Manufacturing Technology Specialist - Hamilton

Modern Niagara; Hamilton; On-site; CAD 74,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus opportunities

Pension plan

Health & dental

Health spending account

EAP

Vacation package

Parental leave top-up

Community day

Corporate discounts

Job summary

Modern Niagara seeks a Manufacturing Technology Specialist to bridge shop floor operations with IT and vendor teams, translating needs into actionable technology improvements for manufacturing systems. You will gather requirements from supervisors, fabricators, and estimators, coordinate deployments, training, and go‑live readiness, and contribute to continuous improvement across ERP/MES platforms.

This role requires strong stakeholder management, organizational skills, and occasional travel to

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years in a role supporting manufacturing, ERP, MES, or operational tech systems.
• Knowledge of MRP, work orders, BOMs, inventory, and production workflows.
• Ability to translate business needs to technical teams and vendors.
• Experience coordinating priorities across users, tech teams, and vendors.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to act as a coordinator and business liaison, not a developer.
• Excellent organizational skills with multiple simultaneous priorities.
• Ability to travel periodically to facilities.

Responsibilities

• Serve as primary contact for shop supervisors, fabricators, and estimators on technology questions and requests.
• Gather, document, and communicate manufacturing requirements for system enhancements.
• Translate shop floor needs into actionable info for IT teams, vendors, and partners.
• Represent manufacturing in planning discussions with IT, data, vendors, and other stakeholders.
• Communicate updates, timelines, and priorities back to end users.
• Coordinate between operations and teams supporting manufacturing systems and platforms.
• Track issues, enhancement requests, and implementation priorities across teams.
• Support prioritization of the technology roadmap with leadership.
• Coordinate user acceptance testing, training schedules, and go-live readiness.
• Develop training materials and user enablement resources.
• Collect and triage user feedback after implementations and changes.
• Identify process challenges and improvement opportunities for teams.

Skills

Manufacturing BA liaison

MRP & BOMs

Requirements gathering

Stakeholder mgmt

Coordination liaison

Multitasking

Travel flexibility

Tools

Epicor ERP

SolidWorks

WMS

Job description

Role Summary

The Manufacturing Technology Specialist serves as the bridge between manufacturing operations and the technology teams that support them. This role gathers and translates business requirements, coordinates technology initiatives, and helps ensure manufacturing systems effectively support shop floor operations, user adoption, and continuous improvement.

Why This Role Matters to Modern Niagara

As Modern Niagara continues investing in manufacturing facilities, processes, and capabilities, technology plays a critical role in supporting operational efficiency and scalability. This position helps ensure that the needs of shop supervisors, fabricators, estimators, and operations teams are clearly understood by technical teams and vendors, resulting in solutions that support productivity, adoption, and long‑term business success.

Key Impact / Purpose

• Connect manufacturing operations with internal technology teams and external vendors to ensure business needs are translated into effective solutions.
• Support the successful implementation, adoption, and continuous improvement of manufacturing technology platforms.
• Improve operational efficiency by identifying process improvements and coordinating technology enhancements.
• Ensure technology initiatives, support activities, and user feedback are effectively managed across multiple stakeholders.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary point of contact for shop supervisors, fabricators, and estimators regarding manufacturing technology questions, issues, and enhancement requests.
• Gather, document, and communicate business requirements from manufacturing and operations stakeholders for system enhancements, fixes, and new capabilities.
• Translate shop floor requirements into clear and actionable information for internal technology teams, vendors, and support partners.
• Represent manufacturing operations in planning discussions with IT, Data & Analytics, vendors, and other technology stakeholders.
• Communicate updates, timelines, priorities, and outcomes back to end users to ensure transparency and alignment.
• Act as the coordination point between manufacturing operations and the teams responsible for supporting manufacturing systems and technology platforms.
• Track open issues, enhancement requests, implementation activities, and support priorities across multiple teams.
• Support prioritization of the manufacturing technology roadmap and backlog in partnership with Digital Manufacturing and technology leadership.
• Coordinate user acceptance testing, training schedules, and go‑live readiness activities for new systems and enhancements.
• Support the development and delivery of training materials and user enablement resources.
• Collect, triage, and communicate user feedback following implementations and system changes.
• Identify recurring process challenges, user pain points, and operational inefficiencies and bring improvement opportunities forward to the appropriate teams.
• Maintain an understanding of manufacturing technology roadmaps, system capabilities, and platform limitations.
• Contribute operational perspectives to system configuration, process design, and technology prioritization decisions.

Must Haves

• 3-5+ years of experience in a Business Analyst, Systems Liaison, Technology Coordinator, Product Owner, or similar role supporting manufacturing, ERP, MES, or operational technology systems.
• Working knowledge of manufacturing and ERP concepts including MRP, work orders, bills of materials (BOMs), inventory management, and production workflows.
• Strong ability to gather, document, and communicate business requirements to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Experience coordinating priorities and activities across business users, technology teams, and external vendors.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and relationship‑building skills.
• Ability to operate as a coordinator and business liaison rather than a technical developer or support specialist.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities, requests, and implementation activities simultaneously.
• Ability to travel periodically to manufacturing facilities to maintain a firsthand understanding of operations.

Nice to Haves

• Familiarity with Epicor or a comparable mid‑market or enterprise ERP platform, particularly MRP and inventory management processes.
• Experience with SolidWorks or comparable modeling and detailing platforms from a user, administrator, or functional support perspective.
• Exposure to warehouse management systems (WMS) implementations or inventory technology initiatives.
• Experience working in industrial manufacturing or production environments.
• Experience working alongside IT service desks, application support teams, software vendors, or implementation partners.
• Experience supporting technology rollouts, user adoption initiatives, or business process improvements within manufacturing operations

Expected annual compensation; $74,000-$120,000

Modern Niagara offers a competitive total compensation package including:

• Performance based bonus opportunities.
• Defined Contribution Pension Plan with a generous employer contribution.
• Flexible Health and Dental benefits with tiered options to meet the needs of you and your family.
• An annual health spending account to support your overall wellness.
• 24/7 confidential support through our Employee and Family Assistance Program with access to comprehensive resources and professional services.
• A competitive vacation package with additional vacation granted throughout your tenure with the organization.
• Employer Paid Parental Leave Top Up.
• Annual Community Day dedicated to volunteering and giving back to the communities where we live and work.
• Corporate Discounts through various vendors across Canada for programs such as fitness, mobile phones, travel, home and auto insurance and many others.
• Here at Modern Niagara, because we know our people are the best in the industry, we pride ourselves on providing a total compensation package that rewards employees for their hard work and supports employees and their families in their overall wellbeing.

About Modern Niagara

Who We Are

Modern Niagara helps building owners, managers, and general contractors meet the mechanical, electrical, integrated building technology, and building services needs of their buildings across Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Southwestern Ontario, and Ottawa. We are committed to having a positive and meaningful impact on Canada’s infrastructure — and on the communities where we live, learn, work, and heal. We build for life.

Our Culture & Values

We value passion, initiative, determination, professionalism, and teamwork. Health and safety are embedded in everything we do, and our award‑winning safety culture consistently performs well above industry standards.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Modern Niagara

We are committed to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organization where everyone has access to opportunity, feels a sense of belonging, and can thrive. We actively work to remove barriers faced by members of equity‑seeking groups (including women, Indigenous, Black, racialized, 2SLGBTQIA+ people, people with disabilities, and newcomers to Canada) in the construction industry. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and lived experiences and are committed to a barrier‑free hiring process.

Accommodation

If you require accommodation at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact us at [e-mail] so we can make appropriate arrangements.

We appreciate every applicant's interest in joining Modern Niagara. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.