Employer: Kardium Inc.
Location: 155–8518 Glenlyon Parkway, Burnaby, BC V5J 0B6
Employment: Full-time, permanent
Compensation: $102,000–$120,000 annually, including base salary and a 5% RRSP contribution
Benefits: Stock options; medical and dental coverage; three personal days per year; employee and dependent well-being support; career development, learning, and professional membership support; maternity and adoptive leave top-up; and fertility drug coverage
Workplace Language: English
Your opportunity
Join Kardium in improving the lives of millions through our ground-breaking device for diagnosing and treating atrial fibrillation, a common heart rhythm disorder that can lead to stroke, heart failure, and other complications.
As Process Quality Engineering Team Lead – Operations, you will lead a team resolving quality issues in Catheter/Introducer subassembly processes, with a focus on non-conformance disposition and rework. You will be the primary contact for production quality concerns across two shifts.
Responsibilities
- Develop a detailed understanding of Kardium’s products and manufacturing processes and apply that knowledge proactively when overseeing production quality activities, investigations, and process improvements
- Lead and coordinate the day-to-day activities of process quality professionals in a fast-paced manufacturing environment, including assigning, prioritizing, and scheduling operational and project work to meet production needs
- Lead investigations with subject matter experts, review non-conforming products and materials, determine their disposition, and resolve production quality issues affecting assembly and subassembly work
- Support and drive continuous improvement initiatives, including investigations into systemic product quality issues and recommendations to improve manufacturing processes, workflow, and productivity
- Build and maintain strong cross-functional partnerships with Quality Control, Engineering, Manufacturing, and Quality Assurance to coordinate production quality activities and address operational priorities
- Train and mentor manufacturing team members on job responsibilities, quality procedures, safety requirements, and company policies, and provide input on staffing and personnel decisions
- Design, implement, and continuously improve processes for monitoring, evaluating, and reporting on product quality trends, process performance, and production quality activities
- At least 5 years of quality control experience in a multi-disciplinary manufacturing environment
- Manufacturing and quality control experience in medical device production
- Proven experience with non-conformances, failure investigations, root-cause analysis, and other quality assurance tools
- Demonstrated knowledge of statistics and concepts such as SPC, FMEA, process capability.
- Excellent technical communication and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to build consensus among diverse stakeholders