Oceanographic Instrumentation Assembly Tech

Do you love to compete? Are you hungry for achievement? Are you an ‘A’ player? Do you want to work with other ‘A’ players? For a company where culture is nurtured and managed as a critical source of advantage? Where every employee knows and cares about direction and strategy?
About AMLAML Oceanographic has clocked average annual growth of more than 20% over the past 8 years. How? Most importantly, we’ve built a team that provides outstanding service and truly cares about our customers. AML has a market reputation for two things:

• Going to the ends of the earth to make our customers successful, and
• Bringing fresh ideas to an established market

We manufacture ocean sensing solutions – sensors, instrumentation, and deployment systems – for business and government customers on all seven continents. As a hi-tech business, our technical team includes experts and engineers with experience in the acoustic, mechanical, electrical, software, and embedded software domains. We operate from locations at either end of Canada: Halifax (Dartmouth) on the Atlantic Coast, and Victoria on the Pacific Coast.
This role will be based out of our office in Victoria, BC.
At AML, we do things a bit differently. Think daily huddles. Think Rockefeller Habits, Scaling Up, and the One Page Plan. Think town hall meetings with on-the-fly question & answer sessions. If you are familiar with these concepts - or they interest you - then you might be a fit for AML.
Mission of the RoleCreating high quality products
SummaryDo you enjoy building electronic devices and take pride in a job well done? As an Assembly Tech, you will be responsible for the timely production of high-quality, complex instruments and sensors. Your technical skills enable AML to deliver outstanding instrumentation, delighting our customers and enhancing our reputation.
Responsibilities:

• Build and test instruments, sensors, and sub-assemblies.
• Minimize out-of-box failures
• Strive for very high levels of quality, measured by first-pass yield and scrap rates.
• Maintain accurate production records.
• Complete builds within standard build time expectations.
• Operate software & firmware programming tools.
• Contribute to improving build yields and other improvement opportunities.
• Understand assembly processes
• Communicate procedure discrepancies to Ops Eng Tech.
• Assist team members with training, troubleshooting, and meeting weekly goals.
• Can distinguish symptoms from root cause.
• Be proactive in raising any health and safety concerns and and assist with resolution.
• Hold yourself and others accountable for adhering to safe work practices.
• Promotes AML's culture and support team members.
• Cross train across builds and backup other positions needed.
• Other duties as required.

Qualifications:

• High school diploma required.
• A diploma in Electronics Technology, or equivalent is not required, but an asset.
• Experience with electronics or assembly is not required, but an asset.
• Meticulous and detail oriented, with a high level of manual dexterity.
• Assembly and soldering skills.
• Ability to read and follow electronic schematics is an asset.
• Can use a computer effectively and interact with various software programs.
• Ability to learn troubleshooting of electrical and mechanical problems.
• Aptitude for process improvement, and can distinguish what adds value.
• Can visualize steps and sequencing.
• Can communicate effectively in a clear, concise, and professional manner; both written and verbal.
• Embraces change with excitement and passion.