Top Benefits
About the role
Transforming the Future with Convergence of Simulation and Data Systems Engineering Practitioner Job Summary Our client in Windsor, ON is looking for a Systems Engineering Practitioner. This is a contract position.
What You Will Do This is an Information Technology Operations based role that supports our Essex Engine Plant and Windsor Engine Plant. These plants build a wide array of engines and components for multiple American Plants. These engines and components will go into our top selling products. This is an outstanding opportunity to be a member of the Site IT team and assist in reimagining how site IT lends support to the manufacturing team, as we modernize the plant floor with new technology to reduce complexity and increase efficiency. As a member of the Plant IT team, you are directly responsible for maintaining the systems that keep the production lines running. Your job responsibilities will require you to provide support that includes technical troubleshooting, data analysis & problem resolution for the applications & infrastructure that the plant uses to produce diverse products for vehicles globally. You will also lend your knowledge and experiences to support process improvement efforts toward flexible and lean manufacturing, enabling IIOT for Manufacturing and supporting the existing manufacturing execution systems within the facility. This position provides an excellent opportunity to not only expand your IT Skillset, but also to acquire manufacturing experience that will enhance your long-term career potential.
Basics
- Bachelor degree in IT, Computer Science or Bachelor of Arts with related work experience.
- A strong desire to learn manufacturing operations and business practices from an IT perspective is desired.
- Broad business and manufacturing perspective is helpful.
- Understanding of computer-based tools, computing infrastructure and interest in processes that support manufacturing is core.
- A Willingness to work in a high-pressure production environment and flexible work schedule is a foundation in this space.
- A willingness to learn and adapt to new technologies.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to multi-task; managing multiple tasks.
- Work efficiently and effectively with diverse, cross functional teams under stressful circumstances.
- Ability to communicate effectively with business users and IT professionals including globally distributed teams.
- The ability to adjust communications appropriately for the audience, work with all levels of management and diverse work groups, including globally distributed teams. Including the ability to adjust communications appropriately for the audience across all levels of management and knowledge.
- Motivated self-starter.
- Identifying, investigating & solving problems without supervision.
- Manufacturing experience is preferred, but not required.
Preferred
- Master degree in IT, Computer Science.
- Experience with Server administration; Windows (2012+) or Linux.
- Familiar with Cisco routers and switches to include basic staging, troubleshooting and cable installation.
- Knowledge of Windows server and Windows Active Directory/ADFS.
- Experience with VM servers (Vsphere).
- Experience with Android and/or iOS, iPhones, iPads.
- Experience with Office365.
- Experience with SharePoint.
- Experience with Office automation.
- Experience with Dell PCs, Dell Laptops, HP Printers, and HP Servers.
- Any plant floor automation experience is highly desired (Control systems, PLCs, etc.), but not required.
- Network monitoring (Nagios, Whats Up Gold, SPLUNK, DynaTrace).
How You Will Be Successful
- Envision the Future
- Communicate Honestly and Broadly
- Seek Technology and Business “First”
- Embrace Diversity and Take Risks
What We Offer
- Competitive Salary
- Comprehensive Benefit Package
- Group Retirement Savings Plan (GRSP) with matching contributions
- Paid holidays and vacation time off
- Free training on all Altair products
Why Work With Us Altair is a global technology company providing software and cloud solutions in the areas of data analytics, product development, and high-performance computing (HPC). Altair enables organizations in nearly every industry to compete more effectively in a connected world, while creating a more sustainable future. With more than 3,000 engineers, scientists, and creative thinkers in 25 countries, we help solve our customer’s toughest challenges and deliver unparalleled service, helping the innovators innovate, drive better decisions, and turn today’s problems into tomorrow’s opportunities.
Our vision is to transform customer decision making with data analytics, simulation, and high-performance computing. For more than 30 years, we have been helping our customers integrate electronics and controls with mechanical design to expand product value, develop AI, simulation and data-driven digital twins to drive better decisions, and deliver advanced HPC and cloud solutions to support unlimited idea exploration. To learn more, please visit altair.com
Ready to go? #ONLYFORWARD At our core we are explorers; adventures; pioneers. We are the brains behind some of the world’s most revolutionary innovations and are not only comfortable in new and unchartered waters, we dive headfirst. We are the original trailblazers that make the impossible possible, discovering new solutions to our customer’s toughest challenges.
Altair is an equal opportunity employer. Our backgrounds are diverse, and every member of our global team is critical to our success. Altair’s history demonstrations a belief that empowering each individual authentic voice reinforces a culture that thrives because of the uniqueness among our team.
About Altair
Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR) is a global leader in computational intelligence, which provides software and cloud solutions in the areas of simulation, high-performance computing (HPC), and AI. Altair enables organizations in nearly every industry to compete more effectively in a connected world while creating a more sustainable future.
Our vision is to leverage computational science to drive innovation and intelligent decisions for a more connected, safe, and sustainable future.
Wherever you are and whatever you’re doing, Altair’s solutions surround you – keeping you safer, more connected, and more productive. They can be found in big places and small — on highways, hospitals, and hockey rinks, in stadiums, skyscrapers, and subways, and in banks, bikes, and boats.
A critical component of our success has been our company culture, based on our core values of innovation, envisioning the future, communicating honestly and broadly, seeking technology and business firsts, and embracing diversity. We continually recruit for top talent and invest in our global workforce to fuel diversity, professional and personal growth, and innovation. At Altair, diversity and experiences are embraced and essential to our success and long-term growth. We are proud of the recognition our world-class culture, diversity, and sustainability efforts have garnered, including being named to Inc. magazines Best Led Companies List, Newsweek's Most Loved Workplaces, and Investor’s Business Daily’s Best 100 ESG Companies list.
For nearly 40 years, Altair has helped companies in their digital transformation efforts to make smarter decisions, save costs, reduce waste, accelerate time-to-market, improve business performance, and evolve to a data-driven culture.
In solving our customers’ toughest challenges and delivering unparalleled service, we are helping the innovators innovate, drive better decisions, and turn today’s problems into tomorrow’s opportunities.
Top Benefits
About the role
Transforming the Future with Convergence of Simulation and Data Systems Engineering Practitioner Job Summary Our client in Windsor, ON is looking for a Systems Engineering Practitioner. This is a contract position.
What You Will Do This is an Information Technology Operations based role that supports our Essex Engine Plant and Windsor Engine Plant. These plants build a wide array of engines and components for multiple American Plants. These engines and components will go into our top selling products. This is an outstanding opportunity to be a member of the Site IT team and assist in reimagining how site IT lends support to the manufacturing team, as we modernize the plant floor with new technology to reduce complexity and increase efficiency. As a member of the Plant IT team, you are directly responsible for maintaining the systems that keep the production lines running. Your job responsibilities will require you to provide support that includes technical troubleshooting, data analysis & problem resolution for the applications & infrastructure that the plant uses to produce diverse products for vehicles globally. You will also lend your knowledge and experiences to support process improvement efforts toward flexible and lean manufacturing, enabling IIOT for Manufacturing and supporting the existing manufacturing execution systems within the facility. This position provides an excellent opportunity to not only expand your IT Skillset, but also to acquire manufacturing experience that will enhance your long-term career potential.
Basics
- Bachelor degree in IT, Computer Science or Bachelor of Arts with related work experience.
- A strong desire to learn manufacturing operations and business practices from an IT perspective is desired.
- Broad business and manufacturing perspective is helpful.
- Understanding of computer-based tools, computing infrastructure and interest in processes that support manufacturing is core.
- A Willingness to work in a high-pressure production environment and flexible work schedule is a foundation in this space.
- A willingness to learn and adapt to new technologies.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to multi-task; managing multiple tasks.
- Work efficiently and effectively with diverse, cross functional teams under stressful circumstances.
- Ability to communicate effectively with business users and IT professionals including globally distributed teams.
- The ability to adjust communications appropriately for the audience, work with all levels of management and diverse work groups, including globally distributed teams. Including the ability to adjust communications appropriately for the audience across all levels of management and knowledge.
- Motivated self-starter.
- Identifying, investigating & solving problems without supervision.
- Manufacturing experience is preferred, but not required.
Preferred
- Master degree in IT, Computer Science.
- Experience with Server administration; Windows (2012+) or Linux.
- Familiar with Cisco routers and switches to include basic staging, troubleshooting and cable installation.
- Knowledge of Windows server and Windows Active Directory/ADFS.
- Experience with VM servers (Vsphere).
- Experience with Android and/or iOS, iPhones, iPads.
- Experience with Office365.
- Experience with SharePoint.
- Experience with Office automation.
- Experience with Dell PCs, Dell Laptops, HP Printers, and HP Servers.
- Any plant floor automation experience is highly desired (Control systems, PLCs, etc.), but not required.
- Network monitoring (Nagios, Whats Up Gold, SPLUNK, DynaTrace).
How You Will Be Successful
- Envision the Future
- Communicate Honestly and Broadly
- Seek Technology and Business “First”
- Embrace Diversity and Take Risks
What We Offer
- Competitive Salary
- Comprehensive Benefit Package
- Group Retirement Savings Plan (GRSP) with matching contributions
- Paid holidays and vacation time off
- Free training on all Altair products
Why Work With Us Altair is a global technology company providing software and cloud solutions in the areas of data analytics, product development, and high-performance computing (HPC). Altair enables organizations in nearly every industry to compete more effectively in a connected world, while creating a more sustainable future. With more than 3,000 engineers, scientists, and creative thinkers in 25 countries, we help solve our customer’s toughest challenges and deliver unparalleled service, helping the innovators innovate, drive better decisions, and turn today’s problems into tomorrow’s opportunities.
Our vision is to transform customer decision making with data analytics, simulation, and high-performance computing. For more than 30 years, we have been helping our customers integrate electronics and controls with mechanical design to expand product value, develop AI, simulation and data-driven digital twins to drive better decisions, and deliver advanced HPC and cloud solutions to support unlimited idea exploration. To learn more, please visit altair.com
Ready to go? #ONLYFORWARD At our core we are explorers; adventures; pioneers. We are the brains behind some of the world’s most revolutionary innovations and are not only comfortable in new and unchartered waters, we dive headfirst. We are the original trailblazers that make the impossible possible, discovering new solutions to our customer’s toughest challenges.
Altair is an equal opportunity employer. Our backgrounds are diverse, and every member of our global team is critical to our success. Altair’s history demonstrations a belief that empowering each individual authentic voice reinforces a culture that thrives because of the uniqueness among our team.
About Altair
Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR) is a global leader in computational intelligence, which provides software and cloud solutions in the areas of simulation, high-performance computing (HPC), and AI. Altair enables organizations in nearly every industry to compete more effectively in a connected world while creating a more sustainable future.
Our vision is to leverage computational science to drive innovation and intelligent decisions for a more connected, safe, and sustainable future.
Wherever you are and whatever you’re doing, Altair’s solutions surround you – keeping you safer, more connected, and more productive. They can be found in big places and small — on highways, hospitals, and hockey rinks, in stadiums, skyscrapers, and subways, and in banks, bikes, and boats.
A critical component of our success has been our company culture, based on our core values of innovation, envisioning the future, communicating honestly and broadly, seeking technology and business firsts, and embracing diversity. We continually recruit for top talent and invest in our global workforce to fuel diversity, professional and personal growth, and innovation. At Altair, diversity and experiences are embraced and essential to our success and long-term growth. We are proud of the recognition our world-class culture, diversity, and sustainability efforts have garnered, including being named to Inc. magazines Best Led Companies List, Newsweek's Most Loved Workplaces, and Investor’s Business Daily’s Best 100 ESG Companies list.
For nearly 40 years, Altair has helped companies in their digital transformation efforts to make smarter decisions, save costs, reduce waste, accelerate time-to-market, improve business performance, and evolve to a data-driven culture.
In solving our customers’ toughest challenges and delivering unparalleled service, we are helping the innovators innovate, drive better decisions, and turn today’s problems into tomorrow’s opportunities.