Calibration Engineer Co-op

Join us in pioneering breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.

Our inspiring and caring environment forms a global community that celebrates diversity and individuality. We encourage you to step beyond your comfort zone, offering resources and flexibility to foster your professional and personal growth, all while valuing your unique contributions.

Acquires further qualification for a Bachelor's degree, and gathers respective working experience in different technical fields of expertise, in the course of a respective assignment.

CO-OP, Calibration and Software Engineer

Siemens Healthineers is building tomorrow’s talent. Shape the future with us.

We are looking for dedicated and talented people who tackle ever-changing challenges, customer needs, and questions from colleagues with clever concepts and creativity. We embrace change and work with curious minds re-inventing the future of work. Join us and let us focus together on what’s truly important: making lives better with new ideas and the latest technologies around the world.

Why you’ll love working for Siemens Healthineers:

• Be part of exciting and innovative projects that help solve some of the world’s most significant health problems.
• Engaging, challenging, and fast evolving, cutting edge technological environment.
• Opportunities to advance your career.
• Freedom and a healthy work-life balance – Embrace our flexible work environment with flex hours, telecommuting and digital workspaces.
• Employee perks and discounts.
• Contribute to our social responsibility initiatives focused on access to education and technology, and sustainability, making a positive impact on communities.
• Participate in our celebrations and social events.
• Opportunities to contribute your innovative ideas and get paid for them!
• Diversity and inclusivity focused.
• Siemens Healthineers is proud to be a Great Place to Work® certified company in Canada for 2024-2026, 2025 Best Workplaces™ in Ontario, 2021-2025 Best Workplaces™ in Healthcare, 2025/2026 Best Workplaces™ for Women, 2025 Best Workplaces™ for Inclusion, and 2025/2026 Best Workplaces™ with Most Trusted Executive Team

As a leading medical technology company, Siemens Healthineers enables healthcare providers to increase value by empowering them on their journey towards expanding precision medicine, transforming care delivery, improving the patient experience, and digitalizing healthcare. Siemens Healthineers is continuously developing its product and service portfolio, with AI-supported applications, digital services and clinical Point of Care diagnostic products, that play an increasingly important role in the next generation of medical technology. These new applications will enhance the company’s foundation in in-vitro diagnostic, image-guided therapy, and in-vivo diagnostics. Siemens Healthineers also provides a range of services and solutions to enhance healthcare providers’ ability to provide high-quality, efficient care to patients.

Point-of-Care in Ottawa

The Center of Excellence for Point-of-Care Blood Gas is renowned for its expertise in developing and manufacturing point-of-care products and services that enable healthcare providers to render better patient management and ensure optimized clinical outcomes. Siemens Healthineers continuously strives to be the most trusted source for POC Diagnostics. We deploy unique innovative technologies that not only transform diagnostic products but also expand into new platforms and solutions with proven health and economic outcomes.

Our impact:

• 70% of critical clinical decisions are influenced by the type of technology we provide.
• More than 31 million Canadians benefit from Siemens Healthineers products every year.
• An average of 85,000 Canadians per day receive treatment or tests from a Siemens Healthineers device.
• Siemens Healthineers participates in 30 healthcare research collaborations in Canada and around the world.

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Position Overview

The Equipment Engineering Group is responsible for equipment development, procurement, deployment, and support.  This includes things such as software, calibration, documentation, design, and testing while ensuring compliance in a regulated environment.  The primary mandate is to ensure manufacturing continuity. The CO-OP, Calibration Engineer will report to the Manufacturing Engineer.

What will you do?

• Assist engineering staff in the support of technical projects.
• You may be involved in the following activities:
  • Co-ordinate the calibration relevant activities.
  • Calibrate equipment internally as required.
  • Data analysis
  • Experimental testing of devices
  • Documentation of project work
  • Perform maintenance, troubleshooting and repair of IMTE (Inspection, Measuring and Test Equipment), as required.
  • Collect and analyze data related to calibration to find areas of improvement or to troubleshoot problems. 
  • Assist Engineers in assessing impact of out of calibration OOT (Out of Tolerance) events. 
  • Assist Engineers in creating new equipment/tools or jigs. 
  • Assist in procurement and management of spare parts.
  • Coordinate with Production planning for optimal scheduling of equipment requiring calibration.
  • Maintenance Processing and equipment management using SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Plant Maintenance Module software

Note: Duties are not limited to those listed above. Additional duties may be assigned as required. However, reasonable accommodations will be made if all possible under business conditions.

What will you bring?

• Ability to think quickly and act decisively to solve problems when needed
• Ability to impart a sense of urgency and dedication to team supporting equipment in 24/7 environment

• Safely use hand tools and power tools
• Ability to troubleshoot problems methodically
• Maintain a clean work environment
• Ability to read technical manuals and schematics when required
• Excellent organizational skills with strong attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to self-manage and self-motivate; forward thinking
• Ability to prioritize tasks, and meet deadlines
• Ability to communicate effectively with both the customer and internal contacts
• Proven ability to work effectively in a team environment, as well as individually, while

satisfying personal responsibilities

• Excellent customer service skills; displays a professional can do attitude
• High regard for safety, quality and adherence to protocols, policies and procedures
• Insistence on clearly defined goals for work
• Flexibility of hours required, as overtime and the possibility of working on weekends may

be required

• Physical:

• • manual dexterity
  • ability to distinguish between colours
  • combination of sitting, standing kneeling, walking
  • able to lift up to 30 lbs

What will you need to succeed?

• Student in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering, Bio-Medical Engineering program or equivalent (undergraduate)
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel and Word)
• Knowledge of process instrumentation and controls would be an asset

Who we are: We are a team of more than 72,000 highly dedicated Healthineers in more than 70 countries. As a leader in medical technology, we constantly push the boundaries to create better outcomes and experiences for patients, no matter where they live or what health issues they are facing. Our portfolio is crucial for clinical decision-making and treatment pathways.

How we work: When you join Siemens Healthineers, you become one in a global team of scientists, clinicians, developers, researchers, professionals, and skilled specialists, who believe in each individual’s potential to contribute with diverse ideas. We are from different backgrounds, cultures, religions, political and/or sexual orientations, and work together, to fight the world’s most threatening diseases and enable access to care, united by one purpose: to pioneer breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.

To find out more about Siemens Healthineers' businesses, please visit our company page at Siemens Healthineers Canada.

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