Quality Engineering

Country

United States

Shift

1st

Werfen is a growing, family-owned, innovative company founded in 1966 in Barcelona, Spain. We are a worldwide leader in specialized diagnostics in the areas of Hemostasis, Acute Care Diagnostics, Transfusion, Autoimmunity, and Transplant. Through our Original Equipment Manufacturing (OEM) business line, we research, develop, and manufacture customized assays and biomaterials. We operate directly in 30 countries and in more than 100 territories through distributors.

Our Headquarters and Technology Centers are located in the US and Europe, and our workforce is more than 7,000 strong.

Our success comes from a specific focus in these rapidly evolving diagnostic areas, our commitment to customers, and our dedication to innovation and quality. We’re passionate about providing healthcare professionals the most valuable and complete solutions to improve hospital efficiency and enhance patient care.

The Staff Quality Engineer works with cross‑functional teams to ensure and maintain product safety and efficacy. The position uses technical knowledge and experience to ensure strategies for product and processes meet regulatory and business objectives. This role advises management on systems and techniques to maintain efficient and compliant systems.

• Teamwork: Is Quality Engineering lead on design and development projects, product and process changes, risk management, root cause investigations, validations, process capability, and trend analysis. Provides team with strategic and tactical guidance related to Quality Management procedures for design and development, production, and post‑production (post‑market) activities. Drives improvement projects and initiatives that reduce systemic manufacturing defects; improve quality systems. Independently lead multiple long‑term projects.
  
  Interact with supervisor as required on activities, issues, or turning points. Models effective team dynamics behavior. Encourages and empowers others to achieve project outcomes. Provide training and guidance to junior members of the team.
• Product and Process Life Cycle: Represent Quality Engineering in Design and Development activities through launch, Product and Process Changes, sustaining On‑Market safety and efficacy, and Post‑Market Surveillance endeavors. Provide Quality‑consensed subject matter expertise and ensure the delivery of objective evidence using scientific methodology which is technical validity, accuracy, complete, and comply to applicable regulations and standards in QMS areas such as product and process development, specification development, acceptance methods development, design transfer, design validation, process validation, risk management, product realization, packaging and shipping validation, product launch, and nonconformance assessment.
• Risk Management: Acquire and maintain current knowledge of applicable requirements for risk management activities and produce audit ready Risk File documents in compliance with the requirements of current international risk management standards and regulations. Coordinate evaluation of new and emerging risk standards Assist in the development of plans for meeting and complying with new risk regulations, guidances, and standards.
• Quality Science and Engineering: Perform independent quality review and evaluation of change orders including related data for scientific approach, presence of supporting objective evidence, technical validity, accuracy, completeness, and compliance to applicable regulations and standards. Provide guidance on identified gaps and collaborates to determine remediation activities. Apply critical analytical thinking in the investigation process specifically during root cause analysis, risk assessment evaluation and determination corrective and preventive actions determination to guarantee gaps are properly addressed.
  
  Provide consensed Quality input into process investigations using a systematic approach to ensure root causes and CAPAs are aligned. Collect and analyze defined quality metrics, quality‑related data to identify issues or trends.
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