NPI Quality Specialist
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Job Location:
Manchester, CT - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
The New Product Introduction (NPI) Quality Specialist supports design transfer activities and quality operations in an innovative fast-paced medical device-manufacturing environment. This role focuses on coordinating the development review and maintenance of control plans risk management files validation protocols process capability studies; and other QMS documentation to support initial qualification and commercial launch of medical products. The role will have direct interaction with suppliers engineers and manufacturing personal.
How you will make an impact as a NPI Quality Specialist:
One hour from the beach Boston and the mountains the historic Amoskeag Millyard once housed the largest textile mills in the world. It is now home to DEKA Research & Development where we are taking the same innovation and cutting-edge technology into the modern age.
Behind DEKAs brick walls sits a team of professionals who strive to make a difference every day through thoughtful engineering design and manufacturing. Here at DEKA some of the most innovative and life-changing products of our time are created and new ideas are always welcome and explored.
How you will make an impact as a NPI Quality Specialist:
- Collaborate with suppliers to ensure that tooling and manufacturing processes meet quality standards and specifications for medical products.
- Develop and maintain relationships with suppliers to ensure timely delivery of validated tooling equipment and components.
- Work with suppliers to address non-conformances related to tooling or materials and develop corrective actions in collaboration with engineering and validation teams.
- Coordinate tooling qualifications ensuring tools meet all performance safety and regulatory standards before product manufacturing.
- Ensure process changes (e.g. tool changes equipment upgrades) are assessed and validated appropriately to maintain product quality.
- Communicate effectively with validation personnel to align on protocols testing and timelines for process and tooling validation activities.
- Act as a liaison between suppliers engineering and quality teams to ensure alignment and resolution of issues related to tooling and process validation.
- Ensure proper documentation of tooling qualifications process validations and supplier-related activities according to standards
- Coordinate the Review and approval of documentation related to tooling and process changes ensuring traceability and compliance with design history files (DHF) and production records.
- Provide regular updates on the status of NPI tooling and process validation activities including any challenges or risks.
- Track and report the status of validation milestones tooling approvals and supplier progress ensuring adherence to project timelines.
- Bachelors degree with 1 year of supplier management experience or 5 years of supplier management experience
- Stable career progression and project coordination and/or project management experiencethrough multiple project phases
- Experience working in an engineering or technical environment
- Experience with JIRA
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Word & Excel
- Strong computer skills with databases and software applications
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrated aptitude for learning technical information quickly and accurately
- Ability to shift priorities efficiently in as fast paced environment
One hour from the beach Boston and the mountains the historic Amoskeag Millyard once housed the largest textile mills in the world. It is now home to DEKA Research & Development where we are taking the same innovation and cutting-edge technology into the modern age.
Behind DEKAs brick walls sits a team of professionals who strive to make a difference every day through thoughtful engineering design and manufacturing. Here at DEKA some of the most innovative and life-changing products of our time are created and new ideas are always welcome and explored.
Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Quality Assurance
- FDA Regulations
- Data Collection
- Food Safety Experience
- ISO 9001
- Mobile Devices
- Root cause Analysis
- Quality Systems
- OSHA
- Food Processing
- Quality Management
- cGMP
About Company
DEKA Research and Development is perhaps best known for its founder and president Dean Kamen -- and for the Segway Personal Transporter he invented. DEKA is a design and engineering firm that develops innovative technologies, many of them in the field of medical devices. The Segway it ... View more
