarters | Cambridge, ON |
| Organization type | Public Company |
| Year founded | 2001 |
| Specialties | AutomationCustom ManufacturingDesignProject ManagementLife SciencesMachiningTransportationMaintenanceand Integrated Automation Software |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 77 |
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Job Title: Equipment Efficiency Applications Engineer
Location: Cambridge, ON | On-site
Job Type: Full-time
Compensation: $95,000 - $120,000
Benefits: RRSP, health/dental/vision package, reimbursement for tuition and professional dues, paid vacation, personal days, and sick days
The Position:
The Equipment Efficiency Applications Engineer ensures machines meet their promised performance from proposal through handover, safeguarding schedules, budgets, and contractual commitments. Acting as the technical guardian of equipment performance and risk, this role translates customer requirements into practical, data-driven solutions that align design intent with shop-floor realities. They will collaborate closely with Applications Engineering, engineering managers, and project leads, providing senior technical expertise to prevent, identify, and resolve issues that could threaten schedules, budgets, or contractual compliance.
The Equipment Efficiency Applications Engineer will foster cross-functional collaboration, lead effective change, and support continuous improvement initiatives that deliver measurable gains in efficiency and quality across the organization.
What You'll Be Doing:
Equipment Efficiency SME
- Review customer RFQ’s to identify risks and opportunities
- Engage during the Proposal phase to assess technical feasibility, identify risk areas, and shape proposals with clear performance requirements and mitigation plans.
- Support Applications Engineering and project teams by reviewing designs, performing risk assessments, and recommending robust solutions that improve reliability and manufacturability.
- Validate buy-off criteria including OEE and Cycle time requirements, ensuring alignment to the Acceptance Test Plan (ATP) and production volumes provided by the customer.
- Identify technical risks and their impact on the project & mitigate their effects
- Partner with Project Managers to translate proposal-level requirements into executable plans during project kick-offs, ensuring technical acceptance criteria is understood
- Attend selected internal design reviews and verify conformance to all critical technical requirements that are specified in contract are verified prior to team seeking final customer design approval (i.e. Outgoing part quality, cycle time, OEE, customer build spec, etc.)
Quality Standards & Compliance
- Champion continuous improvement by applying Lean, Six Sigma, and related methodologies to identify and eliminate nonvalue-added activities
- Monitor and report on key quality and efficiency metrics, using data to prioritize improvement opportunities, quantify cost savings, and track year-over-year performance gains.
- Recognize problems, initiate action, assist in problem solving and evaluate results
- Investigating process related quality issues, determining the underlying causes, and implementing corrective or preventive actions to prevent recurrence leveraging the NCR and CAR processes.
- Perform internal audits to ensure compliance with the Eclipse Quality Management System
Impact and Outcomes
- Clear and compliant customer proposals that reduce downstream rework and disputes.
- Faster, more consistent roll-out of customer requirements across projects.
- Reduced cycle time and waste through targeted improvement projects, yielding cost and efficiency gains.
- Broader adoption of best practices and standardized work across facilities, improving predictability and throughput.
- Strengthened organizational capability for continuous improvement and an embedded culture of operational excellence.
Leadership:
- Promote positive relations between departments and with partners, customers, vendors, and distributors
- Recommend and administer policies and procedures to enhance operations which support continuous improvement initiatives
- Work requires professional written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work in a team environment and actively participate in group meetings safely
- Maintain good corporate citizen role in support of the Eclipse corporate Vision
- Ensure that all business activities are performed with the highest ethical standards and in compliance with the Eclipse Automation Inc. Conduct Code
- Foster the development of a culture reflective of the core values of the business
- Adhere to the Eclipse Project Operating Policy
Travel:
- Expectation of travel to Eclipse locations is less than 20% of time, however, may be exceeded in exceptional circumstances to meet organizational needs
What We're Looking For:
Education:
- Successfully completed either a University Degree or College Diploma in applied science, engineering field or related experience
Experience:
- Minimum of 10 years’ experience in custom automation including hands-on integration activity
- Strong knowledge and experience in quality assurance
- Experience in quality management systems and auditing processes
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills
- Ability to gather and analyze data
- Solid judgment with ability to make good decisions
- Strong leadership capabilities
- Strong organizational skills
- High attention to detail
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