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Cardinal Health Process Engineer - Operational Excellence in Gananoque, Canada
Cardinal Health, with over 1300 employees in Canada, 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 and effective and our patients as healthy as possible. We are approximately 300 employees with 113 years of Canadian history, a deep understanding of the medical devices we manufacture every day and a passion for innovation.
We are currently seeking a Process Engineer to join our Operational Excellence team. This position will be based on-site at our Gananoque facility.
What Global Manufacturing Excellence contributes to Cardinal Health
Global Manufacturing Excellence is responsible for executing the strategic goals for operational excellence within the Global Manufacturing and Global Technical Services organizations including the selection and development of resources, managing the project pipeline, and ensuring ongoing communication about progress against goals. Works with multiple cross functional teams, business practitioners, and/or senior leaders and pursues independent actions to synthesize findings, develop improvement recommendations, and lead initiatives.
Responsibilities:
Work with manufacturing excellence team to identify, plan, and execute hands on continuous improvement projects within internal manufacturing facilities.
Identify, develop, and execute projects to support process optimizations and cost-savings projects.
Make assessments of current business and/or functional performance within the enterprise, using fact-based research techniques and maintaining performance improvement scorecards and industry benchmarking.
Provide technical support and guidance to Manufacturing Plant for engineering issues.
Support and guide test method validations, create test specifications.
Responsible for aligning with site leadership and other key stakeholders to develop and implement performance improvement recommendations.
Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in related field, or equivalent work experience, preferred.
3+ years of experience working in medical device manufacturing setting preferred.
Experience working with FDA Quality Systems Regulations and ISO Quality Systems preferred.
Lean Six Sigma certifications preferred.
Experience in Kaizen processes, implementations, and continuous improvement recommendations.
Ability to lead team toward operational objectives.
Strong leadership, coaching, communication, and implementation skills required.
Experience with change management and influencing, negotiating, and communicating across multiple organizational levels.
Travel expectations: 30%, possible international travel.
Our Employees all benefit from:
Full dental and health benefits including life insurance from day 1
Pension plan with employer matching contribution
Incentive plan participation
Tuition reimbursement
Cardinal Health is committed to employment equity and encourages applications from women, visible minorities, Aboriginal peoples, and persons with disabilities.
Cardinal Health is committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process, in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). Our Human Resources team is responsible for working with applicants requesting an accommodation at any stage of the hiring process.
Candidates who are back-to-work, people with disabilities, without a college degree, and Veterans are encouraged to apply.
Cardinal Health supports an inclusive workplace that values diversity of thought, experience and background. We celebrate the power of our differences to create better solutions for our customers by ensuring employees can be their authentic selves each day. Cardinal Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, veteran status, marital status, creed, status with regard to public assistance, genetic status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.
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