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Purpose and Passion • Comprehensive Benefits • Life-Work Integration • Community • Career Growth

At Boston Scientific, you will find a collaborative culture driven by a passion for innovation that keeps us connected on the most essential level. With determination, imagination and a deep caring for human life, we’re solving some of the most important healthcare industry challenges. Together, we’re one global team committed to making a difference in people’s lives around the world. This is a place where you can find a career with meaningful purpose—improving lives through your life’s work.

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.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure Regulatory compliance in area of responsibility to cGMP’s of all medical device regulatory agencies (e.g. FDA and TUV).
• 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.
• Provide functional expertise to other support functions on quality related issues.
• Identification and implementation of appropriate statistical techniques to monitor process performance (e.g. SPC, CpK analysis, sampling techniques).
• Review, assessment and approval of change notices for product, process and quality system changes.
• Customer complaints: analysis of complaint trends.
• Validation: Define process, product and test method validation requirements, preparation and approval of Master Validation Plans, protocols and reports approval.
• 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 and support introduction of new products.

Educational Requirements:

• Minimum of Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering/Technology
• 2/3 years experience in a manufacturing environment or equivalent with direct experience in a QA environment (preferably GMP regulated).
• Experience in the medical device industry is an advantage.

About us

As a global medical technology leader for more than 35 years, our mission at Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX) is to transform lives through innovative medical solutions that improve the health of patients. If you’re looking to truly make a difference to people both around the world and around the corner, there’s no better place to make it happen.

Requisition ID: 437515