Plant Manager

SteriPro Canada is a leading medical devices reprocessing company, providing leading practice reprocessing and sterilization services from its facility in Mississauga, Ontario, and on-site at its partner hospitals. We are experts in the field of Medical Device Reprocessing, and are current with all standards and regulations set by the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) for the reprocessing and sterilization of reusable medical instruments and devices. SteriPro is committed to continue improving the Medical Device Reprocessing profession.

We are looking for a Plant Manager who has intensive experience working in unionized environment to join our team in Mississauga mainly for 3pm to 11pm shift. Plant Manager is responsible for overall effectiveness of day-to-day manufacturing operations through direction of personnel in the management of safety, quality, customer service, efficient utilization of resources, equipment, materials and manpower procedures and programs.

**OVERALL RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Overall production management duties
- Ensure adherence to position related SOPs, QMS, ISO9001 and ISO13485.
- Follow all the applicable Health Canada and CSA z314 MDR regulations.

**MAIN DUTIES**

Plant Manager is responsible for:

- Evaluate production efficiencies and optimize processes to ensure elements of Lean are incorporated within the operations environment
- Develop and maintain all aspects of production and operations related to our onsite reprocessing business
- Maintain optimal production throughput levels and manage any variances to the objectives outlined in our Production schedule
- Ensuring timely delivery of products, along with associated quality metrics and key performance indicators
- Analyze cost and quality data and implement changes to support effective work assignments and the optimization of our processes
- Manage all aspects of work performance, work assignment while ensuring the correct levels of staffing are available to support Production
- Support the Occupational Health and Safety program to ensure a healthy, safe and active workplace is available to all employees
- Partake in the necessary committees of our business to support quality and the Canadian Standards related to Reprocessing
- Ensure the financial elements related to Production are adhered to and managed / budgeted accordingly.
- Support & execute elements of the Quality Management Systems i.e. SOP, policies, forms and general documentation is completed accurately.
- Manage Non-Conformances, corrective actions and initiate Root Cause Analysis, where required.
- Maintain the integrity of the organization and the practices they follow
- Assist in investigations and reporting of accidents and incidents

**HEALTH & SAFETY COMPLIANCE**
- Ensure adherence to Health and Safety Regulations.
- Conduct Health and Safety walk throughs and inspections.
- Participates in Evacuation Drills—staff education on nearest exits.
- Training required: WHMIS
- Enforce employee adherence to Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) polices
- Promote safe workplace practices and prevent workplace accidents.
- Follows SteriPro Safety Rules.

**Key Contacts / Relationships Internal and External**
- Hospital clients
- Director of Operations
- Departmental Managers
- Shift Supervisors
- Instrument Technicians
- Union representatives
- Quality Assurance team
- Information Technology team

**Educational / Professional Development / Work Experience Requirements**
- A college diploma or university degree in Operations Management
- Minimum 3 - 7 years of strong supervisory or management experienced in a manufacturing or production environment, prefarably in the field of Medical Device Reprocessing
- Experience supervising or managing unionized employees
- Quality systems or ISO course

**Technical**:

- Knowledge of labour relation and human resources practices and procedures including Occupational Health and Safety
- Ability to read and interpret contract and collective agreement language
- Ability to interpret collective agreement language
- Strong knowledge of lean, ISO, and throughput methodologies
- Identify and track trends and implement best practices
- Understanding of KPIs, accreditation, CSA and other standards and metrics.

**Behavioral Competency Required**:

- Quality orientation
- Personal credibility
- Ethics and integrity, confidentiality
- Interpersonal skills
- Presentation, and communications skills (oral and written)
- Coaching, counselling
- Organizational skills
- Conflict resolution
- Decisiveness
- Development and continuous learning of self and others
- Leadership
- Ability to work well under pressure
- Demonstrated business acumen while strategically assessing business needs from a human resources perspective
- Ability to identify organizational needs and to conceptualize, initiate, coordinate and manage the implementation of solutions in response to the needs
- Analytical and problem solving,
- Personal initiative

**Salary**: $95