Director of Quality Assurance

The Director of Quality Assurance plays an integral role in fostering a culture of quality, efficiency, and excellence, ensuring that quality and compliance are integrated into the day-to-day operations and long-term Quality strategy.

Requirements

• Identifies and eliminates risk to continuously improve customer satisfaction and product reliability
• Leads and steers Quality Assurance (QA) Department, including hires and mentors QA personnel, provides constructive and timely performance evaluations, and handles discipline of employees in accordance with company policy
• Leads implementation and continuous improvement of the company’s quality systems and facility validation
• Creates product quality documentation system by writing and updating quality assurance procedures
• Leads Quality System improvements, Investigations, CAPAs, Change Management, Document Control, Validation, and Auditing
• Responsible for oversight of site activities, assuring that products are manufactured in compliance with cGMP, FDA, and EU guidelines
• Documents authorship, reviews, and approves of SOPs, batch production and quality control (QC) records, certificates of analysis, method validations, and equipment qualifications
• Supports internal audits, client audits and regulatory inspections
• Provides support and oversight of Quality Management Review meetings
• Oversight of a broad range of documentation including, but not limited to User Requirements Specifications (URS), Functional and Design Specifications, Testing Protocols (IQ/OQ/PQ), Change Controls, and Risk Assessments
• Maintains product quality by enforcing quality assurance policies and procedures and government requirements
• Collaborates with other members of management to develop new product and engineering designs and manufacturing and training methods
• Prepares product and process quality reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends
• Defines and maintains a strong people management, training, and engagement culture to ensure a high and constantly improving right first-time rate in manufacturing and QC
• Manages the QA budget to ensure that resources are allocated appropriately and that all projects are completed on time and within budget

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Retirement account
• Health plans
• Basic life insurance
• Long-term disability insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Pet insurance