Senior Quality Engineer

Working Location: TENNESSEE, BARTLETT 

Workplace Flexibility: Onsite

 

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Job Description

Provide Quality Engineering support to ensure compliance with the Quality System regulatory requirements and the business strategy of the company. Represent’ s Quality as a team member to support new product development, procurement, manufacturing returns, and servicing of products produced. Can serve a backup as the Management Representative for the location.

Job Duties

• Cross-Functional Team member to support new product development procurement manufacturing and servicing processes representing Quality Engineering discipline. 
  • Completes assigned Quality Engineering tasks to schedule.
• Promotes awareness of Quality and Regulatory requirements.
• Leads or participates in the development of process and procedure development/changes.
• Applies statistical process control (SPC) methods to evaluate current processes and process changes.
• Develops new approaches to solve problems identified as part of the team. Assist in the implementation compliance and maintenance of standards (e.g. FDA ISO13485) and OGA Quality policies and procedures. Train’s location personnel on all aspects of the Quality System and regulatory standards. Serves as a mentor for the Quality team to assist in developing Quality Engineering skills. Applies the requirements of the Quality System to processes products or services for the location.
• Supports the manufacturing line to address quality issues and resolution.
• Provides support to metrology and preventive maintenance programs. 
  • Supports validation and verification strategy for new and existing products and     processes as assigned. 
  • Leads the development and maintenance of Master Validation Plans.
• Participates in the CAPA process as required as an assignee or project team member.
• Investigates escalated product complaints to root cause to ensure timely customer response and correction.
• Monitors product and process performance metrics and acts upon trends (positive or negative).
• Leads MRB as a team member to ensure proper disposition of non- conformances.
• Authors collaborates and approves Quality System documentation including change orders DHF DMR DHR labels and labelling etc.
• Conducts internal vendor and process audits to schedule. 
  • Interfaces with suppliers to resolve Quality issues.
• Develops and drives measurable Quality improvements relating to products processes and services. 
• All other essential related duties as required.

Job Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering discipline or equivalent.
• Minimum of 5+ year's related experience and/or training; preferably in the medical device industry related to process/quality engineering.
• Leadership experience (i.e. People and Administrative Skills); ability to lead and manage cross-functional teams.
• Knowledge of basic mechanical testing and material properties.
• Knowledge of met