Build Your Career at Linamar
Success Equals Teaching & Educating Employees at Linamar.
STEEL, speaks to strength. It’s all about the strength of our talent, which is what makes Linamar a strong company.
We are a fast-paced and challenging work environment focused on long-term learning and personal growth.
Our markets are truly global in nature. Our customers increasingly asking us to support their global operations wherever in the world that may be. They are present in many segments:
- Electrification
- Light vehicle
- Commercial vehicle
- Zugang
- Landwirtschaft
This means that Linamar’s employees have work opportunities to travel to overseas locations and take international work assignments that help ensure technical skills, global operating procedures (GOS) and company best practices are consistently applied in all of our world-class facilities.
Linamar believes the company’s best future leaders come from within.
With this concept in mind, we have created an internal goal: 70% of all new positions or current openings must be filled from within its current employee base. This means increased opportunities for professional advancement and promotion for those employees who choose to build their careers at Linamar.
Professional Development
Developing a culture in which people can flourish is essential to truly maximizing potential. Our strong leadership culture is communicated, demonstrated, and rewarded at all levels of the organization. The result: capable, motivated people whose potential is unleashed through a multi-faceted approach to growth and development.
We offer a variety of experiences that support the personal growth and development of our people. Through leadership training and development opportunities, we help our employees move in the direction they want to go, helping them drive the results necessary for their success and ours.
Linamar Entrepreneurial Advancement Program (LEAP)
LEAP is a 3-5 year management development program designed to give potential candidates the skills, experience, confidence and perspective they need to become future operational leaders. Participants selected for this advanced management training program rotate through each functional area of the business at several locations throughout the company. The ideal candidate is a dynamic, high potential individual who would be ready to take on at least a Plant Operating Committee level management role within 3 years. This fast-paced, fast-track program helps us to ensure we have qualified people in the leadership roles that matter!
Linamar Leadership Development Program (LLDP)
We know that strong, purposeful leadership is required to drive our success; that is why we provide our leaders with the best practices that help them to plan, communicate and execute in a way that demonstrates passion and edge. Our LLDP programs address critical leadership skills for each level of the organization. These programs are grounded in our Core Values and Leadership Behaviors and focus on essential outcomes. We know that leadership is about getting things done through others, so we give our leaders the knowledge, skills and tools they need to cultivate loyalty and commitment in their people. Great leaders, you’ll find them here!
Linamar Advanced Manufacturing Program (LAMP)
The Linamar Advanced Manufacturing Program (LAMP) is a two-year technical development program. Participants spend two years working rotations in the Tool Room, Engineering, Quality Assurance, and Production departments of different Linamar facilities. During the rotation portion of the program, participant learning is guided by technical learning outcomes (TLOs) in each of the four technical skill areas. Participants also receive training in financial acumen and attend Pre-LLDP training to support their integration into their new role at a facility upon graduation from the program.
Each One, Teach One
To ensure that we have the right people in the right jobs at the right time, we keep an eye on our high potential employees and offer the opportunity to align their skills, experience and development goals with outstanding new opportunities. To help them grow with us, we offer development activities such as stretch assignments, mentoring, job shadowing and specialized training; all of this drives our high-performance culture.
The diversity and growth opportunities. Linamar isn’t only a powerhouse of automotive manufacturing; there is MacDon (agricultural), Skyjack (industrial), as well as new businesses and technologies in the medical fields. Linamar does a fantastic job at promoting from within, and if you are driven and motivated, you will have the opportunity to climb up the ranksLina, LEAP Rotation
The opportunity for growth and contribution to team success regardless of your position is everywhere! Linamar is large company with plenty of work to do! If you are willing to learn, work hard and push yourself, you can have an amazing career in a very exciting industry, working for a great Canadian company.Matt, Operations Manager | PowerCor