Cardinal Health Canada, with over 1300 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 and effective, and our patients as healthy as possible. We are more than 450 employees with 119 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 Maintenance Supervisor for a full-time, permanent position within our Gananoque facility. As a member of the Senior Leadership Team, you will lead our site’s maintenance programs, develop strategies to improve these programs to the latest industry’s best practices. You will accomplish this by leveraging your team of highly skilled mechanical, electrical and facilities staff to collaborate with the operations and other site teams to achieve our site goals, within an FDA regulated 24/7 operation.

Key areas of responsibilities will be to deliver improvements to our site equipment reliability (OEE), maintenance Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), standardizing our preventative and predictive maintenance programs, while developing our entire workforce on maintenance excellence. This role also provides leadership to the supply’s storeroom and maintenance information system (Maximo).

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• As a technical leader and a member of the Senior Management Team your daily actions are expected to be carried out as a role model in exhibiting such behaviors and fostering the development of our corporate values: accountable, tenacious, inventive, adaptable, enthusiastic, competitive, open, direct, respectful, trusted and inclusive
• Implement maintenance excellence programs, technological advancements and best practices into our operations
• Must have a strong knowledge and understanding of reliability centered maintenance practices and sound engineering practices and principles
• Focus team around making reliable improvements in Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
• Proven ability to implement robust solutions to re-occurring opportunities
• Use logic and reasoning to identify alternative solutions, conclusions, and approaches to solving equipment problems. Must have strong analytical problem-solving skills
• Work closely with the Operations and Engineering Teams to coordinate maintenance events to include resource planning, changeovers, preventative maintenance and project scheduling
• Work with other Cardinal Health manufacturing facilities in spreading and adopting best practices
• Help develop, train and mentor Team Leads, Maintenance and Operations personnel
• Utilizes corporate capital processes to support project execution in a financially responsible fashion, in collaboration with Senior Leadership
• Support operations & maintenance, project teams by providing direct technical expertise during trouble shooting, optimization, center lining and maintenance activities.
• Coordinates and directs contractor activities
• Responsible for seeing 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
• Ability to work flexible hours to support operations
• Other duties as assigned

EDUCATION/TRAINING And/or EXPERIENCE

• 3-4 Year College Diploma (in related field) and/or Undergraduate Degree in Engineering (preferred)
• Minimum of 5-10 years industrial/manufacturing maintenance experience. At least 2-3 of those years in implementing reliability centered maintenance programs, principles, and equipment or process improvements
• Have an understanding of continuously based maintenance (CBM)
• Formal business management training, education and related experience (an asset)
• Industrial/manufacturing process and/or packaging automation experience
• Strong work ethic and a desire to exceed, must be a change agent
• Ability to lead and manage multi-disciplinary teams
• Open and engaging to effectively interface with others
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Working knowledge of quality system regulations
• Maintenance Information System experience (Maximo preferred)
• Proven track record of ability to handle multi-tasks simultaneously. Must be able to make decisions in an independent mode, if necessary
• Strong mechanical and electrical background
• PLC/Controls knowledge and experience
• Lean and Six Sigma tools and techniques an asset Solid trouble shooting skills

Our Employees All Benefit From

• Full dental and health benefits including life insurance from day 1
• Pension plan with employer matching level contribution
• Incentive plan participation
• Paid vacation days
• 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 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.