Senior Quality Engineer

Danaher Corporation; Truro; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

Cytiva, part of Danaher, is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to lead investigations, drive continuous improvement and ensure compliance across QA processes in our life sciences operations in Cornwall.

You will partner with production and engineering to analyze non-conformances, develop development plans for QA engineers, and implement corrective actions while maintaining cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Experience leading cross-functional teams in a QA environment.
• Strong data analysis and trend reporting skills.
• Ability to prioritize work and meet deadlines.
• Experience with QA and manufacturing audits.
• Excellent communication and decision-making.
• Ability to work autonomously and drive improvements.

Responsibilities

• Support and lead operations teams and engineers in evaluating, trending and reporting non-conformances to prioritise improvements.
• Develop, manage and maintain development plans for QA Engineers.
• Review production environment to identify non-conformity and improve compliance.
• Coordinate and report failure investigations and corrective/preventive actions; assess effectiveness.
• Collect, analyse and report data on rejects from routine production inspection and QC tests; establish priorities.
• Work with QA Specialists to ensure inspections and QC tests meet customer needs.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Data analysis

QA leadership

Non-conformances

Continuous improvement

Kaizen events

Job description

Senior Quality Engineer

2026-09-26T00:00:00

Location: Cornwall, Cornwall, GB, TR1 2AF

Full Time

2026-12-26T03:03:08.15

This job is with Danaher, an inclusive employer and a member of myGwork - the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community. Please do not contact the recruiter directly.

Bring more to life. Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology? At Cytiva, one of Danaher's 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we're all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact. You'll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher's system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact - innovating at the speed of life.

Working at Cytiva means being at the forefront of providing new solutions to transform human health. Our incredible customers undertake life-saving activities ranging from fundamental biological research to developing innovative vaccines, new medicines, and cell and gene therapies. At Cytiva you will be able to continuously improve yourself and us - working on challenges that truly matter with people that care for each other, our customers, and their patients. Take your next step to an altogether life-changing career.

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What you'll do:

• Support and Lead the operations teams and Engineers when required in the evaluation, trending and reporting of internal and external non-conformances to establish priorities and identify common threads aimed at a continuous reduction in internal non-conformance occurrences via internal or supplier process improvements.
• Develop, Manage and maintain the development plans for the Quality Engineers in QA.
• Actively review the production environment identifying non-conformity, areas to improve compliance
• Coordination and reporting of relevant failure investigations and subsequent corrective and preventive actions and reviewing effectiveness of these.
• Work with the Engineers to collect, analyse, trend and report data on rejects from routine production inspection and QC tests and related processes to establish improvement priorities and identify common threads aimed at a reduction in external complaints.
• Work with QA Specialists and others as appropriate to ensure that production inspections and QC tests are aligned with customer needs.

Who you are:

• Ability to lead others when working within a cross functional team.
• Logical, inquiring approach to work
• Must be motivated and able to work to deadlines
• Ability to work without supervision, using own initiative, prioritising work as appropriate whilst maintaining a cross-functional team approach.
• Able to make reasoned and objective decisions where necessary and communicate these in an effective manner.
• It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:
• Quality/Engineering Leadership
• Lead and Facilitate Kaizen events/improvement activities
• Conduct QMS and manufacturing audits

For more information, visit www.danaher.com.