Quality Engineer 2, Design Assurance PMS

Expected Travel: Up to 10%

Requisition ID: 12990

About Teleflex Incorporated

As a global provider of medical technologies, Teleflex is driven by our purpose to improve the health and quality of people’s lives. Through our vision to become the most trusted partner in healthcare, we offer a diverse portfolio with solutions in the therapy areas of anesthesia, emergency medicine, interventional cardiology and radiology, surgical, vascular access, and urology. We believe that the potential of great people, purpose-driven innovation, and world-class products can shape the future direction of healthcare. 
 
Teleflex is the home of Arrow™, Barrigel™, Deknatel™, LMA™, Pilling™, QuikClot™, Rüsch™, UroLift™ and Weck™ – trusted brands united by a common sense of purpose.
 
At Teleflex, we are empowering the future of healthcare.  For more information, please visit teleflex.com.

Global Operations - Global Operations is a complex and diverse organization within the company which is responsible for product fulfilment to all our customers from end to end. We pride ourselves on being totally Customer Centric in our unrelenting focus on Improving Quality, Service and Value as perceived by our customers. Our employees are dedicated to the Global Operations Enterprise Excellence journey. Join a dynamic, growing team that offers healthcare providers an array of medical technology solutions that make a difference in patients’ lives.

Position Summary

As a member of a cross-functional team, the Quality Engineer II, Design Assurance is responsible for quality throughout new product development (up to and including design transfer and commercialization) and sustaining projects. The Quality Engineer II, Design Assurance ensures that applicable elements of the Quality System and external standards are followed. As the voice of Quality, the Quality Engineer II, Design Assurance applies best-practice quality, team-based and statistical tools and techniques, and promotes the value and use of such tools throughout the organization.

Principal Responsibilities

•    Author and maintain post-market periodic safety update reports for Teleflex devices. 
•    Interface with key functional areas within Teleflex to obtain necessary information and documents required for the development and maintenance of post market documentation. 
•    Apply technical solutions to improve problem solving, data collection, and analysis to add efficiency and effectiveness to the post market process and the use of post market data in the ongoing risk management activities for supported products
•    Partner with R&D, Marketing, Regulatory Affairs, and Operations to support activities in product and process design such as design verification, design validation, design reviews, design transfer, and all other aspects of a design history file.
•    Create and maintain risk files consisting of but not limited to risk management plans, hazard and risk analyses, failure mode and effects analyses and risk management reports to assess the risks associated with a product.
•    Use appropriate quality tools and statistical techniques to collect and summarize data, draw conclusions with confidence, determine sample sizes, apply data distributions, identify relationships between variables, calculate reliability, design and analyze experiments, determine process and performance capability, and make statistically supported decisions.
•    Apply the most relevant and useful quality philosophies throughout Design Control and its related processes for both new product development and sustaining. Understand and manage work to minimize cost of quality throughout the product’s lifecycle.
•    Ensure compliance of all practices to the Quality Management System. Ensure comprehensive documentation is available, adequate records are produced, and change management is implemented.
•    Interpret customer feedback to define user needs and product requirements as part of a cross-functional team.
•    Partner with Product Quality Assurance and Operations to make risk-based decisions associated with nonconformances and technical complaints.
•    Understand applicable external regulations and internal standards that drive compliance and apply them in their daily function. Perform audits of Design History Files and support both internal and external audits.
•    Partner with Human Factors SMEs and R&D to assess the usability of a device throughout design and development.
•    Develop and validate test methods. Identify and apply metrology techniques such as calibration systems, traceability, measurement error, and control of standards and devices. Conduct measurement system error studies such as Gage R&R.
•    Perform root cause analysis of ide