Project Manager

Nordion; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Sotera Health–Nordion is seeking a Project Manager (Ottawa) to lead multidisciplinary engineering projects from initiation to closeout. You will coordinate engineering, procurement, manufacturing, quality, logistics, and customer stakeholders to meet scope, schedule, and budget while ensuring safety and compliance.

The role requires at least 5 years of project management experience in a technical environment, with PMP preferred.

Qualifications

• Requires a post-secondary engineering or technical degree.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience managing/leading multiple complex technical projects.
• PM Certification (e.g., PMP) would be a strong asset.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, budgets, and resource forecasts.
• Coordinate all phases of project execution from concept through commissioning.
• Monitor progress, manage risks, and report status to leadership.

Skills

Project management

Agile

Waterfall

Leadership

Communication

Multitasking

Empathy

Education

Post-secondary engineering or technical degree

Tools

MS Word

MS Excel

MS PowerPoint

MS Project

Job description

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 9 of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies.Reporting to the Manager, Production Irradiator Engineering, the Project Manager is responsible for leading multidisciplinary engineering projects from initiation through commissioning and closeout. This role coordinates engineering, procurement, manufacturing, quality, logistics, and customer stakeholders to ensure successful project execution while meeting financial, schedule, quality, and customer satisfaction objectives.The Project Manager serves as the primary point of contact for customers and internal stakeholders and provides leadership to project teams to achieve project goals while managing risks, resources, budgets, and schedules.Key ResponsibilitiesDevelop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, budgets, and resource forecasts while considering commercial, technical, legal, and regulatory requirements, and track progress as per Nordion’s product development process.Collaborate with stakeholders to define project scope, deliverables, milestones, and success criteria.Lead project kick-off meetings and establish communication plans.Coordinate all phases of project execution from concept through commissioning.Monitor project progress and implement corrective actions as required.Manage project change requests and ensure proper documentation and approvals.Conduct regular project review meetings and provide status reports. Prepare and present project status reports to leadership.Manage customer expectations regarding scope, schedule, cost, and risk.Coordinate communication between internal departments.Identify project risks, maintain risks and issues log, implement risk mitigation strategies, and report/escalate issues to management as needed.Adhere to Nordion’s Environmental, Health & Safety Policies, Quality Management System, and any other organizational procedures.Ensure proper project documentation is maintained and support project audits.Ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget.QualificationsEducation:Post-secondary engineering or other technical degreeExperience:Minimum 5 years’ experience managing and/or leading multiple complextechnical projects, ideally with some experience managing engineering projectsCertificates:Project Management Certification, such as PMP, would be a strong assetSkills and CompetenciesDeep understanding of project management tools, techniques and best practices.Experience working and applying project management methodologies - traditional/waterfall, Agile and visual management.Strong working knowledge of MS products (Word, Excel, Power Point, Project), Recent and relevant working experience with management systems.Basic understanding of business principles and contracts.Ability to learn new tools and techniques quickly and grasp unfamiliar technical concepts quickly.Demonstrates a high degree of persuasive power and is a team player with high intrinsic motivation. Uses empathy to understand needs of others and uses that knowledge to motivate them. Sets an example that others willingly follow.Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills to actively listen and communicate in ways that foster trust and show flexibility. Easily adapt to varied roles on teams from follower to leader. Change approach or method to best fit the situation.Ability to excel in a self-directed work environment and influence across the organization. Knows what communication is needed to succeed and ensures it takes place.Ability to multitask and prioritize multiple concurrent projects.Fluent in English.The following aspects would be considered an asset:Prior experience in nuclear industry or similar high-reliability or regulated environments.Prior experience managing engineering projects and/or a technical background in engineering.Additional RequirementsOccasional overtime to meet project requirements.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.