Director, Biomedical Engineering

at  London Health Sciences Centre

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.

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