Build a career powered by innovations that matter! At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturing—improving productivity, enhancing people’s lives and redefining what’s possible. We create for our global customers engineered components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission-critical applications—from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing.
Novanta is one global team with over 26 offices located in The Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Looking for a great place to work? You have found it with a culture that embraces teamwork, collaboration and empowerment. Come explore Novanta.
- Leading from the front in a hands-on operational environment
- Driving continuous improvement and lean initiatives
- Building strong, accountable, and high-performing teams
- Working on precision products with real-world impact
- Lead, coach, and develop production teams
- Create a high-performance culture focused on accountability and engagement
- Ensure effective staffing, training, and capability building
- Manage daily manufacturing operations in a high-mix, engineered products environment
- Deliver against key metrics across safety, quality, delivery, inventory, productivity, and cost
- Ensure production plans align with capacity, materials, and customer demand
- Drive improvement initiatives using the Novanta Growth System and lean principles
- Improve workflow, reduce waste, and enhance productivity and quality
- Use data and metrics to identify gaps and implement sustainable solutions
- Partner with engineering, supply chain, planning, and quality teams
- Remove operational barriers and improve end-to-end flow
- Support problem-solving across the value chain
- Support material availability and inventory optimisation
- Identify and mitigate operational and supply risks impacting delivery
- Proven experience in operations or manufacturing leadership (typically 7+ years)
- Experience leading teams in high-mix or engineered product environments
- Strong understanding of operational KPIs across quality, delivery, and cost
- Demonstrated success with lean, continuous improvement, or business system frameworks
- A collaborative mindset with the ability to influence across functions
- Excellent leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills
- Work on technologies that make a real impact on people’s lives
- Be part of a global, innovative organisation at the forefront of advanced manufacturing
- Lead meaningful change in an environment that values continuous improvement and ideas
- Collaborate with talented teams across engineering, operations, and commercial functions
- Opportunity for career growth across international markets
Novanta is proud to be an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action workplace. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, military and veteran status, disability, genetics, or any other category protected by federal law or Novanta policy.
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Skills Required
- Proven operations or manufacturing leadership experience (typically 7+ years)
- Experience leading teams in high-mix or engineered product environments
- Strong understanding of operational KPIs across quality, delivery, and cost
- Demonstrated success with lean, continuous improvement, or business system frameworks (Novanta Growth System)
- Hands-on operational leadership with ability to drive workflow improvements and reduce waste
- Ability to collaborate and influence cross-functional teams (engineering, quality, supply chain, planning)
- Experience in precision engineering, electronics, or electromechanical manufacturing
- Excellent leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills
- Manage production planning to align capacity, materials, and customer demand
Novanta Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Novanta and has not been reviewed or approved by Novanta.
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Healthcare Strength — Coverage is described as comprehensive, including medical, dental, vision, mental-health support, HSA/FSA options, telemedicine, and access to on-site clinics in select locations. Plan details indicate broad healthcare support across core needs.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Programs include flexible or unlimited time off for many professional roles and a separate PTO structure for non-exempt roles. Paid parental, family, and medical leave are highlighted as substantial in the U.S.
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Retirement Support — A strong 401(k) match with immediate vesting is emphasized. This structure provides meaningful employer support for long-term savings.
Novanta Insights
What We Do
Novanta delivers innovations that matter for its medical and advanced industrial OEM customers. If you have a passion for solving complex technical problems that lead to breakthrough performance and that enhance people's lives, come join our growing team. Here is a sample of the many exciting applications we serve: • Innovations that ensure the safety of patients and efficient workflows in hospitals using our novel RFID technology • Innovations in additive manufacturing, also known as 3-D metal printing, using our lightning fast lasers and laser beam steering sub-systems • Innovations in minimally invasive surgery using our highly reliable insufflators, pumps and visualization systems • Innovations in robotics and automation using our precision motors, encoders and drives for superior accuracy • Innovations in smartphone production using our fast, accurate lasers and laser beam steering equipment along with our precision motion systems The driving force behind our growth is the team of talented professionals who share our commitment to our values, and our passion for innovation and for our customers’ success. Novanta has deep expertise in precision medicine and manufacturing, medical solutions, and robotics and automation: Precision Medicine and Manufacturing: • Continuous wave, ultrafast and CO2 lasers, along with laser beam steering components and sub-systems Brands: ARGES, Cambridge Technology, Laser Quantum, Synrad Medical Solutions: Minimally Invasive Surgery: • Insufflators, pumps and disposable tube sets; medical visualization systems, video processing and wireless imaging Brands: NDS, Med X Change, Reach Technology, WOM Detection & Analysis: • RFID readers, machine vision solutions, barcode scanning, light and color measurement Brands: JADAK Robotics and Automation: • Motors, encoders, servo drives, air bearing systems and integrated mechatronic solutions Brands: ATI, Celera Motion (inc. Applimotion, Ingenia, MicroE, Zettlex, Westwind)
