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Job Description

Reporting directly to the Associate Director of Quality, you'll be at the heart of our product development journey, applying your Quality Engineering expertise to both cutting-edge new products and essential product maintenance initiatives. This is your opportunity to make a real impact on patient safety and product excellence throughout the entire product lifecycle.

Responsibilities:

• Drive Quality Excellence: Apply advanced technical principles, quality sciences, and proven methodologies to ensure our medical devices exceed industry standards and regulatory expectations

• Solve Complex Challenges: Leverage your proven problem-solving skills to tackle quality issues head-on, creating measurable improvements to BD's processes and procedures that enhance efficiency and effectiveness

• Champion Regulatory Compliance: Ensure every design control and production/process control project meets all applicable local and international regulatory requirements, plus Corporate and Unit standards

• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Serve as the Quality representative on dynamic new product development and sustaining engineering teams, bringing your expertise to multidisciplinary projects

• Exercise Approval Authority: Review and provide Quality Engineering approval for new and modified design/process specifications, including product performance specs, test methods, and critical documentation

• Develop Auditing Skills: Participate in supplier and internal quality system audits as an Auditor-in-training, evaluating the effectiveness of our Quality System and good manufacturing practices

• Lead Project Quality: Ensure quality conduct across projects—from design through data interpretation and report generation—for both your work and that of junior team members

• Shape Our Future: Contribute to specific programs and projects that advance our quality capabilities, and prepare/revise policies and procedures that guide our organization

• Own the Journey: Manage projects and tasks from product inception through launch and ongoing maintenance, ensuring products consistently meet quality standards at every stage

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering and 5 years relevant experience OR
• Master's degree in Engineering and 3 years relevant experience.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Applied knowledge of the FDA medical device quality system regulations and international quality system standards/regulations (e.g. - 21 CFR Part 820, ISO 13485, ISO 14971, MDSAP, EU MDR/IVDR) as it relates to the design and continued support of BD products.

• Can ensure quality conduct of projects, including design, data summary and interpretation, and report generation for self and lower level project developers.

• Can independently determine and develop approach to solutions.

• Able to provide guidance and work direction to lower level project developers.

• Can design and perform development working independently within defined parameters with minimal supervision required.

• Experience with BD software systems utilized in the Quality Systems is desirable.

• Must have knowledge/specialization in one or more of the following areas:

  • Acceptance sampling theory and application

  • Statistical process control methods and application

  • Measurement system/test method knowledge and analysis

  • Quality planning

  • Failure analysis investigation

  • Design of Experiments

  • Process mapping and value stream analysis

  • Hypothesis testing

  • Descriptive statistics

  • Process capability analysis

  • Basic quality tools:  Pareto, box plots, histograms, scatter diagrams, etc.

  • Risk Management

  • Supplier quality management

  • Auditing

  • Design/development tools

  • Process validation

  • Software validation

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