Associate Quality Manager

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.                

Purpose:

Act as a member of the Boston Scientific Cork facility quality team.  To provide expert QA support to Operations, in ensuring operational goals and objectives are achieved for the plant.

Responsibilities:

• Supervision of Quality Technicians and Quality Engineers.
• Drive and implement process improvements to ensure predictable processes across all product lines (e.g. Risk Reduction, Yield improvements, Customer complaint reduction, Error proofing, Cost Reduction initiatives, Process Automation activities).
• Provide effective and responsive QA support to Operations to meet their area’s objectives of quality, cost and output.
• Ensure all process variables and their interactions are adequately defined. Ensure all failure modes in process have been identified and addressed. (e.g. Use of DOE studies, FMEA’s).
• Drive and implement plant wide quality system improvements.
• Ensure Regulatory compliance in area of responsibility to cGMP’s of all medical device regulatory agencies (e.g. FDA and TUV).
• Provide functional expertise to other support functions on quality related issues (e.g. regulatory requirements, statistical techniques, sampling principles).
• Identification and implementation of appropriate statistical techniques to monitor process performance (e.g. SPC, CpK analysis, sampling techniques).
• Approval of change requests for product, process and quality system changes.
• Customer complaints: Approval of analysis reports and analysis of complaint trends.
• Validation: Define process and product validation requirements, preparation and approval of Master Validation Plans, protocols and reports approval.
• Compilation of required Regulatory documentation (e.g.Technical files, Design Dossiers, Product transfer files, Essential requirements).
• MRB: Review of MRB trends and identification of appropriate corrective actions when required.
• Perform internal quality audits.
• Support the implementation of Lean Manufacturing across the site.
• Transfer and implement product and processes from development or from another manufacturing facility.
• Monitoring of key quality metrics in areas of responsibility to identify improvement opportunities.

Qualifications:

• Requires a minimum level 8 relevant Engineering / Science degree
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with good leadership abilities.
• Ability to work as part of a team and meet targets/goals efficiently.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Minimum of 4+ years’ experience within the medical device or pharmaceutical manufacturing industry - people management experience an advantage.
• Strong knowledge of quality principles and the ability to utilize these methods in a manufacturing environment.

Requisition ID: 592150

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 innovative and it is important in our work of advancing science for life and improving patient health. That is why we stand for inclusion, equality, and opportunity for all. By embracing the richness of our unique backgrounds and perspectives, we create a better, more rewarding place for our employees to work and reflect the patients, customers, and communities we serve. Boston Scientific is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

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