Team Lead – Mechanical Manufacturing Engineering (Hybrid)

Your opportunity

By joining the Kardium team, you can help make a difference in the lives of millions around the world. We have developed a ground-breaking medical device for the minimally invasive diagnosis and treatment of the most common heart rhythm disorder, atrial fibrillation. Atrial fibrillation can cause stroke, heart failure, and other heart-related complications.

Kardium has a fantastic technical team that has developed a product with strong, unique and customer-valued differentiators versus other solutions on the market: The Globe® Pulsed Field System. We have built connections with key opinion leaders who are already using the Globe System and are helping to tell our story.

Kardium has a unique opportunity for an experienced Teal Lead – Mechanical Manufacturing Engineering. As a member of the Manufacturing Engineering team, the Team Lead will be responsible for managing all activities related to the transfer of product designs and manufacturing processes into production, collaborating with quality engineering on root cause analysis and resolution of nonconformances and leading the effort to optimize manufacturing process and equipment throughput to provide the most overall cost-effective manufacturing solutions. The team lead will be responsible for single use products. 

Please note, this opportunity is a hybrid work arrangement, located in Burnaby, BC.

What you’ll be doing

Your responsibilities will include:

• Responsible for design transfer, identification of manufacturing challenges and solutions, and process / equipment design.
• In collaboration with manufacturing management drive manufacturing engineering strategy to meet corporate targets.
• Lead a cross functional group that identifies manufacturing challenges and proposes effective solutions based on detailed investigation.
• Collaborate with Manufacturing and Equipment/Facility teams to continuously monitor. manufacturing floor layout, optimize line balancing and maximize capacity and throughput.
• Own execution of new layouts, changes and improvements for responsible area.
• Manage design, fabrication and implementation of production equipment.
• Lead or participate in product design-for-manufacture reviews with design engineering.
• Maintain and contribute to manufacturing documentation such as Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), Work Instructions (WI) and manufacturing process plans/template.
• Review PFMEA documentation and drive implementation of process risk mitigations.
• Establish and maintain suitable KPIs to track the performance of the manufacturing engineering team and change management process.

What you bring to the team

Our Kardium team is smart, creative, and passionate about developing cutting-edge medical devices to help improve people’s lives. We work in a collaborative environment based on trust and respect. We understand that only by working together can we solve what was thought unsolvable.

You are suited to our approach and possess these attributes:

• Minimum undergraduate degree in an engineering or appropriate scientific discipline.
• At least 5 years’ experience in a manufacturing engineering or continuous improvement management role, preferably in an ISO 13485 manufacturing environment.
• Extensive training and experience with statistical methods applicable to manufacturing, lean manufacturing and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Proven project management experience driving manufacturing improvement programs from inception through implementation.
• Worked closely with Engineering, QE, Supply Chain and Quality Assurance team in previous roles.
• Knowledge and experience with FDA cGMP regulations preferred.
• Able to teach and mentor staff in areas of manufacturing engineering and/or lean manufacturing.
• Flexible and adaptable to take on additional responsibilities as appropriate.

 Compensation

Kardium has listed the total cash compensation range that we expect to pay applicants for this role, as of the time of this posting. Pay offered will be determined based on numerous relevant business and candidate factors including, for example, education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, and business or organizational needs. For candidates with more experience than listed above, the pay range will be higher.

• $95,000 – 120,000 (CAD Annually)  

Your Benefits & Well-being

 The total cash we’ve listed for this position includes a base salary, plus a contribution to a Registered Retirement Savings plans (RRSP) to help support your financial goals.

 Comprehensive medical & dental coverage for all permanent employees – effective as of Day 1, with no waiting period.

 Work-day flexibility – additionally, we provide 3 personal days per year.

 Support for you (and your dependents) overall well-being.

 Family building – we provide top up for both maternity leave & adoptive leave. Employees can also enroll in benefit coverage for fertility drug treatment.

 Career progression and learning support.

  Professional membership support.

Life at Kardium

What makes us a great place to work?

At Kardium, we embrace diversity of background, experience, and perspective and we’re committed to inclusion and equity at every level. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates who represent the full diversity of all communities.

We collaborate with Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), as volunteer-led groups who share a common dimension of diversity and come together to provide support, education, and other opportunities across Kardium. Examples of our ERGs include Women ERG, Pride ERG, Race Ethnicity & Cultural Heritage (REACH) ERG, Truth & Reconciliation ERG, Persian Community ERG, Chinese ERG, Barangay Kardium (Filipino) ERG, and Irish ERG.

As part of your application, we encourage you to note if you require an accommodation for the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials, accessible meeting rooms or other accommodations). There will be an optional section in the application form where you can provide this information to the recruitment team.

And our employees think we are great too – check out Glassdoor to learn more!