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Quality Team Lead

  • Sector: Engineering
  • Contact Email: kevin.griffin@collinsmcnicholas.ie
  • Job Ref: 20822

This is an exciting opportunity for a Quality Team Lead to join a leading global medical device company based in Cork.

Key Roles & 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.

Education & Experience:

  • Requires a minimum level 8 qualification in a relevant Engineering / Science degree.
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
  • Ability to work as part of a team and meet targets/goals efficiently.
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Demonstrated decision making skills.
  • Minimum of 4+ years’ experience within a manufacturing environment.
  • People management experience is advantageous.
  • Strong knowledge of quality principles and the ability to utilize these methods in a manufacturing environment.

For a confidential discussion and more information on the role, please contact Kevin Griffin

Kevin Griffin

kevin.griffin@collinsmcnicholas.ie

(021) 2427108