Senior Quality Engineer

Danaher Corporation; Wrexham; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Cytiva, part of Danaher’s global family, seeks a capable leader to drive quality and continuous improvement within our operations. You will mentor and align Quality Engineers, guide investigations, and ensure robust processes that reduce defects and enhance customer satisfaction.

This role focuses on cross-functional collaboration, data-driven decision making, and driving corrective actions across production and QA environments to support our life sciences missions.

Qualifications

• Ability to lead others within cross-functional teams.
• Logical, inquiring approach to work.
• Motivated and able to meet deadlines.
• Self-directed, prioritising work with initiative.
• Effective decision-making and communication.

Responsibilities

• Support and lead operations teams and Engineers in evaluating, trending, and reporting non-conformances for priority setting and process improvements.
• Develop, manage and maintain development plans for the Quality Engineers in QA.
• Review production environment to identify non-conformity and areas for compliance improvements.
• Coordinate and report failure investigations and corrective/preventive actions; review effectiveness.
• Collaborate with Engineers to collect, analyse, and report data on rejects to drive improvements and align inspections with customer needs.

Skills

Leadership in cross-functional teams

Analytical thinking

Deadline driven

Initiative

Effective communication

Job description

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 (https://danaher.com/our-businesses) 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.

Learn about the Danaher Business System (https://www.danaher.com/how-we-work/danaher-business-system) which makes everything possible.

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 identif y common threads aimed at a continuous reduction in internal non- c onformance 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

Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

For more information, visit www.danaher.com .