Quality Engineer - Pordenone

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Become a Quality Assurance Specialist within our Pordenone, Italy Team!

This quality assurance role is responsible for supporting the quality related matters associated with support for medical video management system at Pordenone, a Baxter company. This position will also be responsible overseeing and/or assisting with a variety of Quality Engineering Functions. In addition, this position will work to provide the necessary data to make effective quality and business decisions, and implement sound, data-driven quality and business solutions that emphasize quality system compliance.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

• Drive product quality improvements and ensure product compliance to requirements and regulation. Work closely with Operations to identify and resolve production and quality system deficiencies.
• Participate in the improvement of the manufacturing process for existing products. Review and approve job instructions, inspection documents, bills of material and drawings.
• Work with design engineering to determine receiving inspection requirements of purchased components, finish products and enabling a smooth design transfer. Provide technical quality engineering support to receiving inspection.
• Manage non-conformance trouble-shooting operations to confirm and resolve part defects and associated documentation.
• Assist in development, review and approval of process and equipment validation/qualifications (IQ, OQ, & PQ).
• Participate in Corrective Action System activities including evaluation of failure investigation and corrective action plans.
• Ensure accurate and timely processing of all Quality Records along with the company’s regulatory compliance profile per EU MDR and 21CFR820 regulations.
• Partner with Sustaining Engineering and Research & Development for product and process change control documentation and specifications.
• Use quality tools and practices to establish approval criteria to ensure the identification of quality failure concerns for both internal and external manufactured parts and assemblies (e.g., FMEA (Failure Modes Effects Analysis). Ensure appropriate controls (key metrics) are implemented and satisfactorily completed for your responsibility.
• Interface with supplier’s engineering and quality organizations to efficiently address reported problems impacting functionality, quality, and regulatory requirements.
• Driving constantly supplier improvement initiative. Start and supervise corrective actions in cooperation with various departments of Videomed and the supplier.
• Carrying out root cause and error analyses in the event of non-conformity of products caused by suppliers.
• Keep suppliers in a state of control. E.g., through monthly verification of KPIs.
• Organize and conduct supplier audits to ensure that products and services meet EN ISO13485/ISO9001 and relevant regulatory standards.
• Execute and manage Supplier Quality projects, often in collaboration Sourcing Department.
• Participation in the negotiation of quality assurance agreements with suppliers.
• Leading new parts qualifications together with RnD and sourcing based on the SNAP process, including developing control plans that define supplier processes and identify risk areas.
• Review and agree on design development changes and supplier change requests to determine part requalification needs.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a field like Quality Management, Engineering, or Life Sciences.
• Demonstrated expertise in quality assurance or a related industry.
• Strong knowledge of regulatory requirements and quality standards in the healthcare industry.

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