Team Lead - Equipment Maintenance (Onsite)

Kardium Inc.; Burnaby; On-site; CAD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Kardium Inc. seeks a Team Lead for Equipment Maintenance to manage the maintenance and calibration of manufacturing equipment for the Globe Catheter. This role involves overseeing the maintenance team and ensuring production efficiency in a highly regulated environment, with opportunities for professional growth in a supportive culture.

Benefits

Stock option plan

Comprehensive medical & dental coverage

Work-day flexibility

3 personal days per year

Family building benefits

Career progression support

Professional membership support

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years experience in equipment maintenance with leadership experience.
• Experience in ISO13485 or AS9100 regulated environments is preferred.
• Flexible and able to take on additional responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Monitoring production line uptime and addressing issues quickly.
• Planning and scheduling maintenance activities.
• Leading and mentoring the maintenance team.

Skills

Technical diploma

Diagnostic skills

Interpersonal skills

Critical thinking

Communication skills

Education

Technical diploma or equivalent

Job description

Team Lead - Equipment Maintenance (Onsite)

Job Description

Posted Wednesday, June 18, 2025 at 10:00 a.m.

Your opportunity

By joining the Kardium team, you can help make a difference in the lives of millions around the world. We have developed a ground-breaking medical device for the minimally invasive diagnosis and treatment of the most common heart rhythm disorder, atrial fibrillation. Atrial fibrillation can cause stroke, heart failure, and other heart-related complications.

Kardium has a fantastic technical team that has developed a product with strong, unique and customer-valued differentiators versus other solutions on the market: The Globe Pulsed Field System. We have built connections with key opinion leaders who are already using the Globe System and are helping to tell our story.

Kardium has a unique opportunity for an experienced Team Lead – Equipment Maintenance. As a member of the Manufacturing team, this Team Lead will be responsible for managing the maintenance and calibration manufacturing equipment used in the production of the Globe Catheter.

Please note, this opportunity is a on-site work arrangement, located in Burnaby, BC.

Due to the nature of our manufacturing operations, this role involves a rotating or variable schedule . Evening shifts (Eg. Until approximately 7pm) and/or weekend coverage will be part of the responsibilities of this role. Occasional work on statutory holidays may also be required. For candidates selected to interview, this will be discussed in more detail.

Meaningful work you will be a part of

Your responsibilities will include:

• Monitoring production line up time and actioning resourcing to address issues quickly
• Planning and scheduling maintenance activities
• Managing service agreements
• Review and support maintenance tickets
• Lead and mentor maintenance team
• Spare parts management, updating tickets/ERP to ensure spare parts are suitably checked in/out and restocked
• Management of inventory levels for spare parts
• Purchasing of equipment items
• Manage production tool inventory (non-equipment)
• Management of clinical support field kits and other similar items
• Coordination of calibrations

What you bring to the team

Our Kardium team is smart, creative, and passionate about developing cutting-edge medical devices to help improve people’s lives. We work in a collaborative environment based on trust and respect. We understand that only by working together can we solve what was thought unsolvable.

You are suited to our approach and possess these attributes:

• Technical diploma, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Minimum 5 years experience in equipment maintenance or servicing, with prior leadership experience
• Experience in a highly regulated manufacturing environment such as ISO13485 or AS9100 strongly preferred
• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities with a high degree of accuracy and timeliness
• Superior team building and interpersonal skills
• Experience working in a cleanroom environment is desirable
• Experience writing technical procedures and reports
• Strong diagnostic and critical thinking skills
• Effective written and verbal communication and technical documentation skills
• Flexible and able to take on additional responsibilities as appropriate

Compensation

Kardium has listed the total cash compensation range that we expect to pay applicants for this role, as of the time of this posting. Pay offered will be determined based on numerous relevant business and candidate factors including, for example, education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, and business or organizational needs. For candidates with more or less experience than listed above, the pay range will be adjusted.

As a permanent employee, you will also participate in Kardium’s stock option plan.

• $75,000 – 95,000 (CAD Annually)

Total cash – the total cash we’ve listed for this position includes a base salary, plus a contribution to a Registered Retirement Savings plans (RRSP) to help support your financial goals.

Comprehensive medical & dental coverage – for all permanent employees – effective as of Day 1, with no waiting period.

Work-day flexibility – additionally, we provide 3 personal days per year.

Support – for you (and your dependents) overall well-being.

Career progression and learning support.

Professional membership support.

Family building – we provide top up for both maternity leave & adoptive leave. Employees can also enroll in benefit coverage for fertility drug treatment.

Life at Kardium

What makes us a great place to work?

• Our Purpose
• Our People
• Our Culture

At Kardium, we embrace diversity of background, experience, and perspective and we’re committed to inclusion and equity at every level. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates who represent the full diversity of all communities.

We collaborate with Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), as volunteer-led groups who share a common dimension of diversity and come together to provide support, education, and other opportunities across Kardium. Examples of our ERGs include Women ERG, Pride ERG, Race Ethnicity & Cultural Heritage (REACH) ERG, Truth & Reconciliation ERG, Persian Community ERG, Chinese ERG, Barangay Kardium (Filipino) ERG, Brazilian ERG and Irish ERG.

As part of your application, we encourage you to note if you require an accommodation for the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials, accessible meeting rooms or other accommodations). There will be an optional section in the application form where you can provide this information to the recruitment team.

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