Director, Biomedical Engineering

Who We Are

London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) is a world-class academic health sciences centre located in the southwestern Ontario city of London. Just two hours from Toronto and two hours from Detroit, London features a beautiful and walkable downtown core located on the Thames River, a vibrant culinary scene and scores of activities that highlight local arts, culture and music.  As one of Canada's largest acute-care teaching hospitals, LHSC delivers world-class care and experiences, built on our commitment to excellence in research, innovation, and learning. In partnership with our communities, we design and advance healthcare to support the wellness of the populations we serve. LHSC delivers both local and regional services, including the Children's Hospital, within a large geographic area. LHSC is known for its great people and great care, with a workforce of close to 15,000, dedicated to delivering the highest quality patient care while partnering with communities to transform health, one life at a time. 

The Biomedical Engineering program at LHSC provides leadership in the management of medical device and equipment technology. Biomedical Engineering ensures safe and effective acquisition, operation, application and maintenance of medical equipment through the application of engineering and business principles. The program works in partnership with clinical operations to ensure that care teams have the medical devices and equipment required to support the provision of care and that scheduled maintenance and demand repairs are conducted in a timely manner.

Posting Period

January 27 - February 19

Job Summary

What the Role is

Reporting to the Vice President, Clinical Diagnostics, Pharmacy, and Biomedical Engineering, the Director, Biomedical Engineering will translate the strategic priorities and decisions of the Executive Leadership Collaborative into practice by utilizing systems thinking, strategic planning, and relationship management skills and by developing purposeful coalitions with internal and external stakeholders.

The Director leads the daily operational medical device and equipment maintenance programs and teams and is closely connected to the organization's capital planning team. This individual is responsible for ensure appropriate planning and procurement of medical device and equipment fleets appreciating the organization's mandate as an academic, research-intensive quaternary and tertiary Centre delivering highly specialized care. Lifecycle asset management and maintenance including opportunities for corporate maintenance efficiencies will be a priority for this leader.

This position requires someone with a proven track record for leading and driving systems transformation through encouraging and supporting innovation and championing and orchestrating change, developing and sustaining healthy work environments and effective teams while leading in a performance-driven culture. The role is responsible to organize program activities, direct resources, execute operational initiatives, formulate policies & procedures, and strategically plan for the future.

You will demonstrate strong business acumen including management of multi-million dollar operating and capital budgets. This leader will have exceptional analytical and critical thinking skills that contribute to identifying problems and issues, evaluating the interdependence of decisions, questioning and challenging the status quo, and designing and implementing processes for improvement.

You foster a healthy, safe and engaging work environment where others have meaningful opportunities to contribute, collaborate, and cooperate to achieve results. You inspire and motivate your leaders and teams by aligning with our mission, vision and values and modelling performance and service excellence. Spotting and developing talent is a strength, as is your ability to coach, mentor, support and challenge others to achieve professional and personal goals.

NOTE: this role may required to be on-call, on a rotational basis

Qualifications

Who You Are

• You are self-aware of own assumptions, values, principles, strengths and limitations
• You manage and develop self while modeling qualities such as honesty, integrity, resilience, and confidence
• You engage and support others to foster development, personal goals and encourage a healthy organization
• You achieve results by strategically aligning direction, decisions, actions and evaluation with the vision, values and evidence
• You facilitate an environment of collaboration and cooperation
• You create connections, build partnerships and networks
• You demonstrate a commitment to the organizational vision, mission, values and service excellence
• You are a transformational thinker that encourages and supports innovation
• You have exceptional analytical skills that contribute to effective decision-making
• You are self-directed, courageous, and highly motivated with excellent interpersonal and effective communication skills

What You Will Bring with You

• Successful completion of a P.Eng designation with Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) or a recognized Master's Degree in Engineering (M.Eng) or in a relevant discipline preferred

   

• Experience leading large enterprise-wide device lifecycle management programs from procurement, contract negotiation and management, deployment, scheduled maintenance, and demand repair

   

• Experience with asset management database software solutions

   

• Experience in managing large capital device and/or equipment replacement projects from procurement to deployment and sustainability 

   

• Minimum of 8 to 10 years' leadership experience, preferably in progressively more responsible leadership position(s)

   

• Minimum five (5) years' previously related demonstrated experience and understanding in a healthcare-related discipline, preferably in an engineering and/or medical equipment and device support capacity

   

• Previous leadership in biomedical engineering preferred

   

• Member of the Canadian College of Health Leaders (CCHL) who have, or are in process of attaining the Canadian Health Executive (CHE) Select certification program preferred

   

• Fluent and computer literate with computer systems such as email and Microsoft Office applications (MS Word, Excel & PowerPoint)

   

• Demonstrated ability to attend work on a regular basis

   

Other Information

London Health Sciences Centre fosters a culture of patient and staff safety whereby all employees are guided by LHSC's Mission, Vision, Values and Code of Conduct.

LHSC is committed to employment equity and diversity in the workplace, and welcomes applications from women, visible minorities, Indigenous people, persons with disabilities, and members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. We are committed to providing persons with disabilities equal opportunities and standards of goods and services, and are also fully compliant with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (2005), as applicable.

Submission Requirements (please submit in one MS Word, or PDF(preferred), document): Cover Letter, Resume and Listing of Education, Credentials and Certifications

Please be advised that reference checks may be conducted as part of the selection process.

Successful candidates will be required to complete a health review which includes providing vaccination records or proof of immunity against Measles, Mumps, Rubella, and Varicella (Chicken Pox), Hepatitis B, Tetanus/Diphtheria/Polio; Meningitis. In addition, candidates will need to provide documentation of Tuberculosis Skin testing and a completed COVID vaccine series (two vaccines).

Successful candidates, as a condition of job offer, would be required to provide a satisfactory police information check (original document) completed in the last 3 months.

Your interest in this opportunity is appreciated. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.