Engineering Project Manager (Hybrid)

Job description

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 diagnosis and treatment of the most common heart rhythm disorder, atrial fibrillation – which can cause stroke, heart failure, and other heart-related complications. Kardium’s mission is to deliver the best treatment for atrial fibrillation. To achieve this, we have developed The Globe® Pulsed Field System – we have a fantastic technical team that has developed a product with strong, unique, and customer-valued differentiators versus other solutions on the market. We have built connections with key opinion leaders who are already using the Globe System and are helping to tell our story. We have obtained FDA approval and officially begun the commercial launch of the Globe® Pulsed Field System. This is a pivotal and exciting time in our journey, as we bring this life-changing technology to patients! As an Engineering Project Manager at Kardium, you will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and driving the execution of engineering projects in a fast-paced, highly technical hardware development environment. You will work closely with directors, managers, team leads, and cross-functional contributors to develop project plans, maintain schedules, track deliverables, identify risks, and ensure project activities are completed on time. Your ability to create clear plans, follow up on actions, communicate status, and keep teams aligned will be key to successfully delivering projects. Please note, this opportunity is a hybrid work arrangement, located in Burnaby, BC. Meaningful work you will be a part of Your responsibilities will include: • Lead the planning and execution of cross-functional engineering projects. • Develop and maintain integrated project plans, schedules, resource forecasts, and dashboards that provide clear visibility into project health, risks, dependencies, and upcoming capacity needs. • Proactively identify technical, schedule, resource, and execution risks; develop mitigation plans; and drive timely decisions to keep projects on track. • Coordinate with directors, managers, technical leads, and cross-functional teams to align project activities, resolve blockers, and maintain progress against agreed schedules. • Prepare for project gate reviews and drive completion of gate review actions, ECOs, change control tasks, materialal requests, prototype builds, design verification activities, and process validation tasks. What you bring to the team Our Kardium team is smart, creative, and passionate about creating cutting-edge medical devices to help improve people’s lives. We work within a collaborative environment based on trust and respect. And we understand that only by working together can we solve the unsolvable. You will be successful in this role because you possess these attributes: • Strong project leadership skills with the ability to create structure, drive alignment, and maintain momentum in ambiguous or fast-moving technical environments. • Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills, including the ability to translate complex project and resource data into clear executive-level updates and actionable insights. • Proficiency with project management, scheduling, resource planning, and reporting tools such as Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Azure DevOps, Power BI, Excel, and Microsoft Office. • Demonstrated ability to develop dashboards, project health reporting, milestone tracking, and resource forecasts that support proactive decision-making. • Strong analytical, problem-solving, facilitation, and interpersonal skills, with the confidence to influence without direct authority. • Ability to understand key technical concepts, risks, dependencies, and trade-offs and translate them into practical project plans and mitigation strategies. • A continuous improvement mindset with experience creating or improving project management templates, processes, frameworks, and best practices. • Strong time management skills with a sense of urgency, agility, transparency, respect, and collaboration. Education & Experience: • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, life sciences, or a related technical discipline. • 8+ years of experience in high-tech, medical device, life sciences, or another highly regulated technical environment. • 5+ years of experience leading complex engineering projects or programs involving cross-functional technical teams. • Experience in the design and development of complex medical devices, in vitro diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, or electromechanical hardware products is preferred. • Formal project management training or certification, such as PMP, PMI-ACP, or equivalent practical experience, is an asset. What We Offer: • Project execution impact: play a key role in helping engineering teams plan effectively, stay organized, manage risks, and deliver project milestones on schedule. • Organizational reach: work across multiple functions and programs, amplifying your impact across Kardium’s engineering organization. • Leadership growth: develop a pathway toward increasing responsibility in program leadership, portfolio management, or broader operational strategy. • Competitive salary and benefits package, with opportunities for professional growth and development. • A collaborative and supportive work environment focused on meaningful innovation in healthcare. Compensation Kardium has listed the total cash compensation range (base salary + 5% Retirement Savings Plan contribution) 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. • $107,000 - $130,000 (CAD Annually) Your Benefits & Well-being The total cash we’ve listed for this position includes a base salary, plus an annual contribution to a Retirement Savings Plan account 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 – we offer a flexible work environment for daily working hours. In addition, we provide 3 personal days per year. Support for you (and your dependents) overall well-being. Family building – we provide top up for maternity leave, adoptive leave, and parental leave for non-birthing parents. Employees can also enroll in benefit coverage for fertility drug treatment. Career progression and learning support. Professional membership support. Life at Kardium What makes us a great place to work? 1. Our Purpose 2. Our People 3. 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 ERG, Chinese ERG, Barangay Kardium (Filipino) ERG, Irish ERG, Brazilian ERG, and Early Career at Kardium 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. And our employees think we are great too – check out Glassdoor to learn more!