Senior Quality Engineer - Design Quality Assurance

Engineer III, DQA

Additional Locations:  N/A

Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.

 

About the role:

 

Develops, establishes, and maintains quality engineering methodologies, systems, and practices which meet BSC, customer, and regulatory requirements.   Serves as a Quality representative to improve awareness, visibility, communication on quality initiatives to support departmental, functional, site, divisional and corporate quality goals, and priorities.  Provides focused quality engineering support within new product development, operational, or system/services support.

 

Key Responsibilities:

 

• Be a part of core project team and lead the quality engineering across the entire development cycle.
• Support the development of CTQ’s, design input and output documents.
• Support the fixture qualification and test method validation.
• Support the development and implementation of design verification and validation plans with project design lead.
• Support product risk management, usability, reliability and design validation efforts for new product development and design change projects.
• Participate and implement tools like Design of Experiments (DOE’s), FMEA sessions, Risk Management and ensure compliance to CTQ’s and safety requirements.
• Responsible for co-leading stage gate reviews and signatory on all PDP document approvals
• Manage electronic document control and version control on all project related documents.
• Ensure adherence to the quality systems and design assurance SOPs and Boston Scientific’s PLCP.
• Support usability, reliability, testing, verification and validation testing – internal and local vendors.
• Provide statistical testing and reliability plans.
• Work closely with regulatory team to drive alignment of project documentation and regulatory requirements.
• Provide quality and regulatory compliance guidance as needed to product development or design change project teams to assure country specific compliance to the laws and regulations of the targeted market for distribution.
• Ensure appropriate Project/Sustaining Quality Deliverables are created and properly executed (e.g. Project Design & Development Plan, Risk Management Plan, Hazard Analysis, Use and Design FMEA, Field Assessment Plan, and Software Validation Plan if applicable).
• Co-Lead CAPA efforts, and apply sound, systematic problem-solving methodologies identifying, prioritizing, communicating, and driving resolution of quality issues (e.g., 5 why’s analysis, Is-Is Not analysis, and Six Sigma problem solving methodologies).
• Devise and support the implementation of effective quality assurance, process controls, statistical analyses, and metrics that assure products meet or exceed internal quality as well as statutory requirements.
• Participate in ISO13485 site certification for the R&D center

 

Requisition ID: 626005

 

Boston Scientific transforms lives through innovative medical technologies that improve the health of patients around the world. As a global medical technology leader for more than 45 years, we advance science for life by providing a broad range of high-performance solutions that address unmet patient needs and reduce the cost of healthcare. Our portfolio of devices and therapies helps physicians diagnose and treat complex cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive, oncological, neurological and urological diseases and conditions. Learn more at www.bostonscientific.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

Experience Level

Senior Level