Careers - VMAC

VMAC is a lean organization, focused on continuous improvement of our processes and systems, safety of our coworkers, and a culture built on respect of all coworkers and stakeholders. An award-winning organization, VMAC was named one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies and is Great Place To Work Certified™. VMAC has made the following lists: Best Workplaces™ in Manufacturing (2020, 2019), Best Workplaces for Giving (2020), Best Workplaces for Inclusion (2020), and Best Workplaces in British Columbia (2020, 2019).

VMAC is known for its innovation and technical advancements in manufacturing and engineering. These core competencies are key to our future success and growth. Read more here.

VMAC strives to employ hard-working people who are highly skilled in their field and can demonstrate a positive, solution-focused, team-player attitude. If you have a track record of excellence in Engineering, Marketing, Trades, Accounting, Supply Chain or Technical Sales, and are interested in building a career with an exciting company that has grown consistently over its 30-year history, please email your resumé.

Attention: HR Department at [email protected].

We update the VMAC careers page regularly with postings for specific positions. Check back regularly to stay updated when new positions come available.

Available Positions:

Material Handler
Position: Material Handler
Job Type: Full-time, Permanent

Responsibilities

The Material Handler works with the warehouse and shipping areas ensuring that production cells have parts available for manufacturing. The Material Handler oversees the storage and movement of raw material in all locations and is responsible for inventory tracking. Additional responsibilities are to assist and cross train with the warehouse and shipping staff to fill in and assist as required. Attention to detail and the ability for follow a rigid timed schedule is essential to be successful in this position.

Position Specific Duties
- Replenish production assembly cells with parts and raw material.
- Assist shipping and packaging.
- Runner to get parts and resolve issues in production cells.
- Maintains orderly storage and receiving area(s).
- Unloading of raw material and storage
- Receives and moves inventory via MRP system.
- Packaging of finished goods
- Cycle counts finished goods daily.
- Resolves problems concerning the location of inventory in storage and inventory discrepancies.
- Maintains inventory records, affixes tags to identify inventory and disposes of obsolete materials.
- Participants in scheduled inventory counts
- Other duties as required.
Qualifications / Education / Experience
- Completion of Grade XII
- Certified Forklift operator
- Minimum two years warehouse/receiving experience.
- 3-4 years’ experience with Windows or network-based computer systems.
- Mechanical knowledge
- Team player
- Interpersonal skills
- Precise, detail oriented
- Capable of heavy workload and multi-tasking
- Position requires some physical strength.
- Working knowledge of lean manufacturing
- Working knowledge of ISO Quality Systems
- Must possess personal organizational skills to a degree which ensures:
- Work area housekeeping is maintained within acceptable VMAC standards.
- Tasks are prioritized in accordance with overall departmental production requirements.
- Minimal supervision is required.
If your experience and qualifications match these requirements, please forward your resume to the attention of the HR Department.

E-mail:                  [email protected]
Fax:                        250-740-3201
Mail:                     1333 Kipp Road, Nanaimo, BC V9X 1R3
Electrical Engineer
Position: Electrical Engineer
Job Type: Full-time, Permanent

Responsibilities

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Clear concise communication skills. Ability to raise concerns as soon as they become problematic. Be an active part of an agile development team that constantly leans on others in the group for assistance when faced with a challenging problem/situation.
- Finish tasks within allocated time frame and with attention to detail
- Circuit design, simulation, layout, population, debug
- Firmware design/modification, debug.
- Unit testing (firmware), development and execution
- Root cause analysis of electrical/electronic failures
- Follow existing VMAC standard work practices for drawings, circuit design, wiring harnesses and code development.
- Pride of ownership of work completed.
Position Specific Duties (VMAC)

Under close supervision and in an environment of progressive peer learning and support:
- Develop, code and test embedded applications on systems containing ARM and/or PIC architectures with OLED/LCD displays, LEDs, user I/O, I2C, SPI, CAN, ADC,etc, custom applications. Primary language is C however an understanding of assembly is required.
- Develop, code and implement unit tests for embedded modules.
- Participate and/or lead constructive peer design review meetings for firmware/PCB/schematic/electro-mechanical devices.
- Complete and issue Engineering Change Notices (ECN) related to electronics, electronic housings, wiring harnesses and firmware for a variety of systems used at VMAC Global Technology Inc.
  Develop circuits and create PCBs in Circuit Studio/Altium (experience in Eagle is also an asset)
- Develop and create simple electro-mechanical devices used to semi-automate production electronics testing and verification.
- Understand and modify existing firmware/electronics as required.
- Participate in root cause analysis of warranty claims related to electrical/electronics.
- Create and/or modify existing wiring harness documentation in SolidWorks.
- Assist with technical support/Quality issues as required.
- Evaluate potential new technologies and present advantages/disadvantages to each technology.
Preference will be given to those who have experience in:
- Automobile Tier 1 Industry Experience
- Design with ISO-26262 awareness, compliance, and support • Permanent magnet motor design and test
- Altium PCB designer
- Circuit Studio PCB designer
- SolidWorks
- Embedded C based programming/debugging/development
- Embedded applications
- Android/iPhone app development
- IOT development
- Test driven development
- Experience with LCD/LED/OLED displays
- Hand soldering SMT/through-hole components for prototypes
- Experience with typical EE test equipment: Multimeter, soldering iron, oscilloscopes etc
- Design for manufacture
- Strong analytical/debugging skills typical in embedded applications.
- Mechanical aptitude, electro-mechanical aptitude
- Interesting hobbies outside of work
Qualifications / Education / Experience
- Completed BSc in Electrical Engineering with 3-5 years of embedded development experience.
- Strong firmware embedded technical skills.
- Experience with hardware design/debug
E-mail:                  [email protected]
Fax:                        250-740-3201
Mail:                     1333 Kipp Road, Nanaimo, BC V9X 1R3