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Current Openings

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    <h1 class="job-title">Manufacturing Manager (Onsite)</h1>\n    <h3 class="job-location"><a target="_blank" href="https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Burnaby%2C%20British%20Columbia%2C%20Canada&zoom=14&size=512x512&maptype=roadmap&sensor=false">Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada</a></h3>\n    <div class="job-content">\n

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Your opportunity

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By joining the Kardium team, you can help make a difference in the lives of millions around the world. Kardium is developing a ground breaking medical device for the minimally-invasive diagnosis and treatment of atrial fibrillation, a heart condition that can cause strokes, heart failure, and other heart-related complications.

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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.

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The Manufacturing Manager will be part of the Manufacturing & Supply Chain team. Please note, this opportunity is a hybrid work arrangement, located in Burnaby, BC.

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What you’ll be doing

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Your responsibilities will include:

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• Responsible for management and performance of one or more production lines
• Review production line metrics with supervisors and define strategies to correct deviations and excursions
• Engage with Manufacturing and Quality Engineering to make recommendations and implement changes to improve overall manufacturing performance
• Coordinate with the Continuous Improvement team to identify, define and implement 5S and other continuous improvement programs
• Assist Quality Engineering with nonconformance reviews and root cause investigations and recommend potential corrective actions
• Collaborate with Manufacturing Engineering to continuously monitor manufacturing floor layout, optimize line balancing and maximize capacity and throughput
• Coordinate with the Equipment Team to schedule equipment maintenance and minimize downtime
• Coach and mentor production supervisors and support advancement of technical abilities and career growth
• Ensure that the team is employing good manufacturing practices in all activities
• Manage and guide performance and compensation reviews for supervisors and manufacturing staff
• Review long term supply forecasts and work with supervisors to identify line constraints and resource requirements
• Drive a culture of safety and ensure health and safety requirements are implemented and followed by all manufacturing staff
• Engage with the training center to ensure training programs are reflective of manufacturing processes and needs
• Provide leadership and participate in engineering changes and technology transfer implementations
• Coordinate with Planning and Manufacturing Engineering to define the optimal schedule for cut in of engineering change orders
• Provide recommendations for design for manufacture and product cost reduction initiatives

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What you bring to the team

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Our Kardium team is smart, creative, and passionate about creating cutting-edge medical devices to help improve people’s lives. We work within a collaborative environment based on trust and respect. And we understand that only by working together can we solve the unsolvable.

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You are suited to our approach and possess these attributes:

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• B.Sc. BASc or BEng or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Minimum of 5 years of manufacturing management experience demonstrating increasing levels of responsibility
• Manufacturing experience in a highly regulated industry (aerospace, medical devices) preferred
• Knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)
• Proven experience guiding or driving implementation of continuous improvement programs
• Understanding of BC Occupational Health and Safety regulations an asset
• Flexible and wiling to take on additional responsibilities as assigned

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Why work at Kardium

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

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• Knowing every day that you are making a difference in people’s lives by helping treat a condition that debilitates millions worldwide
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• A great working environment with opportunities to develop your skills and knowledge
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• 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
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• An engaged leadership team who believes in mentoring and growing employees’ careers
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• Supportive and fun colleagues with plenty of social events to encourage people connections
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• And our employees think we are great too – check out Glassdoor to learn more!
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Thanks in advance for your interest in Kardium!

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