Quality Assurance Manager
Abbott
Westfield, Indiana
Full-Time
$99,300
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Quality Assurance Manager
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The Opportunity
This position works out of our Westfield, IN location in the Structural Heart division. Our business purpose is to restore health and improve quality of life by designing and providing device and management solutions for treating structural heart disease.
The Quality Assurance Manager is accountable for the Quality Operations Organization and leads a team of Quality supervisors/technicians/inspectors/specialists to support Manufacturing, Supplier Development, New Product Development, Distribution/Warehouse Value Added Services, and Quality Systems. Directs projects to ensure the manufacture of high quality product and to facilitate compliance with regulatory requirements.
What You'll Work On
Implements a staffing plan by identifying resource requirements, writing justifications for additional personnel, obtaining approval for changes, and coordinating the selection process with Human Resources.
Develops direct reports by securing appropriate training, assigning progressively challenging tasks, applying progressive disciplinary action as appropriate and conducting formal written and verbal performance reviews.
Monitors daily work operations and provides direction and guidance to, experienced exempt employees, or skilled nonexempt staff to achieve unit or project goals.
Interacts with internal and external stakeholders, by meeting regularly, responding to requests and explaining procedures as applicable.
Interprets and executes policies that affect work processes and personnel within the assigned organizational unit.
Contributes to the development of operational policies and procedures that affect personnel within the assigned organizational unit.
Monitors compliance with company policies and procedures (e.g. compliance with FDA, BSI, EEO regulations etc).
Contributes to the development and monitoring of area budgets through regular analysis of cost and spending.
Translates department goals into individual objectives and KPI.
Identifies, develops and implements processes to improve department performance.
Monitors departmental activities and records to ensure compliance.
Provides manufacturing support by defining work assignments directed to address manufacturing process defects and implement process improvements utilizing Quality System tools.
May also direct work assignments for quality control auditors.
May also direct Quality personnel to support new product development by defining projects focused on new products/process development based on coordination with management, project leaders, & engineers.
May own, author, review, approve, and support CAPA activities.
Supports, actively engages, and may escort internal and external auditors (BSI, FDA, KGMP, etc).
Implements improvements to Quality Systems and tools by directing personnel to gather data on existing quality tools, identify weaknesses, and research/select new tools based on findings.
Ensures sustaining support of Quality System and regulatory compliance by individually working quality system issues and by delegating project work for maintaining quality system capability.
Influence/Leadership:
Promotes the attainment of group goals by selecting, motivating, and training capable staff
Provides leadership to assigned units by communicating and providing guidance towards achieving group objectives
Planning/Organization:
Schedules human and material resources within a group or section in conjunction with near-term plans to ensure their availability
Carries out operations within an established budget.
Decision Making/Impact:
Assignments are expressed in the form of tasks and objective;
Generally makes day-to-day decisions within established guidelines regarding work processes or schedules in order to achieve site commitments and program objectives established by senior management
Consequences of erroneous decisions would normally result in serious delays to assigned projects or operations with substantial expenditure of time, human resources, and funds, without jeopardizing future business activity.
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
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The base pay for this position is
$99,300.00 – $198,700.00In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.