JOB DESCRIPTION:Manager, Product Quality Engineering The Opportunity This position will be based out of our Alameda, CA location in the Diabetes Care division where we are focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We're revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.
As the Manager, Product Quality Engineering, you will be responsible for the group initiating and owning investigations associated with trends and emerging issues associated with product complaints, captured in the CAPA system. The group also establishes processes and programs to ensure new products are capable for post-market surveillance as defined in the ADC Quality System at the time of launch. This role requires a strong technical understanding of the product, investigation methods, and the post market surveillance space to ensure timely and effective investigations and corresponding corrective actions where applicable. This role will be expected to oversee and develop a team of individuals with those same skillsets.
What You'll Work On • Develop Product Quality Engineering teams to isolate root causes and recommend or implement effective solutions by means of sophisticated analysis, investigative techniques and troubleshooting methods.
• Establish effective team oversight of new product development to ensure post-market surveillance capabilities at time of launch.
• Responsible for establishing ADC investigation and reporting methodology as pertaining to elevated complaints and field issues identified.
• Work with the complaints group and CAPA team to analyze product issues and then conduct investigations to root cause and identify CAs to resolve.
• Collaborate with Operations, R&D, Quality Assurance, and Customer Service to determine cross-functional evaluation, investigation, and solutions.
• Represent Complaint Handling and Product Quality Engineering in escalations and urgent issues being addressed at a cross-functional or divisional level.
• Reviews and provides functional approval for project and quality system documentation.
• Develops and implements
Required Qualifications - Bachelors Degree
- 6 years of experience both overall and any industry-specific experience needed
Preferred Qualifications - Quality Assurance and healthcare industry disciplines preferred or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
- Minimum 4 years Overall quality experience in a FDA/ISO regulated environment.
- Substantial demonstrated initiative and problem-solving skills; critical-thinking skills, preferably in a CAPA environment.
- Experience in leading & managing people.
- Experience working in an investigative role in a Quality management system, in collaborations with Quality Assurance/ with Operations and R&D.
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Divisional InformationMedical Devices
General Medical Devices:
Our medical devices help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and liberate more than 500,000 people with diabetes from routine fingersticks.
Diabetes
We're focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We're revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.
The base pay for this position is $114,000.00 - $228,000.00
In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
JOB FAMILY:Operations Quality
DIVISION:ADC Diabetes Care
LOCATION:United States > Alameda : 1360-1380 South Loop Road
ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:WORK SHIFT:Standard
TRAVEL:No
MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:No
SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Continuous standing for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)
