Sr Operations Engineer

Cardinal Health•Gananoque, ON

3d•$74,300 - $123,700•Onsite

About The Position

Cardinal Health Canada, with over 1400 employees nationwide, is an essential link in the Canadian healthcare supply chain, providing over 70,000 products to healthcare facilities and medical professionals across the country. Cardinal Health Gananoque manufactures many life impacting medical devices that help our customers thrive in a changing world. We are your humble partners, striving each day to make healthcare more efficient, providers more effective and our patients as healthy as possible. We are more than 250 employees with 119 years of Canadian history, a deep understanding of the medical devices we manufacture every day and a passion for innovation. We apply our industry experience and expertise to help you reduce the total cost of healthcare so you can focus on improving the lives of our patients. We utilize our scale and knowledge to create and provide solutions across our entire product portfolio—not just at certain points, but from start to finish; not only today, but well into the future. We’re accountable for our results and proud of the work we perform. We are currently seeking a Senior Operations Engineer to join the team on a full time permanent basis, to sit in our Gananoque Manufacturing facility. As a Senior Operations Engineer you will be responsible for providing technical leadership and expertise to the entire Gananoque site, yet focused on operations & maintenance for the specification, design, installation, start-up, and sustenance of facility processes and support equipment. You will manage multiple projects of various scale and provide support to project teams, particularly as it applies to production processes and support equipment in support of an FDA regulated 24/7 manufacturing environment. You will be responsible for using technical and lean manufacturing tools to complete a variety of plant continuous improvement projects. Projects may already be in a variety of different statuses from non-existent, to concept known, to ready to implement. Drive activities which support corporate safety & quality programs. For more information on what it is like to work for us, please watch this video: Cardinal Health - Wings.

Requirements

Undergraduate Degree in Mechanical/Electrical Engineering with P. Eng. certification is required
Minimum of 8+ years industrial/manufacturing engineering experience
Strong project management skills with 2-3 years of working experience of infrastructure planning, installing or integrating new technology
Industrial/manufacturing process and/or packaging automation experience
Sound analytical and strategic thinking, planning, prioritization and execution skills
Ability to lead and manage cross-functional teams

Nice To Haves

Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma certification/experience an asset
Experience in a regulatory environment (cGMPs) is an asset
Working knowledge of Quality Management, Auditing, and ISO

Responsibilities

Manage multiple projects of various scale associated with manufacturing/industrial design, new facility layouts, facility upgrades, and design and installation of new production and material handling equipment, process improvements, cost containments, yield improvements, and scrap reduction.
Improves operational quality results by studying and evaluating statistics, recommending process designs, and ensures IQ, OQ, PQ requirements are met when changes are made.
Utilizes corporate capital processes to support project execution in a financially responsible fashion, in collaboration with Senior Leadership.
Develop and manage annual capital/department budgets to ensure flawless project delivery.
Track and report cost savings delivered from these projects.
Understand Corporate Capital Acquisition Requests (CAR) process and initiate new capital projects.
Implement technology advancements, continuous process improvements, and best practices into operations.
Support operations & maintenance, project teams by providing direct technical expertise during trouble shooting, optimization, center lining and maintenance activities.
Responsible for evaluating that all related activities are performed in a manner that complies with the Cardinal Quality Management, Safety or Environmental Management Systems, and all governing regulatory bodies.
Recommend and purchase new equipment to advance product defect detection and plant automation.
Interpret internal and/or external business problems opportunities and recommends solutions.
Solves complex and takes a broad perspective to identify solutions.
Works independently with guidance in only the most complex situations.
Apply statistical methods including DOE, SPC, Flow Charting, and FMEA tools as part of routine process analysis.
Support for manufacturing issues, CAPA’s, SCARS and audits.
Develop, execute and document protocols and reports for test methods, process studies and process validations, maintain accurate and compliant documentation to meet company and regulatory expectations.
Drive process improvements for existing manufacturing products and processes, process development for new products and root cause understanding for production issues.
Works with external vendors and engineering firms to design work for equipment or to improve processes.