Senior Quality Engineer - Orthopedics

Job description

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at jnj.com. As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit. Job Function: Quality Job Sub Function: Quality Assurance Job Category: Professional All Job Posting Locations: Ringaskiddy, Cork, Ireland Job Description: About Orthopaedics Fuelled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we’re developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments. Are you passionate about improving and expanding the possibilities of Orthopaedics? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how we heal? Our Orthopaedics teams help keep more than 6 million people moving each year while delivering clinical and economic value to surgeons and healthcare systems. Our teams build solutions for joint reconstruction; trauma and craniomaxillofacial; sports, extremities, and elective foot and ankle; spine; and robotics and digital surgery. Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech DePuy Synthes are looking for a Senior Quality Engineer - Orthopedics, to be based at the Ringaskiddy Cork site. As a Senior Quality Engineer, you will be: The Senior Quality Engineer plans, conducts and directs engineering projects or studies including complete projects requiring advanced knowledge of a specialized field.   They apply comprehensive and diverse knowledge of engineering principles and practices within broad assignment areas.  They may coordinate and direct activities of technical support staff and are responsible for technical development of assigned staff. The Senior Quality Engineer will utilize Quality Engineering tools and practices for the effective and efficient development, transfer and maintenance of products/processes throughout the product lifecycle. The incumbent will also utilize Quality Engineering principles and problem-solving skills to improve and maintain products/processes that are aligned with the overall Quality and Business vision. He/she will utilize appropriate risk management to prevent unanticipated failure modes and improve capability of processes.  This person will support processes in base business. The responsibilities and the impact YOU will have: In accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws/regulations and Corporate Johnson & Johnson, procedures and guidelines, this position: Business Improvements Support quality improvement initiatives such as process and product characterizations that lead to continuous / cost improvements. Review/analyse the effectiveness of PDCA, Six Sigma, Kaizen, Lean Techniques and/or other improvement tools and programs. Conduct benchmarking to develop more effective methods for improving quality Supports the development of quality engineering and quality compliance with the right skill sets for new product introductions, and product life cycle management. Compliance/Regulatory Review/analyse whether current product and processes (including actions or decisions conducted) are in compliance to standards such as the QSRs, ISO 13485, etc. Champions compliance to applicable Global Regulations and standards (e.g. QSRs, ISO, EN and Medical Device Directive (MDD) requirements) including providing support during internal and external audits. Conduct periodic line audits to assess for production controls such as lot segregation.  Review results of area audits to ensure that corrective and preventive actions are adequate. Partners with R&D and other cross functional partners to ensure the proper application of design controls, risk management and the investigation/correction of design failures/challenges. Supports new product introduction as part of design transfer. Lead and maintain Material Review Board. Conduct investigation, bounding, documentation, review and approval of non-conformances, CAPAs and customer complaints.  Escalation of quality issues as appropriate. Accountability and ownership for material identification, material segregation, classification of defect types including the successful application of these techniques on a day-to-day basis in manufacturing. Analyse/review effectiveness of preventive and corrective actions.  Review root cause investigation according to an established process. Accountability and ownership of Quality metrics including maintenance and reviewing of leading and lagging indicators of quality. Product/Process Qualification Approve IQ, OQ, PQ, TMV or Software Validation. Production/Process Controls including Control Plans Partners with J&J Global Supply chain, Finished Goods and material suppliers to ensure appropriate application of process validation, process control, and risk management; and the investigation/correction of process failures when needed. Conduct stakeholder analysis to ensure that customer CTQs are known and adequately addressed in control plan. Develop measurement systems/capabilities, destructive tests, non-destructive tests for manufacturing processes. Develop control plans consistent with product classification, potential defect types, defect frequency, severity, patient risk, process capability, process controls, etc. Develop, interpret and implement appropriate process monitoring and control methods consistent with the level of process/product risk. Collect data and execute/conduct various analytical/statistical analysis and interpretation as part of process improvements and day-to-day support. Develop, interpret and implement standard and non-standard sampling plans. Assess effectiveness of measurement tools, destructive tests, non-destructive tests, measurement system analysis. Accountability and ownership for sampling plans of all types including acceptability of risk given the product classification, potential defect types, defect frequency, severity, patient risk, process capability, process controls, etc. including assessing, applying and interpreting acceptance sampling standard for manufacturing data. Assess and interpret common versus special cause variation in manufacturing processing and determine adequacy of current process limits. Risk Mitigation Document, justify, review or analyse whether a proposed change to a process will not enhance the risk level in some way beyond capability of current controls or whether change will result in potential non-compliance to a required standard such as the QSRs. Assess the need for risk mitigation techniques given product classification, potential defect types, defect frequency, severity, patient risk, process capability, process controls, etc. Determine effectiveness of these techniques on previously implemented improvements. Strategic Ensures effective quality strategies are created for the validation of test methods, process and design. Responsible for communicating business related issues or opportunities to next management level. Responsible for following all Company guidelines related to Health, Safety and Environmental practices as applicable. For those who supervise or manage a staff, responsible for ensuring that subordinates follow all Company guidelines related to Health, Safety and Environmental practices and that all resources needed to do so are available and in good condition, if applicable. Responsi