Supply Chain Coordinator - Operating Rooms

 Req ID: 204636
Location: Central Zone, Halifax Infirmary Robie Street Entrance - QEII 
Department: OPCZ PERI Supply Chain HI
Type of Employment: Temporary Hourly FT long-assignment (100%) x 1 
Management/Non Union Position
Posting Closing Date: 16-Jun-25

Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We’re on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing, and learning through working together, which is reflected in the hospitals, health centres, and community-based programs we operate across the province. Our passionate team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions. Join a diverse team of innovators, collaborators, and creative thinkers today.

Nova Scotia Health employs professionals in all corners of our beautiful province. We believe there's a place here for everyone to call home, from vibrant cities with exuberant nightlife to quaint towns with picturesque trails. The work-life balance that comes with a Nova Scotia Health role means you'll have the time to explore, discover, and participate in that coveted Atlantic lifestyle. Visit us today and check out www.novascotia.com to see why more people from across the globe are moving here.

About the Opportunity

The Product Coordinator is responsible for ensuring Operating Room's (OR) have the right supplies when needed. Provides leadership to OR supply inventory management, identifies opportunities that may exist for standardization and reviewing budgets and costs to identify opportunities that will help address our deficit in collaboration with key stakeholders i.e. nurses, physicians, managers, Materials Management Department.
 

Under the direction of the OR Manager, the Product Coordinator is responsible for the management of supplies and equipment for the Operating Rooms at the Halifax Infirmary. In addition to the co-ordination and evaluation of all new supplies, the coordinator is responsible for contributing to business case justifications, identifying standardization opportunities (while balancing clinical requirements) and ensuring appropriate person centred health care is met. The Product Coordinator is responsible for the direct supervision and management of Supply Technicians in the ORs.

About You

We would love to hear from you if you have the following:

• Undergraduate degree in Nursing or a health professional with equivalent clinical & professional knowledge
• Minimum 5 years operating room experience required
• Registration with the College of Registered Nurses of Nova Scotia, or eligible for registration
• Leadership/management experience an asset
• Ability to influence others in adapting to change
• Work cooperatively and collaboratively in a team environment
• Demonstrates high degrees of independent decision making, self-direction, motivation, change management knowledge and team building/leadership skills including proven communication and time management.
• Strong analytic skills ie financial analysis related to purchase of new product
• Must understand basic budgeting and fiscal management principles and processes
• Sound knowledge base of vendor/buyer guidelines and protocols.
• Ability to supervise staff in an unionized environment
• Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred

Please ensure your resume is up to date and includes all relevant education, experience, training, and certifications.

Hours

• Long assignment full-time position; 75 hours biweekly
• Approximately for (12) months. Dates are subject to change

Compensation and Benefits

$38.36 - $50.97 Hourly

Successful candidates may be eligible for our benefits package which includes health, dental, travel, long-term disability, and life insurance coverage as well as a defined benefit pension plan.

Once You've Applied

Thank you for your interest in this position. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. 

Nova Scotia Health is committed to being a workforce that is free of discrimination, values diversity, and is representative, at all job levels, of the people we serve. We encourage all qualified applicants who self-identify as Indigenous, Black/African Nova Scotian, Persons of Colour, Foreign Nationals/Newcomers, Persons with Disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ to apply and self-identify.