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ABB Installation Products Division (formerly Thomas&Betts),is the number one manufacturer of electrification products in North America with a 125-year history of providing innovation and customer- focused solutions for connecting and protecting electrical systems, as well as a unique differentiated medium voltage offering. Our products are used all around you, every day – orbiting the earth, working on Mars, on the fastest trains we ride, in the fastest cars of the world, crossing oceans, in factories producing your food, in the tallest buildings of the world, in the most modern hotels and in the walls of your home. With a portfolio of more than 200,000 products marketed under more than 38 premium brand names, our Division offerings are found wherever electricity is used.
You will participate in the execution of the local and regional manufacturing process automation strategies of the ELIP division. You will be fully responsible for a first major project for your manufacturing site, in addition to being part of an inter-factory team of experts who will work on a project common to all sites. The foundations of this team will be based on collaboration, sharing of best practices and knowledge, in order to achieve the common objectives, as well as those of each manufacturing site. Contribute to operational excellence by driving the effective use of new technologies and automated solutions!
Your responsibilities

• Search for various robotization or automation options within ABB, as well as externally.
• Participate in the testing and commissioning of the systems.
• Use and improve the internal working methods and procedures.
• Carry out the technology watch.
• Collaborate with members of other disciplines, as well as with the person in charge of the inter-factory experts team.
• Manage the projects from planning to implementation and evaluation of the effectiveness of the solutions, while ensuring change management with all stakeholders, risk assessment in collaboration with the HSE team, follow-up with the suppliers, and coaching of the subcontractors.
• Define the project and objectives, whether for the automation of material movement (AGV/AMR), the use of COBOT, or the implementation of bin picking.
• Draw up specifications and plans.
• Analyze and present the most robust solutions, including costs, internal and external resources, timetable.
• Design automated systems and select hardware (control, instrumentation, motor controls, control panel design, etc.), and/or program automatons and user interfaces.

Your background

• Be available to travel in the Montreal and South Shore area.
• Be goal-oriented.
• Demonstrate curiosity, innovation, initiative, and team spirit.
• Have appropriate experience in the design of electrical diagrams and circuits in the industrial field.
• 1-2 years of experience in the field of industrial automation.
• Bachelor's degree in robotics engineering or automated production, or equivalent.
• Communication skills, bilingualism is an asset.
• Have experience in programming automatons.
• Knowledge of AutoCad Electrical (asset).

Benefits

• Healthcare plan
• Accident insurance
• Wellbeing program
• Retirement plan

More about us
We look forward to receiving your application. If you want to discover more about ABB, take another look at our website www.abb.com.
For the 8th year in a row, ABB Canada has been recognized as one of Canada’s top employers by Forbes Magazine. Also named as Canada's Top 100 Employers, Montreal's Top Employers, Canada's Top Employers for Young People, Canada’s Greenest Employers and in 2021 Best Candidate Experience Award (CandE Award), ABB's culture and commitment are to provide a caring workplace where everyone collaborates, feels valued, respected, included and supported. Also committed to ensuring that all policies and practices respect the Employment Equity Program, we aim for our workforce to be truly representative of the four designated groups; women, aboriginal people, members of visible minorities, and/or persons with disabilities. ABB will provide reasonable accommodation to the applicant with disabilities and encourage applicants to self-identify in the application process.

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