# Prototype Shop Technician - 3 Month Term

**Company:** [New Flyer](http://jobs.workable.com/companies/6wJA4XBiiYGn3oG8E8Mt3r.md)
**Location:** Winnipeg, Canada
**Workplace:** on site
**Employment type:** Temporary
**Department:** Engineering - Reliability Simulation & Testing

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## Description

**New Flyer** is North America's heavy-duty transit bus leader and offers the most advanced product line under the Xcelsior® and Xcelsior CHARGE® brands. It also offers infrastructure development through NFI Infrastructure Solutions™, a service dedicated to providing safe, sustainable, and reliable charging and mobility solutions. Further information is available at [www.newflyer.com](http://www.newflyer.com/).

**POSITION GOAL:**

Design, build, and test products to meet the present and future needs of “NFIL” as directed by the Director of New Product Development.

### **Responsibilities:**

-   Construction of prototype parts, assemblies, and installations, working from drawings, sketches, verbal instruction.
-   Provide feedback to engineering on drawings, designs, and theories of operation, understand and navigate BOM and engineering drawing systems.
-   Working with hand and power tools, fabrication equipment and test equipment, some lifting and climbing required.
-   Operation of heavy equipment such as forklift or bus.
-   Write reports and test documentation, use of PC, Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.
-   Set-up and perform tests from a requested plan; emerging technology. 
-   Knowledge transfer from NPD shop various departments.
-   Shop maintenance and cleaning.
-   Other duties as requested

## Requirements

-   Post-secondary certificate or technology degree.
-   3-5 years of relevant experience
-   Ability to read contractions drawings, schematics, details drawings.
-   Knowledge of engineering drawings, design, aesthetic, and ergonomic principals.
-   Knowledge of warehouse and inventory systems, scientific test methods, FMEA, maintenance, lean manufacturing, continuous improvement