Quality Manager
Recruiter: Consilium Recruit
Location: Hereford
Salary: Competitive
Application date: 24th Sep 2024
A dynamic healthcare organization committed to delivering high-quality medical products is seeking a Quality Manager. The team is passionate about improving user outcomes and ensuring compliance with industry standards. This is a permanent role based onsite, Monday to Friday.
The Role
An exciting opportunity has arisen within our team for a Quality Manager, experienced in the manufacturing sector, ideally healthcare products or similar.
As the Quality Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring the successful delivery and management of the Quality Management System and accreditations.
Key Responsibilities include: developing, implementing, and maintaining quality policies and procedures – additionally you will oversee compliance with ISO 13485 and ISO 9001 standards.
The Quality Manager will collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive continuous improvement and conduct internal audits and manage external audits. You will play an active role in monitoring product quality throughout the lifecycle and ensure adherence to regulatory requirements such as IPQC, FQC and OQC including addressing non-conformance issues.
The Quality Manager will play a key role in promoting the culture of health, safety, environmental and quality excellence across the manufacturing sites.
The Person
The successful candidate will possess a higher-level qualification such as degree or HND (or equivalent experience) in a relevant field such as Engineering, Biomedical Science, or a similar STEM discipline.
You will have proven experience in quality assurance or regulatory roles within medical device manufacturing or similar high quality manufacturing environment with regular interface with the engineering drawing content.
The Quality Manager will have solid knowledge of ISO 13485 and other relevant quality standards and be able to work collaboratively with a multi-skilled team across two manufacturing sites (based within a few miles of each other).
You will be well versed in root cause analysis and enjoy working in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.