{"id":3615367,"url":"https://alion.io/job/linamar-design-validation-engineer","title":"Design & Validation Engineer","company":{"id":2044347,"name":"Linamar Corporation","domain":"linamar.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/linamar-com","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Oracle","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":75,"open_postings":35,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-11-05T05:54:30Z"}},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":"middle","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Guelph, Canada"],"countries":["CA"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":3,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"MATLAB","optional":false},{"name":"Simulink","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-02T14:48:31Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-02","last_verified_at":"2026-11-05T06:07:00Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":2,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":2},"description":"Design & Validation Engineer - R&D\nPosition Summary:\nSkyjack is seeking a Design and Validation Engineer to join our Design Development and Validation Group which operates at the core of advanced mobile machinery innovation and high-impact engineering where complex theoretical design meets the physics of heavy equipment. In this role, you will be instrumental in ensuring the safety, reliability, and performance of our world-class mobile elevating work platforms and material handling equipment. Your contribution will help with the structural, functional, and environmental evolution of next-generation mobile equipment.\nPerformance Expectations:\nComprehensive Design Validation Plans (DVP): You will lead and be responsible for executing DVP’s, applying rigorous validation across structural, mechanical, hydraulic and electrical domains and oversee a wide array of critical verifications.\n\nStructural & Mechanical Evaluation: Evaluate static and dynamic stability envelopes, structural load distribution, stress concentrations, weight distributions, and fatigue life using advanced calculations, finite element analysis (FEA), and high-fidelity physical strain-gauge instrumentation.\n\nPerformance & Kinematic Characterization: Design and execute complex performance evaluations.\n\nHydraulic & Electrical Subsystem Verification: Investigate and optimize intricate hydraulic circuits, proportional valve responses, pressure mappings, electrical bus voltage/current transients, control interlocks, and power discharge profiles.\n\nCustom Validation Fixture & Data Acquisition Engineering: Design specialized evaluation fixtures and hardware setups. Leverage advanced data acquisition tools and software (such as LabVIEW and Somat) to capture, filter, and interpret transient physical phenomena.\n\nRoot-Cause Failure Analysis & Design Evolution: Investigate prototype and field anomalies with a forensic engineering mindset. Perform root-cause failure analysis on mechanical, structural, or electronic subsystems and drive immediate, creative design improvements back into the engineering core.\n\nEnvironmental & Ingress Assessment: Validate equipment performance under diverse operational environments, including temperature extremes, duty-cycle stress, and ingress protection evaluation.\n\nFailure Analysis & Reliability Improvement: Investigate prototype and field equipment anomalies. Perform root-cause analysis on structural, mechanical, or electrical failures and provide actionable engineering recommendations to enhance product reliability.\n\nTechnical Certification & Documentation: Synthesize complex physical findings into comprehensive engineering reports and formal documentation required for international design certification and compliance.\n\nValidation Asset Management: Maintain and update evaluation benches, measurement instrumentation, and data acquisition inventory to ensure industry-leading validation efficiency and accuracy.\n\nCredentials:\nEngineering Degree in Mechanical, Hydraulic or Electrical Engineering. Mechatronics or any other relevant engineering-based programs could be considered.\n\nIdeally, candidates should be eligible to register or working towards their P.Eng designation.\n\nDesired Characteristics:\nExperience: Minimum 3 years of experience as a either a Validation, Mechanical, Design, or Electrical Design Engineer in preferably mobile/heavy equipment or related manufacturing environment.\n\nCore Skills:\nEngineering calculations, physical evaluation, design and 3D modeling experience.\n\nStrong technical writing and communication skills, capable of translating complex physical data into clear strategic direction for cross-functional engineering teams.\n\nAbility to drive complex projects with minimal supervision and collaborate with multi-functional technical groups.\n\nPreferred:\nExperience with electrical, mechanical, and hydraulic validation and development of evaluation plans.\n\nFamiliar with PLC’s or other programmable devices.\n\nExperience with data acquisition hardware/software (e.g., Labview, Somat).\n\nFamiliarity with engineering software (e.g., MathCad, FEA, CFD, Automation Studio, Matlab Simulink).\n\nTroubleshooting experience with control circuits, electrical, and hydraulic systems.\n\nWhat Linamar/Skyjack Has to Offer\nCompetitive Compensation\n\nEmployee Benefits package includes but not limited to, Drug, Dental & Vision etc.\n\nOpportunities for career advancement.\n\nSustainability Counsel\n\nCommunity based outreach supporting both local and global initiatives and charities.\n\nAbout Skyjack:\nSkyjack supplies construction rental companies globally with quality engineered, simple, and reliable access and telehandler equipment. Initially started as a scissor lift manufacturer in 1985, and has grown to become a world leader in the general Mobile Elevating Work Platform (MEWP) industry.\nAs a dominant player in a consistently evolving industry, Skyjack employees thrive on absorbing new information and have a thirst for continuous improvement in their professional selves. In 2002 Skyjack became a part of the Linamar Corporation and has since been able to leverage strategic partnerships and use the guidance of their parent company to rapidly change the face of the access industry.\nEvery aspect of the company is deeply rooted in Skyjacks safety initiatives as this can be an extremely challenging industry. Skyjack prides itself on being simply reliable and easy to do business with. This mission extends to the relationships with customers, suppliers, and employees.\nWe encourage you to apply even if you do not meet the full requirements for this position.­\nLinamar is committed to promoting accessible recruitment as outlined in the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act. Linamar will attempt to accommodate persons with a disability in an appropriate and effective manner throughout all stages of the recruitment process. Accommodations will be provided upon request.\nLinamar Corporation encourages applications from all qualified individuals and will reasonably accommodate applicants throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process upon request\n(#L1-PP1)","description_format":"text","description_chars":6148,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":3,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-02T16:16:10Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":63,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.632,"p_room":1,"age_days":2,"expected_fill_days":27,"reasons":["conf:5","stale_co","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-05T05:54:30Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/linamar-design-validation-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/linamar-design-validation-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-05T10:14:29Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":12963,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-06T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":2044347},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=2044347"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Flinamar-design-validation-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Flinamar-design-validation-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Flinamar-design-validation-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/linamar-design-validation-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Flinamar-design-validation-engineer"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3615367}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"linamar.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3615367},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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