What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Quality Engineer position at IntePros?
The Senior Quality Engineer will support the site’s transition to a new PLM system, ensuring quality system requirements, design controls, and compliance expectations are appropriately integrated and maintained throughout the implementation.
Day‑to‑day responsibilities include partnering with cross‑functional teams (Quality, R&D, Manufacturing, Regulatory, IT), reviewing and approving PLM-related workflows and documentation, supporting validation and risk activities, and ensuring continuity of Quality operations during the transition.
The role may also help offload routine Quality Engineering activities across the site to maintain operational stability.
Top 3 technical skills that are required for the role:
1-Quality Systems & Change Management: Strong experience with medical device quality systems, including change control, document control, nonconformance/CAPA processes, and quality record approval in compliance with ISO 13485 requirements.
2-PLM / Digital Quality Systems Implementation: Hands‑on experience supporting PLM or electronic quality systems (e.g., Windchill, Teamcenter, Agile, eQMS), including workflow review, data migration support, system validation activities, and user adoption.
3-Cross‑Functional Quality Execution: Proven ability to partner with Manufacturing, Engineering, Regulatory, and IT to assess quality impacts of system or process changes, support audits, and ensure continuity of site Quality operations.
Education Required: BS in Engineering(preferred) or Science
Years’ Experience Required: 5-7(flexible given work history)
Does this position require the candidate to be onsite or remote, if hybrid what does the onsite vs remote schedule look like? Yes, on-site 100%. Flexible as needed.
What product line will this person support? Sutures, Endomechanical Staplers, Intelligent Powered devices, Needles, Hemostatic Patch, Hernia Tackers(not all inclusive).
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned. Develops, modifies, applies and maintains quality standards and protocol for processing materials into partially finished or finished materials product.
Collaborates with engineering and manufacturing functions to ensure quality standards are in place.
Devises and implements methods and procedures for inspecting, testing and evaluating the precision and accuracy of products and production equipment.
Designs or specifies inspection and testing mechanisms and equipment; conducts quality assurance tests; and performs statistical analysis to assess the cost of and determine the responsibility for products or materials that do not meet required standards and specifications.
Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards and that documentation is compliant with requirements.
May specialize in the areas of design, incoming material, production control, product evaluation and reliability, inventory control and/or research and development as they apply to product or process quality.
SPECIALIST CAREER STREAM: Typically an individual contributor with responsibility in a professional discipline or specialty.
Delivers and/or manages projects assigned and works with other stakeholders to achieve desired results.
May act as a mentor to colleagues or may direct the work of other lower level professionals.
The majority of time is spent delivering and overseeing the projects from design to implementation while and adhering to policies, using specialized knowledge and skills normally acquired through advanced education (typically University).
DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS Autonomy: Seasoned individual contributor. Works independently under limited supervision to determine and develop approach to solutions.
Coaches and reviews the work of lower level specialists; may manage projects / processes.
Organizational Impact: May be responsible for entire projects or processes within job area. Contributes to the completion of work group objectives, through building relationships and consensus to reach agreements on assignments.
Innovation and Complexity: Problems and issues faced are difficult, and may require understanding of multiple issues, job areas or specialties .
Makes improvements of processes, systems or products to enhance performance of the job area. Analysis provided is indepth in nature and often provides recommendations on process improvements.
Communication and Influence: Communicates with senior internal and external customers and vendors.
Exchange information of facts, statuses, ideas and issues to achieve objective, and influence decisionmaking.
Leadership and Talent Management: May provide guidance, coaching and training to other employees within job area.
May manage projects, requiring delegation of work and review of others' work product
Required Knowledge and Experience: Requires advanced knowledge of job area combining breadth and depth, typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.
May have practical knowledge of project management. Requires a University Degree and minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience.
Day‑to‑day responsibilities include partnering with cross‑functional teams (Quality, R&D, Manufacturing, Regulatory, IT), reviewing and approving PLM-related workflows and documentation, supporting validation and risk activities, and ensuring continuity of Quality operations during the transition.
The role may also help offload routine Quality Engineering activities across the site to maintain operational stability.
Top 3 technical skills that are required for the role:
1-Quality Systems & Change Management: Strong experience with medical device quality systems, including change control, document control, nonconformance/CAPA processes, and quality record approval in compliance with ISO 13485 requirements.
2-PLM / Digital Quality Systems Implementation: Hands‑on experience supporting PLM or electronic quality systems (e.g., Windchill, Teamcenter, Agile, eQMS), including workflow review, data migration support, system validation activities, and user adoption.
3-Cross‑Functional Quality Execution: Proven ability to partner with Manufacturing, Engineering, Regulatory, and IT to assess quality impacts of system or process changes, support audits, and ensure continuity of site Quality operations.
Education Required: BS in Engineering(preferred) or Science
Years’ Experience Required: 5-7(flexible given work history)
Does this position require the candidate to be onsite or remote, if hybrid what does the onsite vs remote schedule look like? Yes, on-site 100%. Flexible as needed.
What product line will this person support? Sutures, Endomechanical Staplers, Intelligent Powered devices, Needles, Hemostatic Patch, Hernia Tackers(not all inclusive).
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned. Develops, modifies, applies and maintains quality standards and protocol for processing materials into partially finished or finished materials product.
Collaborates with engineering and manufacturing functions to ensure quality standards are in place.
Devises and implements methods and procedures for inspecting, testing and evaluating the precision and accuracy of products and production equipment.
Designs or specifies inspection and testing mechanisms and equipment; conducts quality assurance tests; and performs statistical analysis to assess the cost of and determine the responsibility for products or materials that do not meet required standards and specifications.
Ensures that corrective measures meet acceptable reliability standards and that documentation is compliant with requirements.
May specialize in the areas of design, incoming material, production control, product evaluation and reliability, inventory control and/or research and development as they apply to product or process quality.
SPECIALIST CAREER STREAM: Typically an individual contributor with responsibility in a professional discipline or specialty.
Delivers and/or manages projects assigned and works with other stakeholders to achieve desired results.
May act as a mentor to colleagues or may direct the work of other lower level professionals.
The majority of time is spent delivering and overseeing the projects from design to implementation while and adhering to policies, using specialized knowledge and skills normally acquired through advanced education (typically University).
DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS Autonomy: Seasoned individual contributor. Works independently under limited supervision to determine and develop approach to solutions.
Coaches and reviews the work of lower level specialists; may manage projects / processes.
Organizational Impact: May be responsible for entire projects or processes within job area. Contributes to the completion of work group objectives, through building relationships and consensus to reach agreements on assignments.
Innovation and Complexity: Problems and issues faced are difficult, and may require understanding of multiple issues, job areas or specialties .
Makes improvements of processes, systems or products to enhance performance of the job area. Analysis provided is indepth in nature and often provides recommendations on process improvements.
Communication and Influence: Communicates with senior internal and external customers and vendors.
Exchange information of facts, statuses, ideas and issues to achieve objective, and influence decisionmaking.
Leadership and Talent Management: May provide guidance, coaching and training to other employees within job area.
May manage projects, requiring delegation of work and review of others' work product
Required Knowledge and Experience: Requires advanced knowledge of job area combining breadth and depth, typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.
May have practical knowledge of project management. Requires a University Degree and minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience.