Senior Quality Manager - Manufacturing

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Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.

About the role: The Senior Quality Manager will lead a team of supervisors, engineers, and technicians to support manufacturing, new product development, post-market investigations, and Quality Systems for Pacemaker/Defibrillator subassembly and electronic subassembly components (including Feedthrus, IC/Mods, etc) and other medical device electronic assemblies.  Key tasks include directing and prioritizing Quality signals and improvement projects to ensure the manufacture and delivery of high-quality products and facilitate compliance with regulatory requirements while partnering with Production, Engineering, R&D, and Process Development.  Also, ensuring new products are implemented with key process controls, product checks, and preventative activities in place.

 

Key responsibilities include:

• Recruits, coaches and develops organizational talent.
• Fosters a diverse workplace that enables all participants to contribute to their full potential in pursuit of organizational objectives.
• Creates an entrepreneurial environment.
• Provides direction and guidance to exempt specialists and/or supervisory staff who exercise significant latitude and independence in their assignments.  May supervise non-exempt employees.
• Keeps the organization's vision and values at the forefront of decision making and action.
• Demonstrates effective change leadership.
• Builds strategic partnerships to further departmental and organizational objectives.
• Develops and executes organizational and operational policies that affect one or more groups by utilizing technical/professional knowledge and skills.
• Monitors compliance with company policies and procedures (e.g. compliance with FDA, BSI, EEO regulations, etc.).
• Makes decisions regarding work processes or operational plans and schedules in order to achieve department objectives.
• Develops, monitors and appropriately adjusts the annual budget for department(s).
• Provides appropriate level of cross-functional and customer-oriented communications regarding the status of department and quality system operation, as well as product performance.
• Drives quality projects of major magnitude and scope, and determine appropriate project staff assignments and schedules work to meet completion dates and deliverables.
• Provides significant guidance and approval regarding technical strategies and approaches.

 

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 7 years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of people leadership experience
• Trained and experienced in BSC Quality System or equivalent
   

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience working in CRM quality system
• Experience working in manufacturing environment
• Training and experience in Lean / DMAIC / Engineering Essentials methodologies

Requisition ID: 574453

Among other requirements, Boston Scientific maintains specific prohibited substance testing requirements for safety-sensitive positions.  This role is deemed safety-sensitive and, as such, candidates will be subject to a drug test as a pre-employment requirement.  The goal of the drug testing is to increase workplace safety in compliance with the applicable law.  

As a leader in medical science for more than 40 years, we are committed to solving the challenges that matter most – united by a deep caring for human life. Our mission to advance science for life is about transforming lives through innovative medical solutions that improve patient lives, create value for our customers, and support our employees and the communities in which we operate. Now more than ever, we have a responsibility to apply those values to everything we do – as a global business and as a global corporate citizen.

 

So, choosing a career with Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX) isn’t just business, it’s personal. And if you’re a natural problem-solver with the imagination, determination, and spirit to make a meaningful difference to people worldwide, we encourage you to apply and look forward to connecting with you!

 

At Boston Scientific, we recognize that nurturing a diverse and inclusive workplace helps us be more innovati