Quality Systems Engineer - QMS Focus
At Medartis, we combine innovative solutions with skilled professionals to be the provider of choice in orthopaedics. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, the Medartis Group is one of the world's leading manufacturers and providers of medical devices for the surgical fixation of bone fractures in the upper and lower extremities, as well as the craniomaxillofacial region. The company employs around 1,400 people across its 13 locations and sells its products in over 50 countries worldwide.
The Quality Systems Engineer contributes to the Quality Management System team in the functional areas of quality systems, quality assurance, and quality improvement.
The Quality Systems Engineer contributes to the Quality Management System team in the functional areas of quality systems, quality assurance, and quality improvement.
Your responsibilities
- Act as Corrective Action/Preventive Action (CAPA) administrator by facilitating the (CAPA) system. This includes initiating CAPA’s, overseeing timelines, managing the CAPA log, reporting CAPA related metrics and leading CAPA review board meetings to ensure compliance.
- Manage external audit activities including certification (notified body) audits and customer (contract manufacturing) audits. This consists of taking an active role in the audit process, as well as acting as liaison with external parties, scheduling audits, organizing and facilitating resources, communicating audit responses, maintaining the audit schedule and reporting all audit related metrics.
- Facilitate all internal audit activities. This includes planning, assigning resources, managing the internal audit schedule, and reporting audit related metrics.
- Lead Quarterly Quality Reviews (QQR) used to monitor quality management system (QSM) products and process’. Responsibilities include gathering metric data from various parts of the company, scheduling and facilitating the quarterly meeting to measure and review company performance as it relates to the QMS.
- Gather and manage KPI/metric data used to measure the QMS.
- Assist quality management representative (QMR) in conducting annual quality management reviews per ISO 13485:2016.
- Create and/or update procedures and work instructions to capture improvements to quality management system process’.
- Assist subject matter experts in the development, authoring and releasing of procedures and work instructions used to define their processes.
- Understand, utilize and assist in maintaining document controls and change controls within the QMS.
- Ensure processes and documentation comply with quality system regulations.
Your qualifications
- BS in Engineering or related field preferred, or equivalent in experience and training
- Working knowledge of the medical device regulated industry, to include ISO 13485 and FDA 21CFR820 regulations
- Basic knowledge of statistical and engineering principals
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Strong proficiency in root cause analysis to include tools and methodology
- Proficient in Microsoft Office applications
What we offer
This is an integral, responsible and diversified role with a focus on quality and service provision in a rapidly growing, international company. We look forward to receiving your complete application.
For further information please visit our Website www.medartis.com.
We look forward to receiving your complete online application.
We look forward to receiving your complete online application.
