Quality Engineering Manager

About Pro Edge Dental Water Labs

Pro Edge Dental Water Labs is a team of selfless builders. By putting our focus on the success of customers, we've created a healthy, quickly-growing, and dynamic company. Our ~60 team members have taken on a significant challenge: transform compliance in the dental practice – often a distinct pain for our customers – into a culture of shared purpose for the safety of patients and staff.

By keeping our promises and developing value-based solutions, we've created an emerging brand in dental.

Because of that, Pro Edge, “good work” is table stakes. What we’re building requires something rarer from its leaders: those who choose the harder path for the sake of the team, who continue to grow even when they’re already good, and who bring the kind of relentless pursuit of delivering concrete value to the customer, not just building a stronger resume.

This is a place for low-ego, high-agency, problem-solvers who think deeply and execute to excellence. If you’re looking for a role where you can own meaningful problems, build with a great team, and transform an entire category through trust... keep reading.

Pro Edge is seeking a Quality Engineering Manager to shift quality from compliance inspection and documentation to defect prevention and process control within 12 months, driving operational consistency, fewer defects, and stronger audit outcomes. This position focuses primarily in quality engineering and process improvement (primary focus), serves as the effectiveness owner of the Quality Management System (QMS), and provides regulatory oversight aligned to FDA and ISO standards.

This is not a compliance-first role, but a quality-first role. Reporting to the President of the organization, you’ll have significant responsibility to deliver measurable improvements in process reliability, powers our product pipeline, and transforms quality into a competitive advantage. If you're a systems-thinking problem-solver who dissects root causes with tenacity and champions proactive quality every day, leading with true humility, transparency, and collaboration...

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• Lead the validation and successful launch of new Class I medical devices, ensuring 100% compliance with FDA general controls and ISO 13485 standards
• Implement 3‑5 targeted process optimizations (e.g., Lean/Six Sigma tools) that reduce process variability and improve first-pass yield by 15‑25% by 18 months.
• Drive process‑related non-conformances and defects to near 0 through targeted engineering improvements and root cause analyses by 18 months.
• Support regulatory compliance for new products and ongoing operations, achieving zero major findings in internal/external audits by 18 months.
• Quality is fully integrated into decision-making across operations, engineering, and supply chain to customer/patient benefit.

• Problem-solver – Candidate is disciplined with root cause to improve systems rather than shifting problems
• Results – Candidate has a strong record of continuous improvement leading to better business outcomes
• Collaborative – Candidate seeks out others' ideas and critiques, while not needing consensus
• Entrepreneurial Grit – Candidate works hard, gets hands dirty, and moves things forward even with setbacks
• High standards – Candidate is unsatisfied with checking regulatory boxes rather than pursuing excellence and prevention

• Humble – Candidate is team-first and self-improving
• Transparent – Candidate tells the truth even when it may put them in a vulnerable position
• Customer-focus – Candidate recognizes the work is for a customer and patient's benefit, and puts them in the heart of every process
• Discerning – Candidate makes consistently wise decisions
• Smart – Candidate can clearly communicate their thinking, distilling, and learning

This is an in-office role with a core schedule of 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Monday through Friday, with hybrid flexibility. Pro Edge genuinely cares about the health of all team members. All of us are real people with real lives – appointments, kids get sick, moments…