Quality Engineering Manager

Make a meaningful difference to patients around the world. At Edwards Lifesciences facilities around the world, our Manufacturing teams create the tools, technologies, and devices that transform patients’ lives. As part of our sewing, assembly, delivery, and distribution teams, your attention to detail and commitment to continuous improvement will help us turn innovative ideas into reality. Your purpose-driven work will help leave lasting and positive impacts on patient lives.

The Role

The primary purpose of this job is to act as the communication cord between the manager and the employees. Oversees quality system metrics and data providing work direction for Quality Engineers and Quality Technicians to support and maintain quality management system, risk management and quality control plans. Responsible and directs activities for one or various functions within the quality department. Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to the following areas: Quality Engineering, Quality Operations, Quality Projects. Also collaborates in the process design and design transfer activities ensuring that adequate systems are properly validated and qualified to ensure to meet product requirements.

How Will You Make an Impact?

• Supervise and mentor quality operations engineers and technicians.

• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to conduct investigations of non-conformances and recommend corrective and preventive actions, audits, validations and in process changes.

• Promote multifunctional team approach and Edwards cultural beliefs while ensure that expected project output meet the Quality System requirements.

• Responsible for leading multifunctional teams to develop the quality planning through risk assessment activities, creating and maintaining files including Process Map, FMEA and others applicable documents.

• Ensures that direct reports are appropriately trained for their respective job functions

• Review the adequacy and correctness of PMAPs, FMEAs, Control Plans, AQP, validations (protocols and reports), documentation changes and non-conformance investigations.

• Lead and support in continuous improvement projects.

• Organizes QA resource assigned to functional area to meet goals and timings; coordinates prioritization of activities with area management.

• Other incidental duties

What You Will Need?

• Bachelor's Degree in in Science or Engineering field previous related experience Required

• Master's Degree or equivalent in in related field Preferred

• Experience working in a regulated industry Preferred

What Else We Require?

• Proven successful project management leadership skills

• Proven expertise in Microsoft Office Suite and related tools and systems

• Excellent problem-solving, organizational, analytical and critical thinking skills including high discretion/judgment in decision making

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and interpersonal relationship skills including negotiating and relationship management skills with ability to drive achievement of objectives

• Extensive understanding of Quality Engineering procedures while defining team operating standards and ensuring essential procedures are followed based on knowledge of own discipline

• Proven skill set to manage assigned team and provide coaching and feedback, including responsibility for all employee actions including hire/fire authority and partnering with HR on all aspects of employee relations

• Ability to develop and integrate metrics into the projects and operations that clearly demonstrate the value of Quality Engineering to the business

• Strict attention to detail

• Ability to interact professionally with all organizational levels and proactively escalate issues to appropriate levels of management in the organization

• Ability to work and excel within a fast paced, dynamic, and constantly changing work environment

• Adhere to all company rules and requirements (e.g., pandemic protocols, Environmental Health & Safety rules) and take adequate control measures in preventing injuries to themselves and others as well as to the protection of environment and prevention of pollution under their span of influence/control