Systems Performance Engineering Associate I

At STERIS, we help our Customers create a healthier and safer world by providing innovative healthcare and life science product and service solutions around the globe.

As a Systems Performance Engineering Associate I you are instrumental in ensuring that our sterilization monitoring and control solutions are successfully tested, configured, commissioned, and maintained through the entire product lifecycle. In this role you will aide in ensuring that all new products and product updates are verified to our quality standards, successfully deployed, and validated at Customer facilities, and that knowledge is transferred prior to operation and supported/maintained as per Customer service level agreements. As a Systems Performance Engineering Associate you will work closely with the Applications and Controls development team, Mechanical/Electrical teams, and Customers to achieve these objectives.

This role requires in-person or onsite work 5 days per week at our Stittsville, Ontario location.

• Communicate and collaborate with design teams members.
• Adhere to all Quality Standard practices.
• Utilize Quality management tools.
• Contribute to a team effort by performing in accordance with all STERIS policies, GMP, Lean principles and other directives; support the directives and decisions of higher-level management and perform other duties as assigned.
• Determine system requirements, apply workflows, and perform system configurations.
• Read and interpret system functional specifications.
• Assist in the system testing on medical device sterilization control systems.
• Assist in validation and commissioning activities carried out in the office or at Customer sites.
• Assist with technical reports, diagnostic reports, validation reports, etc. under direct supervision.

Required:

• Associates degree or technical diploma and a minimum of 2 years related experience.
• Software and Systems Knowledge: Knowledge of software verification and support concepts, principles, and systems.
• Documentation and Communication: Ability to document system requirements, functional specifications, and create design specifications based on user or functional specifications with limited oversight. Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred:

• Diploma or bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, software engineering, mechatronics, industrial automation, or related field.
• Familiarity with (not necessarily development experience) software development languages and operating systems, control systems, and development tools such as .NET, C#, HTML/CSS, JavaScript/Angular, Web Platforms, SQL Server/SSMS.

Other:

• Skill in active listening and applying feedback.
• Skill to communicate in written format and verbally to a broad audience.
• Skill in communicating with Customers using simplified language to ensure they are fully informed.
• Skill in working with others effectively and efficiently as a team.
• Skill to manage time and competing priorities efficiently.
• Ability to troubleshoot, test, evaluate and provide creative solutions to problems during all systems development and testing phases.
• Ability to understand design specifications based on user or functional specifications.
  

The opportunity to join a company that will invest in you for the long-term. STERIS couldn't be where it is today without our incredible people. That's why we share in our success together by rewarding you for your hard work. Hiring people who are in it for the long run with STERIS is our ultimate goal. We do this by providing competitive salaries, healthcare benefits, tuition assistance, paid-time off, holidays, matching 401(k), annual merit, and incentive plans. Join us and help write our next chapter.

This posting is for an existing vacancy within our organization.

Pay range for this opportunity is $62, $80, This position is eligible for bonus participation, with an annual bonus opportunity of 5% of your fiscal year compensation, subject to the Bonus Plan's terms and conditions. 

STERIS is a leading global provider of products and services that support patient care with an emphasis on infection prevention. WE HELP OUR CUSTOMERS CREATE A HEALTHIER AND SAFER WORLD by providing innovative healthcare and life sciences products and services around the globe. For more information, visit 

STERIS strives to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.  STERIS is committed to treating all people in a way that allows them to ‎maintain their dignity and independence. We believe in integration and equal ‎opportunity. Accommodations are available throughout the recruitment process ‎and applicants with a disability may request to be accommodated throughout the ‎recruitment process.‎ We will work with all applicants to accommodate their individual accessibility ‎needs.