Automation System Specialist

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Laurentide Controls is hiring an Automation System Specialist to join the region’s largest supplier of automation and reliability solutions, onsite in Bécancour, QC. You’ll develop, implement and maintain industrial control systems for partners with a focus on performance and reliability, identify future failures, and implement preventative measures and critical equipment replacements without production loss. You’ll diagnose problems with rigor, resolve interoperability issues, and act as a subject matter expert to customers and engineering teams, ensuring services meet contract and schedule while upholding safety. Qualifications include a technical degree in Electrical, Automation or Computer Science, 2 to 3 years automation experience, DCS/PLC knowledge, hardware and software know-how, and asset management. Apply by detailing concrete projects, measurable results, customer collaboration, safety training, and willingness to be onsite in Eastern Canada.

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AUTOMATION SPECIALIST

  Come join the largest supplier of automation and reliability solutions in our region. Discover what we can offer you and be the voice behind cultivating innovative ideas to Help Industry Thrive in Eastern Canada.   

Sounds Exciting? Join us

Dynamic and customer-oriented, you are part of our team of automation experts providing cutting edge new technologies to our partners. Developing, implementing and maintaining the control systems of our industrial customers, always keeping in mind the goal is to enhance the level performance and reliability.

 

WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TABLE 

• Identify future failures and put in place preventative measures to keep the plant's systems and processes performing well
• Make critical equipment replacements without loss of production 
• Identify and solve problems using rigor and intuition
• Understand and solve the sources of interoperability problems
• Find and implement robust and durable technical solutions
• Act as subject matter expert when consulting with customers and engineering teams in areas of expertise
• Resolve, trace and escalate customers critical issues
• Ensure customer satisfaction by delivering services that meet or exceeds expectations all the while adhering to the contract and schedule 
• Attend required skills and certification trainings
• Be safety conscious and ensure compliance with corporate and client safety procedures

 

ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS TO BE SUCCESSFUL 

• Technical Degree, Electrical, Automation or Computer Science with direct experience in automation and control systems 
• Equivalent of at least 2-3 years of directly‐related experience
• Automation knowledge, covering both hardware and software
• Computer and networking skills, covering both hardware and software
• Operating systems and network topologies.
• Understand process control concepts
• Experience with asset management systems
• Programming experience with modern languages
• Implementation and configuration experience of either DCS and/or PLC systems.

 

WORK LOCATION: Bécancour, QC

 

ABOUT US 

Laurentide’s purpose is To Help Industry Thrive in Eastern Canada. More than words, our values compel us to think differently, to act with integrity and to shape our future according to them. It is through Customer Centricity, Collaboration, People Matter, Hunger & Passion, Health, Safety & Environment and lastly Trust & Reliability that we:  Empower People. Advance Industry.