Electro Mechanical Technician

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?

AML 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.

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.

The mission of this role is "Build it, fix it, better it": Assembly and service of Deployment (MVP) Systems with ongoing improvement

As an Electro-Mechanical Technician, your day is hands-on and varied. You’ll be assembling large electrical and mechanical systems, ensuring precision and quality while troubleshooting and testing complex assemblies. Whether you’re on the production floor or traveling across the world for product installations and servicing, you’re a key player in delivering reliable solutions. You’ll work towards maintaining a 90% build yield or better, meeting weekly goals with efficiency and accuracy, while proactively identifying opportunities for process improvement and safety enhancements. Communication is essential, as you collaborate with team members and support a culture of excellence and adaptability.

In this role, you'll also cross-train in new processes and products each quarter, develop deep product knowledge, and work on honing your hydraulic, mechanical, and electrical assembly skills. If you're detail-oriented, thrive in a dynamic environment, and enjoy problem-solving, this role will allow you to make a real impact.

Accountabilities

• Quality Control: Out of box / out of inventory failures < 1% on completed jobs. Importance: To deliver reliable products to our customers
• Timeliness: Achieves on time delivery of completed jobs. Importance: Building a track record of success over the short term
• Execution: Achieves individual goals (metrics & quarterly priorities) in 2 of the last 3 quarters. Importance: Building a track record of success over the long term.
• See Something, Say Something: Proactively communicates quality issues, schedule conflicts and safety concerns. Importance: Identifying the issue early & communicating it
• AML Ambassador: Strengthens customer relationships through quality field service. Importance: Satisfying our customers needs & paving the way for recurring service

Key Competencies

• Electro / Mechanical Expertise - Gift for assembly, fit and installation of prefabricated parts; Splicing of cabling; Soldering; Operation of shop equipment; Ability to read a schematic; Understanding of marine electronics; Familiar with drafting standards.
• Meticulous / Detail Oriented - High manual dexterity. Aptitude for meticulous, detail oriented assembly. Getting it right the first time; minimal re-work. Zero warranty work.
• Quality Control - Knowledge of quality control best practices and test procedures
• Troubleshooting Skills - Electrical and mechanical problems; Ability to distinguish symptom from cause; Ability to determine root cause
• Hydraulics Expertise - Understanding of hydraulic schematics, parts and components
• Sea Legs - Knowledgeable of the systems and operations on board a survey vessel, for the purposes of servicing MVPs.