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Engineering Manager, Controls & Industrial Automation

Sotera Health
Ottawa, CAN
Full-time
Manager · 10+ years experience
Onsite
Discovered 3 weeks ago
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Key Responsibilities

  • This position is a leadership role working closely with the other Engineering and Design teams, responsible for building team capability, establishing processes, coordinating cross‐functional efforts, and ensuring that projects are executed effectively. The role requires strong understanding of safety, PLC control, SCADA systems, and system integration. Manager responsibilities include staffing, performance management, employee development and engagement, and succession planning.
  • Provide people leadership to both internal and external development teams
  • Manage external vendors, including contract management, external resources, and budgets
  • Build and develop the Controls, Electrical, and Industrial Automation Engineering team, by establishing structure, talent strategy, performance expectations, and long‐term capability growth within Nordion
  • Drive service revenue to meet business objectives, develop new growth opportunities, and provide plans to meet those growth opportunities
  • Engage with customers to define the long‐term Controls and Industrial Automation Systems Roadmap, ensuring alignment with business needs, operational goals, and our innovation direction with customers to define the long‐term Controls System Roadmap, ensuring alignment with business needs, operational goals, and our innovation direction.
  • Partner with the Product Manager and Engineering leadership to shape product business cases and guide the innovation roadmap to support Nordion’s strategic objectives.
  • Champion industrial automation initiatives that improve process efficiency, reliability, and safety across facilities
  • Ensure projects are delivered on time, on budget, and successfully

Qualifications

  • Engineering degree, with P.Eng designation
  • Management experience: minimum 3 years managing Technicians and Controls Engineers (people management)
  • Technical knowledge: at least 10 years combined experience post-graduation in controls engineering
  • Leadership: at least 8 years of experience (combination of people, project, and indirect supervision)
  • Skills and Competencies
  • Experience with Allen Bradley/Rockwell PLCs (working/intermediate level)
  • Experience with Aveva InTouch (working/intermediate level)
  • Experience with industrial automation platforms and system integration
  • Knowledge about virtual machines, networking, and cybersecurity
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Strong organizational and time management skills
  • Project management & budgeting skills
  • Presentation skills
  • Coaching and development skills
  • Experience working in a regulated environment (preferred)
  • Problem-solving and decision-making abilities under pressure
  • This role includes occasional overtime to meet project requirements
  • Travel requirements (10-60 days international travel requiring valid Canadian passport)
  • Training Required
  • Must complete all required training and certification as a Nuclear Energy Worker.
  • 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.

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