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Program Lead, Clinical Engineering

Toronto, Ontario
Senior Level
temporary

About the role

This is a Temporary Full-Time contract position up to eighteen (18) months. Make a lasting impact on patient care in a role that blends real-world innovation with strategic leadership. As Clinical Engineering Program Lead at Sinai Health, you’ll help shape our clinical technology strategy, ensuring life-saving medical devices are safe, reliable, and cutting-edge. By managing transformative projects within a collaborative multidisciplinary setting you’ll guide the adoption of new technologies, mentor a skilled team, and drive key initiatives that advance our standards. Your influence will extend across teams and departments, making a tangible difference in how innovation translates into safer, more effective patient care.

Is this you? If you're motivated by the challenge of solving high-stakes technical problems, this role offers the complexity and purpose you're looking for. You’re skilled at evaluating how emerging technologies such as AI-enabled monitors or robotic systems integrate in real clinical settings, considering performance, risk, and long-term impact. Your analytical mindset allows you to evaluate risks, plan strategically, and design preventive maintenance programs that strengthen system reliability. Paired with excellent problem-solving skills, you thrive on the confidence to make sound and timely decisions.

Are you someone who leads with clarity and purpose, motivating multidisciplinary teams to navigate complexity with confidence? You create alignment by translating technical goals into clear, actionable plans that make sense across roles. Whether coordinating with clinicians on equipment strategy or guiding project timelines with vendors, your communication keeps priorities visible and achievable. This leadership style helps your team stay responsive, even in fast-moving or high-stakes scenarios.

You see leadership as a chance to invest in others. By mentoring Clinical Engineers and Clinical Engineering Support Specialists, and by creating space for growth, you help your team build the skills and confidence needed for success in increasingly complex roles.

Integrity defines how you approach your work. By holding yourself and others accountable to safety, compliance, and ethical practice, you set a consistent standard that others can rely on. This builds trust, which is essential in a setting where technical decisions carry real clinical impact.

About This Team Our Clinical and Biomedical Engineering team is at the heart of health care technology management, ensuring that every piece of medical technology works flawlessly to support patient care. We are a passionate group of problem-solvers, innovators, and technical experts who partner with clinical teams to keep life-saving equipment safe, reliable, and cutting-edge.

From advanced systems to life-support devices, we manage and maintain the technology that makes exceptional care possible. We thrive on challenges—whether it’s rapidly troubleshooting critical equipment, optimizing performance, or implementing the latest advancements in medical technology.

What sets us apart? Collaboration, curiosity, and impact. We work side-by-side with physicians, nurses, allied health professionals, support staff and hospital leaders to make a real difference in patient outcomes. Our culture encourages creative thinking, professional growth, and hands-on experience with some of the most advanced technology in the industry.

If you’re driven by purpose, love tackling complex technical challenges, and want a career where your work truly matters— Sinai Health’s Clinical and Biomedical Engineering team is where technology meets compassion.

In This Role You Will

  • Manage a team of Clinical Engineers and Clinical Engineering Support Specialists in the delivery of a broad range of program-specific activities
  • Oversee major clinical engineering projects, including planning, execution, and evaluation
  • Ensure that the management of the human, financial and material resources supports the operating plan, priorities, organizational initiatives, goals, policies and vision
  • Lead budgeting, resource allocation, and capital acquisition planning activities including reviewing maintenance costs, managing service contracts, and preparing budget forecasts for new acquisitions
  • Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and risk management processes
  • Drive patient safety and quality improvement initiatives within the department
  • Develop and implement policies and procedures aligned with legislative and organizational requirements
  • Engage with internal partners in decision-making processes related to medical devices and systems
  • Provide technical leadership to other team members within Clinical and Biomedical Engineering, including organizing and conducting training on proper equipment use or troubleshooting
  • Assign tasks, set on-call schedules, determine service’s structure and lead specific internal meetings (e.g., equipment planning working group)
  • Prioritize service requests and escalating issues involving life-support or high-risk equipment that impact patient safety
  • Perform other duties consistent with the job classification as required

Job Requirements Mandatory

  • Master’s Degree in Biomedical Engineering
  • Professional Engineering License (P.Eng. license), or within a year of obtaining this role
  • 3 years of experience in clinical engineering

Preferred

  • Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
  • Certification in Clinical Engineering (CCE)

Skills & Knowledge

  • Proven ability to develop quality improvement programs and understand user needs
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain medical technology concepts clearly across all levels of the organization
  • Knowledge of the principles, theories, concepts, and practices of Clinical Engineering
  • Strong foundational knowledge of project management principles
  • Excellent financial acumen
  • Strong problem solving skills with the ability to assess complex situations and make effective decisions that impact patient care and safety

If this sounds like you and you feel ready to build your career within Clinical Engineering, apply now and let us know why you’d be a great addition to our team.

About Mount Sinai Hospital (Toronto), Sinai Health

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Mount Sinai Hospital, Joseph and Wolf Lebovic Complex which is part of Sinai Health, is an internationally recognized acute care academic health sciences centre.

Sinai Health was formed through the integration of Mount Sinai Hospital, Hennick Bridgepoint Hospital, the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, and the affiliation of our system partner, Circle of Care in 2015.

Mount Sinai has been designated with Exemplary Status from Accreditation Canada and every aspect of patient care is anchored in a rigorous quality plan and monitoring of safety and quality goals. Mount Sinai Hospital is the first hospital in Canada to receive Magnet® status for nursing excellence and patient care. The Hospital is considered to be a top employer in Canada, receiving multiple awards for its employment and culture centred programs.

Learn more about our Flagship Clinical Programs: http://www.mountsinai.on.ca/about_us/flagship-clinical-programs