Senior Quality Engineer (Onsite)

Working Location: MINNESOTA, BROOKLYN PARK 

Workplace Flexibility: Onsite

 

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Job Description

The Product Quality Engineer is responsible for the design, development and management of projects for legacy products. The Product Quality Engineer provides organizational support with a focus on Design Quality activities. 

Works with internal/external manufacturers providing finished products, services, components, and sub­assemblies to ensure compliance with company policies and procedures and medical device regulations. The Product Quality Engineer will partner with Operations, R&D, Supply Chain and other departments to continuously improve products and processes that meet all internal and external requirements and regulations.

Job Duties

• Drive the design & execution of Production Release Process project for components & finished devices
• Lead and implement complex projects including quality improvement initiatives.
• Sets direction for cross-functional teams and drives towards compliant and efficient solutions to complex problems. 
• Lead Process/Design Risk Analysis.
• Provide leadership in understanding of the quality regulations to other disciplines.
• Lead multiple product Design Control activities for new product development efforts.
• Support Process/Design Validation Nerification activities and approach including software validation.
• Lead implementing limited cost of quality concepts, including cost of quality, data collection, & reporting.
• Support Manufacturing Engineering in the creation of DMR, DHR, routes, and bills of material, print changes, and specifications for in-house / external manufacturing. 
• Know and follow all laws and policies that apply to one's job, and maintain the highest levels of professionalism, ethics and compliance at all times. 

Job Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering required. 
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Quality Engineering within an FDA regulated medical device manufacturing environment. 
• Strong working knowledge of technical problem solving via Six Sigma type tools to analyse, drive root cause, and solve problems. 
• Proven track record in Sustaining Engineering, support of commercialized products and Post Market Surveillance. 
• Strong working knowledge of statistics, sampling strategies, and design of experiments, including statistical software tools such as Minitab. 
• Strong working knowledge of Risk Management practices, Corrective and Preventative Actions, and regulatory requirements such as FDA QSR's, ISO 13485, ISO 14971, ISO 11135, EUMDR and Human Factors. 
• Up to 10% domestic travel 

 

Preferred:

• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic and deadline-driven environment.
• Well organized, flexible self-starter, team motivated and excellent at prioritizing and multi-tasking. 
• Skilled in presentation development and public speaking.

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