Senior Mfg/Ops Quality Engineer

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Position Summary:

This role is responsible to ensure that design transfer and manufacturing operations activities are executed in compliance with Illumina's established Quality Management System (QMS) and relevant international/national regulations. These activities include, but are not limited to, validation, non-conformance, customer complaints, risk assessment and support maintenance of the QMS.

Position Responsibilities:

• Serve as Quality representative on project teams for new product transfers

• Review and approve manufacturing operational activities, such as Device History Records (DHR), nonconformance, CAPA, RMA, and customer complaints

• Work with cross-functional teams to resolve operational quality issues

• Trend, analyze and monitor key performance indicators, suggest improvements and escalate to supervisor/management as necessary

• Ensure the quality systems meet customer, corporate, or internal requirements and any other related requirement within the Quality Management System

• Participate in management of corrective action program (customer complaints) to ensure timely follow-up, completion and documentation of corrective actions

• Manage customer complaints and work closely with cross function in issue investigation and ensure timely response of to corporate/ customer

• Work in accordance with procedures and integrated program plans for achieving and maintaining the required level of product quality in preparation for FDA and ISO third party audits

• Other such duties that may be determined by Supervisor

Position Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Biological/Life Sciences or equivalent field

• Minimum 5 years of experience in a medical device manufacturing environment.

• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to apply experience to meet 21 CFR 820 and ISO 13485 requirements

• Strong analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills Certified Quality Engineer, or equivalent, is a plus

• Experience in failure investigation, technical report writing, data mining, trend analysis and statistical analysis

• Intermediate to advanced experience with words processing and spreadsheets, charting, graphing tools and presentation tools

• Proficient in computer systems such as Microsoft Office & SAP

• Experience with statistical analysis packages, e.g. JMP, Minitab is highly preferred

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