Sr Operations Engineer

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.

As a Senior Operations Engineer you will be responsible for providing technical leadership and expertise to the entire Gananoque site, 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 use technical and lean manufacturing tools to complete a variety of plant continuous improvement projects. Projects may already be in a variety of statuses from non-existent to concept known to ready to implement. Drive activities that support corporate safety & quality programs.

• 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.
• Improve operational quality results by studying and evaluating statistics, recommending process designs, and ensuring IQ, OQ, PQ requirements are met when changes are made.
• Utilize 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 troubleshooting, optimization, center lining and maintenance activities.
• Ensure 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 problem opportunities and recommend solutions. Solve complex problems and take a broad perspective to identify solutions. Work independently with guidance only in the most complex situations.
• Apply statistical methods including DOE, SPC, Flow Charting, and FMEA tools as part of routine process analysis. Support 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.
• Work with external…