Quality Manager

About the role

Are you a quality-focused leader with expertise in regulatory compliance and continuous improvement? Join our team as a Quality Manager and lead the development, implementation, and oversight of our Quality Management System. In this high-impact role, you will ensure compliance with FDA, ISO 9001, ISO 13485, CE, and other applicable standards, while partnering with Manufacturing, Engineering, Supply Chain, and Regulatory teams to drive quality excellence across the organization. This is an opportunity to lead a talented team, influence strategic quality initiatives, and make a meaningful contribution to the success of our products and customers.

Responsibilities

• Management Representative of the Quality Management System; develop, improve, and implement key quality system processes to ensure compliance with ISO 9001, ISO 13485, CE, TGA, and FDA 21 CFR 820.
• Person Responsible for Regulatory Compliance (PRRC) for medical devices, ensuring device conformity to the quality management system and harmonized standards.
• Ensures development, communication, implementation & maintenance of best-in-class quality management tools & principles.
• Promotes continuous improvement.
• Defines, communicates, and gains cross-functional support for the site's Quality System and compliance strategy to mitigate product and compliance risk.
• Designs and implements effective quality processes including procedures, doc systems, CAPA, complaints, tools, reporting metrics and measurable improvements that are required to meet quality system standards and customer requirements.
• Interface with customers, suppliers, and agencies as necessary.
• Supervision of Quality Engineers and/or Technicians.
• Manage the quality of a network of 3rd party manufacturing and distribution locations.
• Manages Quality performance of our suppliers.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in technical or scientific field, Engineering degree.
• Advanced degree (Mechanical, Electrical, or Reliability) preferred.
• Experience with FDA or ISO quality standards, including several completed ISO audits and FDA inspections.
• 5 plus years' experience in Quality System and Compliance environment with at least 5 years in a managerial role.
• Education/experience in one of the following:
  • a diploma, certificate or other evidence of formal qualification, awarded on completion of a university degree or of a course of study recognized as equivalent in law, medicine, pharmacy, engineering or another relevant scientific discipline, and at least one year of professional experience in regulatory affairs or in quality management systems relating to medical devices.
  • four years of professional experience in regulatory affairs or in quality management systems relating to medical devices.
• Experience in medical device manufacturing, preferably a class II device.

Skills

• Thorough knowledge of Quality tools (such as, but not limited to DOE, design of sampling plans, SPC, failure analysis, FMEA, DFMEA, etc.)
• Strong interpersonal skills, both written and verbal.
• Must possess analytical thinking and reasoning skills.
• Must be thorough and exercise attention to detail.
• Must be able to set and maintain schedules.
• Must have good supervisory and mentoring skills.