Team Lead - Equipment Maintenance

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 Team Lead – Equipment Maintenance. As a member of the Manufacturing team, this Team Lead will be responsible for managing the maintenance and calibration manufacturing equipment used in the production of the Globe Catheter.

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

What You’ll Be Doing

Your responsibilities will include:

• Monitoring production line up time and actioning resourcing to address issues quickly
• Planning and scheduling maintenance activities
• Managing service agreements
• Review and support maintenance tickets
• Lead and mentor maintenance team
• Spare parts management, updating tickets/ERP to ensure spare parts are suitably checked in/out and restocked
• Management of inventory levels for spare parts
• Purchasing of equipment items
• Manage production tool inventory (non-equipment)
• Management of clinical support field kits and other similar items
• Coordination of calibrations
  
  

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:

• Technical diploma, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Minimum 5 years experience in equipment maintenance or servicing, with prior leadership experience
• Experience in a highly regulated manufacturing environment such as ISO13485 or AS9100 strongly preferred
• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities with a high degree of accuracy and timeliness
• Superior team building and interpersonal skills
• Experience working in a cleanroom environment is desirable
• Experience writing technical procedures and reports
• Strong diagnostic and critical thinking skills
• Effective written and verbal communication and technical documentation skills
• Flexible and able 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.

$75,000 – 95,000 (CAD Annually)

Why work at Kardium

A meaningful career working with a truly innovative technology and an ambitious team, combined with:

• Knowing every day that you are making a difference in people’s lives by helping treat a condition that affects millions worldwide
• A great working environment with opportunities to develop your skills and knowledge
• An opportunity to extend your knowledge by interacting with other team members in a multi-disciplinary environment that includes electrical and mechanical engineers, biologists, and specialists in human factors, and clinical and regulatory affairs
• An engaged leadership team who believes in mentoring and growing employees’ careers
• Supportive and fun colleagues with plenty of social events to encourage people connections
• And our employees think we are great too – check out Glassdoor to learn more!
  
  

Thanks in advance for your interest in Kardium!

About Kardium

Kardium is a technology pioneer developing devices to address cardiovascular diseases. The company was founded in 2007 by a team with a track record of excellence in medicine, business, and engineering. Focused on building a world-class, internationally dominant medical device company, we believe in having lots of fun while working hard. We hire top individuals who are strong team players and trust them to make the right decisions to achieve our goals. Kardium has repeatedly been selected as one of the “Best Companies to Work for in BC” by BC Business Magazine and has ranked as the #1 Life Sciences and Health Services Company. In 2021 and 2015 Kardium was also awarded “Medical Technology Company of the Year” by Life Sciences BC. Visit our website at: www.kardium.com .

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