Quality Engineer

inSync Staffing

San Diego (CA)

On-site

USD 70,000 - 80,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Health savings account

Vision insurance

Flexible spending accounts

Life insurance

Job summary

A staffing agency in San Diego is seeking a Quality Engineer to support manufacturing quality activities. This role requires at least 2 years of experience in quality assurance within a regulated environment. Responsibilities include ensuring compliance with quality standards, supporting validation processes, and analyzing quality data. Candidates should have strong communication and problem-solving skills. This is a contract position with benefits including health and vision insurance.

Qualifications

2 to 4 years of experience in the quality assurance field in a regulated environment.
Experience with quality and process improvement methodologies.
Strong collaboration skills with global teams.

Responsibilities

Provide ongoing quality engineering support throughout the product life cycle.
Ensure manufacturing processes meet FDA and ISO requirements.
Trend, analyze, and report on quality data to improve products and processes.

Skills

Quality assurance

Communication skills

Problem-solving skills

Organizational skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in an engineering or scientific discipline

Tools

Microsoft Suite

ERP

SAP

Job description

This range is provided by inSync Staffing. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

$35.50/hr - $44.25/hr

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This position is responsible for manufacturing and product Quality activities including direct interaction with the Manufacturing and Process Engineering groups to support manufacturing sustaining activities, continuous improvement, and manufacturing capacity expansion. This role is within Mfg/Ops Quality organization and is accountable for driving change, establishing sustainable processes, improving products, providing actionable process and product data, supporting risk management activities and development of process/product validation strategies, and sharing best practices. This position works on problems of limited scope, follows standard practices and procedures in analyzing situations or data from which answers can be readily obtained, builds stable working relationships internally to effectively coordinate activities, completes assigned actions on time according to plan, proactively communicates challenges in advance of due date(s), requires strong communication, provides supporting data to project lead on risk in area of responsibility, delivers results, and applies quality regulations and standards (21CFR 820, ISO 13485, ISO 14971, IVDD, MDD) where appropriate.

Responsibilities:

- Provide ongoing quality engineering support throughout the product life cycle.

- Provide support to manufacturing functions for validation planning and transfer activities.

- Ensures adequacy of non-conformances and CAPA records, investigations, and corrective actions.

- Become familiar with the applicable technology to facilitate participation in technical discussions and risk-based decision making.

- Review equipment onboarding, calibration and preventative maintenance tickets and identify potential gaps for GMP compliance.

- Review change requests/notices/approvals for compliance to change requirements outlined in applicable WIs/Procedures.

- Develop and execute strategies to close gaps in an efficient, technical, and compliant manner.

- Coordinate issue resolution using a risk-based approach.

- Ensure manufacturing processes meet requirements of FDA and ISO.

- Trend, analyze, and report on quality data in order to improve product and process; develop recommendations based on data analysis.

- Provide management with status updates on assigned responsibilities and goals and escalate issues in a timely fashion.

- Collaborate with counterparts and cross-functional teams at other *** sites.

- Other activities as assigned.

Requirements:

- A minimum of 2 to 4 years of applied experience in the quality assurance field in a regulated environment; direct experience working in in-vitro diagnostic manufacturing is desirable.

- Strong communication, facilitation, planning, problem-solving, and organizational skills.

- Demonstrated effective collaboration skills with teams in multiple/global locations is desired.

- Demonstrated ability or aptitude to learn how to manage and lead change.

- Good judgment and decision-making skills; knows how to make trade-off decisions while balancing compliance and business impact.

- Experience with quality and process improvement methodologies and tools desired.

- Flexible, with ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with shifting and competing demands.

- Ability to execute strategy, approach, methods and actions on new assignments.

- Is considered a subject matter expert for assessing and resolving complex quality issues.

- Applied experience in meeting and applying quality regulations and standards (21CFR 820, ISO 13485, ISO 14971, MDD, IVDD, and CMDR) desired.

- Experience with data mining, trend analysis, and statistical analysis.

- Experience with electronic product life cycle (PLM), enterprise resource planning tools (ERP), manufacturing execution systems (MES).

- Experience with enterprise Quality System tools (e.g., electronic CAPA/NC, Change Management systems).

- Background in nanoimprint lithography and/or surface activation chemistry a plus.

- Listed responsibilities are an essential, but not exhaustive list, of the usual duties associated with the position. Changes to individual responsibilities may occur due to business needs.

Experience/Education:

- Bachelor’s degree in an engineering or scientific discipline.

- Work experience in a quality engineering role desirable.

Must Have:

supporting mfg. sustaining work - NC experience, quality system experience, required to know microsoft suite (word, teams, powerpoint)

Nice to Have:

strong nice to have - ERP, SAP knowledge; manufacturing experience is a plus; GMP or QMS experience

Benefits:(employee contribution)

Health insurance

Health savings account

Vision insurance

Flexible spending accounts

Life insurance

We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Pursuant to applicable state and municipal Fair Chance Laws and Ordinances, we will consider for employment-qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. For Los Angeles, CA applicants: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

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