Senior Manager, Quality Assurance
About The Position
The experienced Senior Manager, Quality Assurance (QA) provides leadership and support to the quality assurance team. Responsible for applicable standards, regulations and guidelines in compliance for development products. This involves engaging and collaborating with cross-functional internal and external teams to evaluate processes, procedures, and activities for adherence to relevant industry standards, regulatory guidelines, and company Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) as appropriate. Depending on the location, Quality, Health, Safety, and Environment (QHSE) and Regulatory Compliance (RC) responsibilities may be included.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in a science related discipline
- 7-10 years’ experience in health care field preferably with medical device experience
- Solid, demonstrable understanding of FDA regulations
Nice To Haves
- Experience hosting audits with major medical device manufacturers and government agencies (USDA, DEA, DOD)
- Experience with Master Control or similar quality system
- Experience with OECD regulations
Responsibilities
- Develop processes and procedures to maintain compliance with FDA regulations.
- Lead internal and external audits.
- Monitor current trends of regulatory agencies and deliver proactive approach to ensure inspection readiness and high quality results to Sponsors.
- Understand the impact of changes on the organizations’ quality system and working with Testing Facility Management (TFM) and the Institutional Official (IO) to drive change.
- Communicate regulatory updates (especially to TFM and IO).
- Provide vendor oversight to ensure compliance.
- Define quality goals and strategic initiatives for the organization and working with TFM to achieve them.
- Conduct functional area review to provide TFM with assessment of organizational risk to quality.
- Lead FDA audits and other authorities and client audits as needed.
- Manage CAPA processes and ensure timely execution of all phases.
- Advise other quality systems such as equipment, calibration, preventive maintenance.
- Oversee document control group and training requirements with timely execution.
- Deploy relevant training to staff.
- Responsible for establishing and compiling metrics related to quality system areas.
- Identify and oversee continual improvement efforts.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
