Engineering Technician

Straight Shift Timing on Night Shift (10:00PM-6:30AM) but may be required to change shifts in order to accommodate production requirements.

TG Minto Corporation is a proud division of Toyoda Gosei, a World-class automotive supplier with 67 group companies in 17 countries. With locations in Palmerston and Stratford Ontario, we are a Tier1 supplier of injection molded interior/exterior parts & assemblies to Toyota and Honda. Together we are committed to providing high quality products with a heavy focus on safety, respect and success for our Team Members.

General Job Description:

The successful candidate will be responsible for defect reductions, cycle time management, material usage, and process control in injection process. Flexible work hours will be necessary. 

Duties and Responsibilities:
 

• Maintaining all aspects of quality in the injection-molding department.
• Trials for new products, molds, and EOAT (End of Arm Tooling).
• Scrap reduction and overall productivity improvement.
• Assisting Quality Control, Tooling, Maintenance, and Paint Departments with any issues due to the molding process and working together to resolve them.
• Investigate "WHY?" in all aspects of the process and find a solution to ensure it does not happen again.
• Focus on mizen boushi activities - prevent problem from occurring before it happens.
• Trouble-shoot defects in the injection process and implement countermeasures by determining the cause of the trouble and taking steps to prevent re-occurrence.
• Scrap reduction by limiting defects to meet established targets.
• Cycle reduction on all machines by creating efficiencies for operators.
• Training set-up, leader tech and supervisors on set-up work instructions.
• Training set-up and supervisors with new products and procedures.
• Creation of work instructions for purging, mold change and before startup check.
• Documentation of all presses as well as training supervisors and set-up how to use them.
• Maintain consistent quality and production by stabilizing processes and machine functions.
• Reduce machine down time by implementing maintenance and preventative maintenance (delegate the actual repairs/maintenance to the maintenance dept.).
• Fill out MSCN's for tool modifications, retrials, & follow-up to ensure the modifications were implemented and successful by retrial.
• Train set up techs to perform minor processing for defect trouble shooting
• Maintain charts, report daily/weekly defect activity and monthly scrap/defect ratio report.
• Support Set-up with mold changes and color changes when possible
• Work in a safe manner and maintain 5S.
• TG Minto may amend the reporting structure and/or duties and responsibilities as business needs require

Qualifications:
 

• 2-year college diploma; or three years of related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum three years in the automotive industry.
• Minimum two years of experience in a Set-Up Technician role.
• Reach truck license required.
• Lift truck license required.
• Vacuum form and injection manufacturing experience is considered an asset.

Reasons you'll love working here:
 

• Eligible for Manulife Benefits on your first day of employment
• 90% medical prescriptions
• 80% Dental
• $350 Vision every other year
• Select Professional Services ($500/service)
• $100 uniform allowance annually
• $100 Safety Boot allowance annually
• Prescription Safety Glasses allowance of $100 every two years
• Free counselling through Homewood for team members and family
• Short-term counselling offered over the phone, online or in person for a variety of mental health issues
• Life coaching for a health work life balance
• Advice line for various workplace situations that require a professional opinion
• Community Involvement
• 50/50 Draws every pay with proceeds going to various charities such as Ronald McDonald House, Breast Cancer Foundation, SickKids, local families that have experienced hardships, and more
• Dress Down Days where you're invited to wear jeans on the Friday before a long weekend for a small donation with proceeds going to charity
• Raise money for a local family to provide Christmas gifts for those is need
• Annual food drive where the winning department/team receives a pizza party for donating the most food
• Employee Events/Appreciations
• Team member appreciation lunches such as pizza, pita pit, BBQ, ice cream truck, beaver tails, etc.
• Holiday lunches for Thanksgiving and Christmas
• Kid's Christmas party for team members children. Goodies, presents from Santa, and lots of other fun activities (0-12 yrs of age)
• Kid Colouring contests throughout the year for team members' children. First place prize in each age group (0-3 yrs, 4-6 yrs, 7-9 yrs, and 10-12 yrs ) and goodies for participants
• Monthly Attendance Bonus for perfect attendance
• Tim Hortons Gift Card for Birthdays
• Treats provided on overtime weekend shifts

Closing Date: September 9, 2025