Manufacturing Optimization Specialist

Cardinal Health is a leading healthcare company with over 1300 employees in Canada. We provide essential products to healthcare facilities and medical professionals across the country.

We are seeking a Process Engineer to join our Operational Excellence team (OPEX) at our Gananoque facility. This position will be responsible for executing strategic goals for operational excellence within Global Manufacturing and Global Technical Services organizations.

• Work with manufacturing excellence teams to identify, plan, and execute continuous improvement projects within internal manufacturing facilities.
• Develop and execute projects to support process optimizations and cost-savings initiatives.
• Assess current business performance using fact-based research techniques and maintain performance improvement scorecards and industry benchmarking.
• Provide technical support and guidance to Manufacturing Plant for engineering issues.
• Align with site leadership and other key stakeholders to develop and implement performance improvement recommendations.

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent work experience.
• 3+ years of experience working in medical device manufacturing settings preferred.
• Experience working with FDA Quality Systems Regulations and ISO Quality Systems preferred.
• Lean Six Sigma certifications preferred.
• Experience in Kaizen processes, implementations, and continuous improvement recommendations.
• Ability to lead teams toward operational objectives.
• Strong leadership, coaching, communication, and implementation skills required.
• Experience with change management and influencing, negotiating, and communicating across multiple organizational levels.

• Estimated annual salary: $95,000 - $115,000.
• Full dental and health benefits including life insurance from day 1.
• Pension plan with employer matching contribution.
• Incentive plan participation.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Sign-on Bonus.