Product Engineering Analyst
Top Benefits
About the role
What you’ll do
The Engineering Analyst is responsible for distilling consumer product quality expectations that meet or exceed our target market, translate them into product testing requirements that will drive enhanced quality products, improved customer product experience and satisfaction.
- Create and maintain product specification documents for each product in their assigned categories
- Responsible for the creation, monitoring, revising, and communication of the Testing Criteria; collaborate with Merchandising & Branding teams to ensure testing criteria and test plans align to brand and consumer expectations.
- Determine the acceptability of product quality through product evaluations, consumer usage testing, and competitive benchmarking; Recommend concepts for product improvement or product dismissals to the Product Quality Manager, merchants, vendors, and other internal stakeholders
- Evaluate product Bill Of Materials, specifications, and change request documents from vendors
- Conduct product complaint investigations, responsible for vendor follow ups, and supporting of product incident review meetings
- Review online customer reviews, taking necessary follow up actions; coordinating product investigations with stores and vendors
- Reviewing after sales service reports to feedback into the testing criteria and report learnings to vendors and merchants
- Collaborate with Product Development and Branding teams on new Owned Brand product launches
What you bring
- 2+ years experience in quality assurance, product development, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, material science engineering, automotive engineering, manufacturing engineering, or a related field
- University degree in a related discipline
- Product knowledge relevant to their assigned categories
- Proven technical acumen demonstrated within a manufacturing, quality or consumer products environment
- American Society for Quality or similar certifications an asset
- Lean Six Sigma certification an asset
- Lean manufacturing experience an asset
- Continuous improvement process experience
About Us
Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (“CTC”) is one of Canada’s most admired and trusted companies. With more than 90 Owned Brands, 1,700 retail locations, financial services, exemplary e-commerce capabilities, and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies. We dream big and work as one to innovate with purpose for our customers at every level of our business, investing in new technologies and products, and doubling down on top talent to drive the company forward. We offer competitive salaries and wages to CTC employees, as well as store discounts, supported learning through our Triangle Learning Academy, Canadian Tire Profit Sharing, and retirement and savings programs for eligible employees. As part of our enhanced flex benefits program, we offer mental health benefits in the amount of $5,000 per year for benefits-eligible employees and their families, including total well-being, and mental health tools and resources for all employees. Join us in helping to make life in Canada better through living and working our Core Values: we are innovators and entrepreneurs at our core, outcomes drive us, inclusion is a must, we are stronger together and we take personal responsibility. It is an especially exciting time to join CTC and its family of companies where career opportunities are wide-ranging! Join us, where there's a place for you here.
Our Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging
We are committed to fostering an environment where belonging thrives, and diversity, inclusion and equity are infused into everything we do. We believe in building an organizational culture where people are consistently treated with dignity while respecting individual religion, nationality, gender, race, age, perceived ability, spoken language, sexual orientation, and identification. We are united in our purpose of being here to help make life in Canada better.
Accommodations
We stand firm in our Core Value that inclusion is a must. We welcome and encourage candidates from equity-seeking groups such as people who identify as racialized, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA+, women, people with disabilities, and beyond. Should you require any accommodation in applying for this role, or throughout the interview process, please make them known when contacted and we will work with you to help meet your needs.
About Canadian Tire Corporation, Ltd.
Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited ("CTC") is one of Canada's most admired and trusted companies. With world-class owned brands and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies, we are continually innovating with purpose: to be there for Canadians from coast-to-coast.
We are a group of companies that includes a retail segment, a financial services division and CT REIT. Our retail business is led by Canadian Tire, which was founded in 1922 and provides Canadians with products for life in Canada across its Living, Playing, Fixing, Automotive and Seasonal & Gardening categories. Party City, PartSource and Gas+ are key parts of the Canadian Tire network. Our retail segment also includes Mark's, a leading source for casual and industrial wear, Pro Hockey Life, a hockey speciality store catering to elite athletes, and SportChek, Hockey Experts, Sports Experts, and Atmosphere, which offer the best active wear brands. Our 1,700 retail and gasoline outlets are supported and strengthened by our Financial Services division and the tens of thousands of people employed across the country by our Company, local Dealers, franchisees and petroleum retailers. In addition, CTC owns and operates Helly Hansen, a leading technical outdoor brand based in Oslo, Norway.
CTC is an integral part of the communities in which we operate and our legacy of community support, through national and local programs, is initiated and executed by our Corporation, Dealers, franchisees, store operators and employees. Since 2005, our Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities has been helping kids overcome financial and accessibility barriers to sport and recreation in an effort to provide inclusive play for all kids of all abilities.
For more information, visit corp.canadiantire.ca.
Product Engineering Analyst
Top Benefits
About the role
What you’ll do
The Engineering Analyst is responsible for distilling consumer product quality expectations that meet or exceed our target market, translate them into product testing requirements that will drive enhanced quality products, improved customer product experience and satisfaction.
- Create and maintain product specification documents for each product in their assigned categories
- Responsible for the creation, monitoring, revising, and communication of the Testing Criteria; collaborate with Merchandising & Branding teams to ensure testing criteria and test plans align to brand and consumer expectations.
- Determine the acceptability of product quality through product evaluations, consumer usage testing, and competitive benchmarking; Recommend concepts for product improvement or product dismissals to the Product Quality Manager, merchants, vendors, and other internal stakeholders
- Evaluate product Bill Of Materials, specifications, and change request documents from vendors
- Conduct product complaint investigations, responsible for vendor follow ups, and supporting of product incident review meetings
- Review online customer reviews, taking necessary follow up actions; coordinating product investigations with stores and vendors
- Reviewing after sales service reports to feedback into the testing criteria and report learnings to vendors and merchants
- Collaborate with Product Development and Branding teams on new Owned Brand product launches
What you bring
- 2+ years experience in quality assurance, product development, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, material science engineering, automotive engineering, manufacturing engineering, or a related field
- University degree in a related discipline
- Product knowledge relevant to their assigned categories
- Proven technical acumen demonstrated within a manufacturing, quality or consumer products environment
- American Society for Quality or similar certifications an asset
- Lean Six Sigma certification an asset
- Lean manufacturing experience an asset
- Continuous improvement process experience
About Us
Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (“CTC”) is one of Canada’s most admired and trusted companies. With more than 90 Owned Brands, 1,700 retail locations, financial services, exemplary e-commerce capabilities, and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies. We dream big and work as one to innovate with purpose for our customers at every level of our business, investing in new technologies and products, and doubling down on top talent to drive the company forward. We offer competitive salaries and wages to CTC employees, as well as store discounts, supported learning through our Triangle Learning Academy, Canadian Tire Profit Sharing, and retirement and savings programs for eligible employees. As part of our enhanced flex benefits program, we offer mental health benefits in the amount of $5,000 per year for benefits-eligible employees and their families, including total well-being, and mental health tools and resources for all employees. Join us in helping to make life in Canada better through living and working our Core Values: we are innovators and entrepreneurs at our core, outcomes drive us, inclusion is a must, we are stronger together and we take personal responsibility. It is an especially exciting time to join CTC and its family of companies where career opportunities are wide-ranging! Join us, where there's a place for you here.
Our Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging
We are committed to fostering an environment where belonging thrives, and diversity, inclusion and equity are infused into everything we do. We believe in building an organizational culture where people are consistently treated with dignity while respecting individual religion, nationality, gender, race, age, perceived ability, spoken language, sexual orientation, and identification. We are united in our purpose of being here to help make life in Canada better.
Accommodations
We stand firm in our Core Value that inclusion is a must. We welcome and encourage candidates from equity-seeking groups such as people who identify as racialized, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA+, women, people with disabilities, and beyond. Should you require any accommodation in applying for this role, or throughout the interview process, please make them known when contacted and we will work with you to help meet your needs.
About Canadian Tire Corporation, Ltd.
Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited ("CTC") is one of Canada's most admired and trusted companies. With world-class owned brands and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies, we are continually innovating with purpose: to be there for Canadians from coast-to-coast.
We are a group of companies that includes a retail segment, a financial services division and CT REIT. Our retail business is led by Canadian Tire, which was founded in 1922 and provides Canadians with products for life in Canada across its Living, Playing, Fixing, Automotive and Seasonal & Gardening categories. Party City, PartSource and Gas+ are key parts of the Canadian Tire network. Our retail segment also includes Mark's, a leading source for casual and industrial wear, Pro Hockey Life, a hockey speciality store catering to elite athletes, and SportChek, Hockey Experts, Sports Experts, and Atmosphere, which offer the best active wear brands. Our 1,700 retail and gasoline outlets are supported and strengthened by our Financial Services division and the tens of thousands of people employed across the country by our Company, local Dealers, franchisees and petroleum retailers. In addition, CTC owns and operates Helly Hansen, a leading technical outdoor brand based in Oslo, Norway.
CTC is an integral part of the communities in which we operate and our legacy of community support, through national and local programs, is initiated and executed by our Corporation, Dealers, franchisees, store operators and employees. Since 2005, our Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities has been helping kids overcome financial and accessibility barriers to sport and recreation in an effort to provide inclusive play for all kids of all abilities.
For more information, visit corp.canadiantire.ca.