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POSITION TITLE: Instructional Designer
Department: Learning and Development
LOCATION: North Bay, Ontario
Salary: $55,000 - $75,000 per year
Purpose of Role: The Instructional Systems Designer I is accountable for designing and developing innovative learning solutions in support of MacLean products. The role will create engaging, modularized learning solutions, resources, and compelling course content for eLearning and Instructor-led training that is clearly aligned to business outcomes.
The Instructional Designer I will partner with management, business unit leaders, and subject matter experts to apply tested instructional design theories, practices, and methods to all training offerings.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Write clear, accurate instructional content for training delivery.
- Keep learning solutions (new and revisions) up to date for accuracy and branding.
- Work on multiple projects simultaneously at various stages of development.
- Recommend training and technical process improvement initiatives.
- Examine and adapt strategies, ideas, and tools that help face the challenges and complexities of the teaching and learning processes.
- Consult with internal clients, subject matter experts, and other stakeholders to understand learning needs and define success measures.
- Maintain and incrementally improve existing training courses and materials.
- Support the launch of project implementations including tasks not found in a traditional Instructional Designer role (product photography, videography, etc.).
- Work with department management to develop and maintain online course catalog.
QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE
Education
- College Diploma or University Degree is preferred.
- Adult Learning & Education or Psychology is a definite asset.
Experience
- Experience in technical writing is required.
- Experience in designing, developing, and managing blended learning programs for internal and/or external clients is preferred.
- Experience in writing Operator’s and Maintenance Manuals is a definite asset.
- Experience with heavy manufacturing within a mining environment is an asset.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to communicate effectively.
- Knowledge and application of adult learning principles, training needs analysis, instructional design, information design, training methodologies, learning technologies, and evaluation strategies.
- Course development software experience is required (e.g., Articulate, PowerPoint).
- Experience working with Microsoft Office.
- This is an English-language position. Bilingualism (French or Spanish) would be a definite asset.
Working Conditions
- Office environment with access to manufacturing as required.
- May be exposed to noise levels that are distracting.
Planned Training
- HR Orientation
- HSE Orientation
Bona fide Occupational Requirements
- Must be able to complete all required training
Employment Category
- Full Time
- Part Time
- Temporary
- Permanent
- Contract
Hours of Work:
- Day Shift
- Afternoon Shift
- Weekend Shift
- Overtime may be necessary to meet deadlines
About Us: Founded in 1973 in Ontario, Canada, MacLean Engineering is the world’s largest Canadian-based manufacturer of underground mining equipment. While continuing to expand both our product range and global footprint, we remain privately owned and committed to the founder’s original design principles: safety, productivity, and enduring quality. Our company delivers mobile equipment solutions for both underground and surface mining, supported by unit-of-one manufacturing expertise and a global service network.
Driven by a strong commitment to safety, productivity, and customer support, MacLean serves mining operations worldwide through branches in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Peru, South Africa, and Australia. We operate five manufacturing facilities located in Collingwood, Owen Sound, Barrie, North Bay, and Mexico, and employ over 1,000 people across six countries and four continents. The next chapters of MacLean’s mining innovation story are being written within the broad themes of electrification, automation, and digitalization of the global mining industry.
Our skilled tradespeople work in a safety first environment to build high quality components and equipment for the underground mining, municipal, environmental, and industrial sectors. Join MacLean and contribute to a legacy defined by innovation, craftsmanship, and meaningful impact.
We offer competitive wages and benefits including:
- 3 weeks' vacation annually.
- Paid sick and family emergency time.
- Free coffee!
- Flexible Group benefits Package (Once probationary period is completed)
- Voluntary DPSP (Deferred Profit-Sharing Plan) and GRRSP (Group Registered Retirement Savings Plan) (Once probationary period is completed)
- Annual Integrated Bonus (AIB)
- $250 Annual Safety Shoe allowance
- $250 Prescription Safety Glasses allowance every 24 months
- Company Paid Uniforms
- Employee appreciation days, raffles/draws, BBQ’s and much more
If you are interested in being a part of an established and growing Canadian Company, we want to hear from you!
We thank all applicants in advance for their application and interest in MacLean Engineering & Marketing Co Limited. However, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
Please note that employment with MacLean Engineering is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check conducted by our third-party provider, Sterling Backcheck. This process may include verification of employment history, education, and a criminal record check, depending on the requirements of the position.
MacLean Engineering & Marketing Co. Limited is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing employment accommodation in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (2005).
MacLean Engineering & Marketing Co. Limited will provide accommodations to job applicants with disabilities throughout the recruitment process. If you require an accommodation, please notify us and we will work with you to meet your needs.
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About MacLean Engineering & Marketing Co Limited
Great Things Happen Here
Equipping the mining world with innovative mobile equipment solutions is what we do at MacLean, but more importantly is the why. We aspire to be best-in-class leaders in the design, manufacturing, and support of engineered solutions that make mining safer, greener, and more productive. This brand promise is inextricably linked to our people.
We are building a diverse, top-performing employee base by hiring entrepreneurial, creative, hardworking, ethical, and safety focused candidates who want to make a lasting difference and build a career doing it. If this sound like you, dive in and join the MacLean innovation wave!
Join the MacLean innovation wave!
We are a global, family-owned company where we treat each other, our customers, and our host communities as if they were family. This is our competitive differentiator across the board when it comes to employee development, customer relationships, and business results.
Our production facility and branch footprint on four continents and market reach into six continents is in keeping with the scope of our ambition to develop paradigm-changing, tech-enabled mining vehicles the world over. This transformative vision requires a wide range of talent working together across the company’s manufacturing, engineering, product management, marketing, sales, aftermarket support, finance, and human resource functions.
Who we are
MacLean specializes in mobile equipment solutions based on underground mining experience, unit-of-one manufacturing expertise, and worldwide customer service and support.
We have been innovating for mining equipment safety and productivity for almost 50 years, supporting customers worldwide with branches across Canada as well as in the United States, Mexico, Peru, South Africa, and Australia.
Our Story
MacLean is the world’s largest Canadian-based underground mining vehicle manufacturer.
From modest beginnings retrofitting farm tractors out of an apple orchard barn in Southern Georgian Bay, Ontario, to today’s multi-national corporate network of some 1,000 employees across four continents and six countries, the next chapters of the MacLean mining innovation story are actively being written within the broad themes of the electrification, automation, and digitalization of the global industry.
The constant across the shifting sands of time and geography is the MacLean commitment to pursuing engineered solutions that make the underground environment safer and more productive.
The foundation for all of our work together is a shared culture of entrepreneurial innovation and customer focus. When we create what we call MacLean ‘Application Intelligence’ for the mining sector, we are leveraging multi disciplinary engineering expertise, continental manufacturing capacity, and decades of mining knowledge, to deliver safety and productivity enhancing solutions to the end-users who operate and maintain our products in underground mines around the globe.
We are a major employer in our host communities and, as such, we strive to be an employer of choice. On the leading edge of technological and manufacturing innovation, we never lose sight of the people behind the machines – the MacLean employees across our production facilities who work to create products of lasting value for the mining sector.
Our Values
The MacLean Way is our overarching vision, mission, and values statement. It is the embodiment of our history, present, and future: where we came from, who we are now, and where we are going.