At Magna, our groups work together to deliver advancements in mobility to build a better world for everyone and everything.

Cosma International provides a comprehensive range of body, chassis, and engineering solutions to global customers. Through our robust product engineering, outstanding tooling capabilities and diverse process expertise, we continue to bring lightweight and innovative products to market.

Cosma Assembly Technology (CAT) is a division of Magna International, located in Brampton (ON, Canada), with offices in Troy (USA), Saltillo (Mexico), and Salzgitter (Germany). CAT helps its customers achieve world-class manufacturing by using the latest technologies to design and validate automotive assembly processes and concepts. CAT customers include some of the largest Magna production facilities around the globe.

Our business is engineering, but our greatest asset is the people who will drive the business forward. Our capabilities include 3D process design & simulation, 3D ergonomics analysis, fixture design, off-line programming, discrete event simulation, and the continuous improvement of existing assembly applications.

What you can expect
The ideal candidate should have proven knowledge in production, material management, data analysis, and process modeling. It is focused on creating static and dynamic simulation models to increase throughput, efficiency, and estimate adequate resource requirements to Magna production plants. The Simulation Engineer is fully knowledgeable about Discrete-Event/Agent-Based Simulation modeling and analysis, automotive production environment, materials management, and statistical analysis. The Simulation Engineer is capable of developing projects of high complexity with minimum supervision while keeping divisional quality, time, and customer satisfaction standards

Key Responsibilities
• Building Static and Dynamic Simulation models with focus on under-the-roof material flow, fleet estimation, congestion analysis, layout optimization with minimum supervision
• Making technical assumptions and offering alternative approaches within a framework of customary practices with minimum supervision
• Collecting data (on-site/off-site) to build, calibrate and validate models with minimum supervision
• Managing project data and meta-data, including procurement, logging, and dealing with unclear/incomplete information with minimum supervision
• Observing work related timelines, scope, and quality requirements with minimum supervision
• Developing modeling libraries 

Knowledge and Education
• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial or Mechanical Engineering
• Minimum 3 years work experience in related industry. (Automotive preferred)
• Strong knowledge and practical experience in Manufacturing Operation Patterns
• In-Depth knowledge and practical experience with simulation software like Simio, Arena, Siemens PlantSim or FlexSim
• Extensive knowledge and professional experience with Operational Equipment Efficiency (OEE) concepts
• Certification in project management, statistical analysis is an asset
• Excellent English skills (fluent in spoken and written, presentation skills)
• German language an asset

What you do have to bring in
• Flexibility and willingness to travel globally and have valid travel documents.
• Understands and follows established rules, procedures and policies relating to position.
• Ensure a safe working environment by observing safe work practices and by following all safety policies and procedures.
• Appreciate and maintain proper level of confidentiality.

What we offer
• Flexible working hours and hybrid work
• Health programs, sports and team events
• An extensive training program and exciting internal development opportunities
• Meal allowance

Additional Information

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