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QA Eng Manager

Req # 203632 Location São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil Job Category Quality Date posted 06/10/2026
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Overview

This is where you make a difference in our patients’ safety. As a member of the Baxter Quality team, you will play an essential part in our mission of saving and sustaining lives. Quality is important throughout the entire product lifecycle and works collaboratively with all areas of the organization. Because Quality touches everything Baxter does, a role in Quality provides many opportunities for growth, learning and a successful career that has a daily impact on people’s lives.

  • Support for Parents

  • Continuing Education/ Professional Development

  • Employee Heath & Well-Being Benefits

  • Paid Time Off

  • 2 Days a Year to Volunteer

Success Profile

What makes a successful Quality team member at Baxter? Take a look at some of the top traits we’re looking for and see if you’re a fit.

  • Detail Oriented
  • Continuous Learner
  • Courageous
  • Collaborative
  • Critical Thinker
  • Influential

QA Eng Manager

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This is where your work makes a difference.

At Baxter, we believe every person—regardless of who they are or where they are from—deserves a chance to live a healthy life. It was our founding belief in 1931 and continues to be our guiding principle. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today, tomorrow, and beyond.

Our Baxter colleagues are united by our Mission to Save and Sustain Lives. Together, our community is driven by a culture of courage, trust, and collaboration. Every individual is empowered to take ownership and make a meaningful impact. We strive for efficient and effective operations, and we hold each other accountable for delivering exceptional results.

Here, you will find more than just a job—you will find purpose and pride. 

This is where your work makes a difference.

At Baxter, we believe every person—regardless of who they are or where they are from—deserves a chance to live a healthy life. It was our founding belief in 1931 and continues to be our guiding principle. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today, tomorrow, and beyond.

Our Baxter colleagues are united by our Mission to Save and Sustain Lives. Together, our community is driven by a culture of courage, trust, and collaboration. Every individual is empowered to take ownership and make a meaningful impact. We strive for efficient and effective operations, and we hold each other accountable for delivering exceptional results.

Here, you will find more than just a job—you will find purpose and pride.

Your Role at Baxter

This is where your creativity addresses challenges!

As QA Engineering Lead you provide Quality Assurance leadership and oversight for engineering-related quality processes across medical device, solutions, and pharmaceutical manufacturing sites. This role ensures that validation, change control, metrology, utilities/facilities, and operational excellence activities are executed in compliance with applicable medical device, pharmaceutical, and combination-product regulations and standards, while enabling efficient, reliable, and scalable operations. The role partners closely with Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, IT, Regulatory Affairs, and Quality teams to ensure that technical changes, systems, and infrastructure remain compliant, well controlled, and aligned with business objectives and patient safety requirements across regulated environments.

What you'll be doing

  • Provide QA oversight and governance for validation, change control, and lifecycle management of equipment, processes, utilities, facilities, and computerized systems across medical device and pharmaceutical operations, ensuring compliance with global regulatory standards (FDA, ISO, EU GMP, ICH, GAMP).
  • Review and approve validation, qualification, calibration, and change control documentation, ensuring systems remain in a state of control and risks to product quality, patient safety, and compliance are effectively managed.
  • Support new product introductions, technology transfers, automation, digital solutions, and facility expansions, partnering with Engineering and Operations to embed Quality principles into continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Oversee critical utilities, facilities, and metrology programs, ensuring systems are qualified, maintained, monitored, and inspection‑ready, with appropriate mitigation of deviations and out‑of‑tolerance conditions.
  • Act as a key Quality partner during audits and inspections, drive standardization and simplification of QA Engineering processes, provide coaching and guidance to technical teams, and influence quality outcomes in a matrixed environment.

What you'll bring

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Pharmacists with postgraduate qualifications in Engineering and relevant experience in Quality, Validation, and regulated environments, or similar experience.
  • 7+ years of experience in Quality, Engineering, Validation, or Manufacturing within regulated medical device and/or pharmaceutical environments
  • Strong working knowledge of validation/CSV, change control, utilities and facilities qualification, and quality systems
  • Experience supporting regulatory inspections and audits

Preferred

  • Experience with FDA QMSR / 21 CFR 820, ISO 13485, 21 CFR 210/211, EU GMP, ICH Q7, and GAMP 5
  • Experience supporting combination products or multi-platform manufacturing sites
  • Familiarity with lean, continuous improvement, or business excellence systems in regulated environments

Equal Employment Opportunity

Baxter is an equal opportunity employer. Baxter evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.

Reasonable Accommodations

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Hear from Our Employees

Our company is enriched by a diverse population of individuals in more than 100 countries that work to solve, innovate, manufacture and drive better healthcare options for patients around the world.

Meet Christelle, Senior Quality Manager in Malta

“I was an Engineering Graduate with a Master's in Business Administration, and was more inclined toward working with people than with machines. When I came across an opportunity to work with Baxter as a Quality Engineer, it was the perfect combination: a manufacturing environment and a role that required me to collaborate with multiple teams daily. Baxter's mission of saving and sustaining lives gives me all the purpose and fulfilment I need.”

Meet Lorena, Senior QA Associate in London, UK

“I am registered pharmacist in the UK with experience with drug products and final product release. I am very dedicated to my work and accurate in details to ensure correct assessment is provided to our customers to ensure patients' safety.”

Meet Gary, Quality Research Manager in Singapore

“I have always enjoyed working at Baxter and I find here to be a great place to work! Management truly cares for you, and invests time and resources to support your career goals and aspirations. My current role provides me the opportunity to work with culturally diverse teams, bringing different talents together, learning from one another and working toward a common goal and mission.”

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