About The Company
Ecolab Inc. is a global company focused on delivering solutions and services that support cleaner, safer, and healthier environments. CoolIT Systems, an Ecolab company, was founded in Calgary, Alberta, in 2001 and is a leading provider of Direct Liquid Cooling technology for data centers, supercomputers, and desktop computers. The company designs and manufactures cooling solutions used by major technology companies around the world.
CoolIT has earned recognition for its growth and innovation, including placement on the Financial Times list of The Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies in 2023, the Deloitte Fast 50 Clean Technology award in 2022, and Deloitte Fast 500 recognition in 2021 and 2022. With demand increasing for generative AI, high-performance computing, and cloud solutions, CoolIT offers an opportunity to contribute to technology that supports rapidly evolving industries.
About The Role
As a Quality Engineer, you will help maintain product quality and customer satisfaction through structured testing, technical investigation, and effective problem-solving. You will troubleshoot product failures, determine root causes, and work with internal and external partners to develop corrective and preventive actions. Your findings will help inform customers, strengthen product reliability, and support the company’s continued innovation and growth.
This hands-on role combines failure analysis, testing, documentation, and collaboration. You will work with electro-mechanical products and systems, use test equipment and fixtures, and communicate technical findings clearly to colleagues and customers. The position may require travel of up to 10%.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Mechatronics, Electronics Engineering Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Three to five years of quality-related work experience.
- Legal authorization to work in Canada without company sponsorship.
- Strong written and spoken English skills for technical documentation and internal and external communication.
- Experience setting up and using data acquisition systems, sensors, and actuators is an asset.
- Hands-on experience with mechanical assembly and disassembly, and confidence using tools such as screwdrivers, wrenches, and hand drills.
- Ability to interpret technical drawings, inspection plans, quality control plans, and product specifications.
- Familiarity with manufacturing processes such as CNC machining, injection molding, extrusion, welding, additive manufacturing, and surface treatment.
- Experience with 3D modeling software, such as SolidWorks, and bench equipment, such as oscilloscopes, power analyzers, logic analyzers, and multimeters, is preferred.
- Demonstrated experience testing and qualifying electro-mechanical parts and systems, investigating product failures, preparing 8D reports, and recommending corrective and preventive actions.
Responsibilities
- Troubleshoot product failures and lead investigations to identify root causes.
- Develop and execute test plans that gather reliable evidence and support failure analysis.
- Design test fixtures and software solutions to improve the speed and effectiveness of testing.
- Collaborate with internal teams and external stakeholders to define and implement corrective and preventive actions.
- Prepare non-conformance reports (NCRs), 8D documentation, and other clear, accurate quality records.
- Provide customers with timely technical updates on investigations, test results, and resolution progress.
- Apply sound engineering judgment and attention to detail when evaluating product performance and recommending improvements.
Benefits
CoolIT aims to be an employer of choice by offering career and development opportunities in an innovative, collaborative environment. Benefits include vacation and flex days, plus a paid company-wide holiday shutdown. Comprehensive health coverage includes dental, prescription drugs, vision, paramedical services, and a health spending account, with coverage beginning on your first day. The workplace offers a casual yet professional dress-for-your-day approach. Employees may also receive tenure-based retention rewards, including additional vacation time and a monetary bonus through “The Big Coffee Break,” as well as company-funded RRSP contributions to support long-term financial goals.
Employment is conditional on satisfactory background checks, which may include criminal record and education verification. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
Equal Opportunity
Ecolab Inc. is committed to fair and equal treatment of associates and applicants and to advancing equal employment opportunity. Hiring, promotion, transfer, advancement, compensation, benefits, and working conditions are based on individual qualifications and job performance. Ecolab does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, age, disability, or any other status protected by applicable law.
