Engineering Manager

Job title: Engineering Manager

Job description: This is where you save and sustain lives

At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world. You’ll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients.

Baxter’s products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.

Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work.

Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives—where your purpose accelerates our mission.

Manage and direct the engineering team within the facility supporting the continuous operation of production manufacturing cells to ensure that projects and continuous improvements are completed within safety, quality, time, and cost constraints. Coach and develop leaders and technical team members to ensure a high level of performance, collaboration, skill level and engagement.

Major Responsibilities / Activities

• Manage a team of 6 Engineers
• Create and maintain an environment where team members experience personal and professional growth and become a more self-directed team through regular feedback and coaching
• Responsible for ensuring project implementation, and improvements are executed in a timely, efficient manner to support plant goals of OEE, Project Deadlines, safety, quality, and cost
• Responsible for overall management (including multi-million dollar budgets) of project timelines associated with generating equipment design specifications, procurement, design of experiments, factory acceptance testing, installation, coordination of validation activities, standard operating procedure (SOP) generation, and implementation in functional areas
• Provide review and approval of Engineering Work Orders, Master Change Controls, Exception Reports, Technical Summaries, Validation protocols, expense approvals and Captical Requests.
• Lead the capital planning process and create business cases and CER’s as required for presentation to senior leadership.
• Establish project requirements, vendor contracts, design and implementation plans in conjunction with other plant stakeholders.
• Oversee and develop capital equipment budgets, value improvement projects and equipment/process optimization
• Ensure departmental compliance with change controls and validation protocols.
• Utilize Lean principles to manage the successful completion of departmental tasks within the boundaries of safety, quality, time, and budget.
• Provide guidance, support, direction and leadership through positive interactions with plant team members, building synergies across value streams
• Ensure team skills are optimized through cross-training, mentorship, and indepth performance management and development planning
• Ensure quality and regulatory compliance.
• Drive energy management improvements to reduce cost and improve sustainability

• Provides strategic planning leadership by setting strategies and priorities based upon anticipation and application of industry trends and emerging technologies

JOB REQUIREMENTS

Required:

• Bachelors Degree in Engineering
• Professional Engineer of Ontario Designation

Preferred:

• Advanced Degree in Engineering, Science or Business

Major Subjects / Specialties

Required:

• Engineering/Sciences

Preferred:

• Blueprint Reading
• PLC/Instrumentation

Type of Experience

Required:

• Experience leading an Engineering group within a highly regulated manufacturing environment
• Project engineering/management from design to implementation
• Experience in leading diverse technical resources across a complex organization
• Demonstrated experience coaching, developing and leading a team of technical people

Preferred:

• Experienced in leading continuous improvement projects
• Lean Green/Black belt

Years of Experience

Required:

• Minimum of 8 years’ technical leadership (e.g. Engineering, Maintenance, Operations) and project management experience in a highly regulated environment

Preferred:

• More than 5 years’ engineering leadership experience in a related environment

Additional Skills / Special Training / Technical Skills Required

Required:

• High degree of innovation, skill and proficiency in various broad phases of engineering
• Ability to manage through a matrix environment to achieve results in a timely manner.
• Process-oriented and customer-focused.
• Strong written and oral communication skills, negotiation skills, ability to work with all levels of the organization.
• Ability to manage multiple projects/priorities to their successful completion.
• Ability to develop and adhere to budgets.
• Ability to coach direct reports and facilitate cross-functional meetings to collaboratively problem-solve to achieve results
• Passion for innovation, safety, quality and continuous improvement
• Ability to organize and present technical and project mgt overviews without assistance
• Knowledge of GMP manufacturing.
• Must have proficient computer skills
• People management experience including the ability to motivate and mentor

Preferred:

• Understanding of Heat and Mass Transfer
• Understanding of Fluid Mechanics
• Knowledge of PLC programming; good understanding of equipment automation
• 6 Sigma Certification

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Reasonable Accommodations

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Company: Baxter

Expected salary:

Location: Alliston, ON

Job date: Wed, 02 Mar 2022 08:58:45 GMT

Job Source: Careerjet.ca

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