Quality Engineering Manager

Becton Dickinson; Nuevo León; On-site; MXN 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Becton Dickinson (BD) is seeking an experienced Quality Assurance leader to guide a team of quality engineers through the full product lifecycle, from NPI to commercialization. You will ensure design validation, risk management, and process validation align with the QMS and regulatory requirements.

You will oversee disposal decisions for non-conforming products, manage change controls, and support audits and senior management reviews.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or sciences.
• Minimum 5 years in a medical device company or high-volume regulated manufacturing.
• Minimum 5 years in QA roles with decision-making or leadership.
• ASQ-CQE certification desirable.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification or higher desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of quality engineers to support the entire product lifecycle, ensuring quality requirements are defined and implemented during the NPI and transfers.
• Oversee disposal decisions (use-as-is, rework, scrap) with risk assessment and QMS compliance.
• Plan and coordinate quality engineering activities to meet plant KPIs.
• Guide statistical analyses (DOE, Gage R&R, hypothesis testing) for process development and validation.
• Manage site validation program, IQ/OQ/PQ activities, and validation status of processes and equipment.
• Support audits, management reviews, and quality metrics reporting.
• Drive continuous improvement to enhance process capability and data reliability.

Skills

Quality Assurance

DOE

Gage R&R

Process validation

CAPA

Regulatory compliance

Leadership

Risk management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or sciences

ASQ-CQE certification desirable

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt desirable

Tools

QMS

Job description

We are the people who give possibilities purpose BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health™ is our Purpose, and it’s no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us—from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per year to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent technical degree in sciences (biology, physics, etc.).
• Minimum 5 years of experience in a medical device company or in a high-volume regulated manufacturing environment.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in Quality Assurance roles with impact on decision-making and/or in supervision/leadership or other related functions
• ASQ-CQE certification is desirable.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification or higher is desirable

Main Responsibilities

• Lead a team of quality engineers to support the entire product lifecycle, ensuring that quality requirements are defined and implemented during the NPI, including design validation, risk management, and process validation to achieve readiness for commercialization; leading quality activities in product and process transfers ensuring equivalence, validation and alignment with the QMS; provide oversight of support activities through effective change control, performance monitoring, and continuous improvement; maintain compliance with SIB initiatives by managing revalidations and ensuring documentation accuracy and data integrity.
• Ensure the proper disposal of non-conforming products, through technical review and approval of disposal decisions (use-as-is, rework, sort, or scrap), ensuring compliance with Quality Management System (QMS) procedures, regulatory requirements and assessment of associated risks.
• Plan and coordinate quality engineering activities and resource requirements according to the goals and needs of the plant to meet established KPIs.
• Ensure that Quality Engineers support, develop, and review, as appropriate, statistical analyses, including process capability studies, Design of Experiments (DOE), hypothesis testing, Gage R&R, regression analysis, and other applicable techniques, to enable effective process development and validation activities
• Manage the site validation program, as well as the personnel in charge of it (Site Validation Lead), including resource allocation, prioritization of IQ/OQ/PQ activities, periodic revalidations, and ensuring the validity of the validated status of processes, equipment, software, and testing methods.
• Provide support to other multidisciplinary functions within the organization and approve validation activities (IQ/OQ/PQ, process validation, software and testing methods).
• Maintain a comprehensive view on the plant floor of the processes that generate product quality problems, initiate corrective actions when necessary, and follow up on complaints and quality rejections.
• Interact with intercompany areas, business units (BUs), Legal, Manufacturing, Quality and Regulatory Affairs: o Evaluate products returned for alleged non-conformity.
• Provide support during internal and external audits
• Prepare and provide support for Management Review meetings and other formal quality forums, ensuring accurate reporting, data analysis, and effective communication of performance and quality metrics.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the Quality function through the implementation, standardization and optimization of inspection technologies, ensuring improvements in process capability, data reliability and operational performance.
• Lead the customer complaints area, ensuring DHR investigations, review of product risk documentation, and timely responses. Ensure that quality technicians/engineers analyze customer complaint trends to initiate CAPAs when necessary
• Promote a culture of quality in the Juárez area, Implement and promote quality initiatives in support to Business excellence programs
• Mandatory compliance with general and safety procedures applicable to the position
• Authority to stop any process that is causing quality problems
• Authority to release or retain suspected or defective products or materials.

Why Join Us?

To find purpose in the possibilities, we need people who can see the bigger picture, who understand the human story that underpins everything we do. We welcome people with the imagination and drive to help us reinvent the future of healthcare. At BD, you’ll discover a culture in which you can learn, grow and thrive. We believe that when people connect in person, we learn faster, collaborate more deeply, and build a stronger culture. Join us and enjoy a culture where face-to-face collaboration supports your learning, your progress, and your success. To learn more about BD visit https://bd.com/careers.

Becton, Dickinson, and Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, marital or domestic or civil union status, familial status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, disability, military eligibility or veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.

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Primary Work Location

MEX Juarez Homecare Additional Locations MEX Juarez Healthcare Work Shift BD is a leading global medical technology company that creates medical technology, devices and laboratory equipment for a variety of needs across the healthcare continuum. At BD, we are looking for candidates who possess passion, innovative solutions and a commitment to our one mission of improving access to groundbreaking medical and biotechnology services for people near and far, delivering state-of-the-art technology and cutting-edge research in the battle to fight and cure infectious diseases. With a global reach that extends across 50 countries worldwide, our network of professionals collaborates on effective measures to deliver enhanced patient quality such as lower health care delivery costs, improved health care and safety, and expanded health care for all.