Manager Production

Nordion; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic leader for their Monitoring, Decontamination, and Shipping team. This role is pivotal in ensuring effective management of transport packages and adherence to quality and safety standards in a production environment. With a focus on coaching and motivating a dedicated team, you will drive performance and accountability while collaborating with various stakeholders. This opportunity offers a chance to make a significant impact in a company committed to safeguarding global health through innovative sterilization processes. If you are passionate about leadership and operational excellence, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of supervisory experience in production-manufacturing.
• Bachelor's degree in a Science discipline preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide management oversight to ensure execution of daily production plans.
• Ensure quality production standards and adherence to safety regulations.

Skills

Leadership Skills

Time Management

Change Management

Cultural Sensitivity

Excellent Verbal and Written Skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a Science discipline

Tools

Lean Sigma Certification

Nuclear Security Clearance

Job description

Reporting to the Sr Manager, Production, this role will provide effective leadership to the Monitoring, Decontamination and Shipping team. This role will also have responsibility for the management of the transport packages utilized for Nordion class 7 shipments. This includes supply and demand modeling as well as ensuring execution of all maintenance and repairs of the transport packages.

Key Responsibilities

1. Provide management oversight to a team to ensure the execution of daily production plan - including coaching; performance management; selection and training.
2. Ensure that quality production standards are followed and maintained while monitoring production, inventory, safety, and maintenance programs.
3. Ensure that employees adhere to all safety regulations, policies and procedures.
4. Ensure effective utilization of transport packages.
5. Motivate and mentor team to drive team performance.
6. Create environment of integrity, authenticity, trust, collaboration, straight-talk, and respect.
7. Accountability for business outcomes as related to cost of sales, expenses, and capital budgeting.
8. Generate opportunities to enhance the standard of quality, safety, and excellence.
9. Design simplicity, timeliness, quality, and cost optimization into all customer requirements/deliveries.
10. Collaborate and integrate with other internal and external stakeholders.

Qualifications

1. Preferably a Bachelor’s degree in a Science discipline.
2. A minimum of six years prior supervisory experience in a production-manufacturing environment.

Skills and Competencies

1. A knowledge and understanding of nuclear facility and operation is an asset.
2. Excellent time management skills and the ability to handle multiple tasks without losing focus on priorities.
3. Lean Sigma certification will be considered an asset.
4. Demonstrated strong leadership skills and experience in change management.
5. Understands union culture and experienced working with a unionized environment. Cultural sensitivity is also required.
6. Excellent verbal and written skills.
7. This position may require occasional shift work on weekends, includes working in a combination of office and industrial environments.
8. Nuclear Security Clearance is an asset.

Job Info

• Job Identification: 13106
• Job Category: Mfg/Operations
• Posting Date: 03/06/2025, 03:44 PM
• Locations: 447 March Rd., Ottawa, Ontario, CA
• Degree Level: Bachelor's Degree
• Job Schedule: Full time

About Us

The name Sotera Health was inspired by Soteria, the Greek goddess of safety, and reflects the Company’s unwavering commitment to its mission, Safeguarding Global Health. Sotera Health Company is a leading global provider of mission-critical sterilization and lab testing and advisory services for the healthcare industry. With a combined tenure across our businesses of nearly 200 years and our industry recognized scientific and technological expertise, we help to ensure the safety of millions of patients and healthcare practitioners around the world every year. Across our 64 facilities worldwide, we have over 3,000 employees who are dedicated to safety and quality. We are a trusted partner to more than 5,800 customers in over 50 countries, including more than 40 of the top 50 medical device companies and 8 of the top 10 global pharmaceutical companies.

Sotera Health goes to market through its three best-in-class businesses – Sterigenics, Nordion and Nelson Labs. Sterigenics is a leading global provider of outsourced terminal sterilization and irradiation services for the medical device, pharmaceutical, food safety and advanced applications markets. Nordion is the leading global provider of Co-60 and gamma irradiators, which are key components to the gamma sterilization process. Nelson Labs is a global leader in outsourced microbiological and analytical chemistry testing and advisory services for the medical device and pharmaceutical industries. Learn more about Sotera Health at soterahealth.com.

About the Team

Nordion is a leading global provider of Cobalt-60 used in the sterilization and irradiation processes for the medical device, pharmaceutical, food safety, and high-performance materials industries, as well as in the treatment of cancer. Nordion supplies products to more than 40 countries around the world. Learn more about Nordion at www.nordion.com.

Safeguarding Global Health - with every Cobalt-60 source we supply.