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"The details are not the details. They make the design."
— Charles Eames
Product Designer - Mechatronics - Paris & Cambridge
Tigercat | Macdonald Steel • Cambridge, Canada 🇨🇦
The Product Designer will create detailed designs and develop prototypes for mechanical systems, ensuring they meet performance and safety standards. They will also collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate designs into production and conduct tests to validate designs.
Responsibilities
- Create detailed designs, perform calculations, and develop prototypes for mechanical systems, ensuring they meet performance, safety, and industry standards
- Develop electro-hydraulic, computer-controlled systems integrating hydraulic components, sensors, input devices, and control logic to directly, remotely, automatically, or autonomously control mobile machines
- Create efficient and user friendly interface systems for operators and service technicians
- Analyze and select appropriate materials and components based on mechanical properties, cost, and suitability for manufacturing processes
- Collaborate and work closely with cross-functional teams including designers/engineers, manufacturing, and quality control, to ensure seamless integration of designs into production
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechatronics or Mechanical Engineering preferred
- Previous design experience within similar industries to forestry
- Strong understanding of machine design fundamentals, mechanics, machine control theory, sensor technologies, remote control, and autonomous control systems
- Solid understanding of engineering principles, control logic, mobile computer systems, user interfaces, low power electrical design, and mobile hydraulic systems
Key Skills
- 3D modeling (SolidWorks)
- Strong mechanical aptitude
- Problem-solving skills
Benefits
- Family-Oriented Company: Lots of social events, BBQ’s, pizza parties and more!
- Competitive Wages and Profit Sharing
- RRSP Matching Program
- Skills Development and Training Reimbursement
- Company-Paid Healthcare Benefits and EAP
About Tigercat | Macdonald Steel
Tigercat and TCi timber harvesting systems, material processing solutions and industrial equipment for the toughest applications.
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